Effect of music upon you - As an Aspie

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I have heard that music is felt to a great depth among Aspies. Tell me if this is so with you.

I am inspired by music, especially when I post. It transports me to another time and place. It stimulates my mind...well, it could just be the coffee...no...it is the music . It calms my body as it carries it along the rhythms. I LOVE this song. I've been listening to it, over and over, for hours. It speaks to me of love and life....of cooperation of people to a heroic level...of the great beauty and adventure that life is. I feel the crystal clarity and crispness of the winter air upon my skin. A light wind upon my face carrying the scent of fir trees and the wonderful fragrance of distant campfires and fireplaces. I see the images of happy families gathered around reminiscing well remembered events in their lives in the movie in my mind. The smiles illuminated on children's faces and the awe in their eyes as they dream of what is to be in their lives. The sweetness and purity of my son's face when he smiles and laughs.

Although I cannot stand noise....I LOVE music. During trying times (you know...one of those...beam me up Scotty... type of moments) , I always hear...no...feel... my favorite songs in the mp3 player of the mind; the sound of the Spanish Guitar soothing my soul, the highly coordinated orchestras bespeaking of the great cooperative capability of humans, lending hope for our future.

Colors also transport me, however, they must be the translucent colors of a prism or stained glass. When I see the right type of colors, I am so captivated...music starts playing and I am so comfortable...satisfied...and at the same time...somehow motivated. The same thing happens when after pondering a subjective problem of sorts...I can tell I have made the right decision when orchestras play my favorite music.

So, tell me of the effects of music upon your soul. Describe those images and feelings so all may enjoy, Load your favorite You Tube song so we may all be transported along with you.

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for me, listening to charlie balogh play the wurlitzer theatrical pipe organ [recordings] at organ stop pizza in mesa, AZ, takes me right there.

I sing. I love to sing. I express myself through song. My originality extends only to singing as myself and not imitating; I sing in my own voice, if I need to change notes I will and if something is outright silly I'll try to sing something better. But I can't write songs myself. I feel like I have a huge library of music in my head and I'm constantly taking things out of it to use. A collection of things other people have said and emotions other people have felt and I pick the ones that suit me, all the time. I rarely even finish singing a song from start to end, and I very much don't like singing for people - I've done it a handful of times - so I'll never be a performer except for myself.

It's difficult for me to think of a single tune which represents what music means to me, but it's certainly true that many of my favourite songs to sing are songs of love lost - often with a sinister edge - but then I'm a folkie at heart and folk songs are almost always about sex and/or death. Romeo & Juliet. The Werewolf. A Woman Like You. The Unquiet Grave. A Week Before Easter. Tam Lin. Matty Groves. Reynardine. Delilah. The Blacksmith. Blackwaterside. Katy Cruel. Tunnel of Love. If I Were a Carpenter. Caroline. And I dunno, another forty or fifty or a hundred I'm liable to sing a lot. ^^ Werewolf especially perturbs me. I love the song, and judging by the number of artists who've covered it - I have recordings by four different groups and there's plenty more - it has a wide appeal, but it's a troubling song to have as a favourite.

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Kuma, what you describe fits Synesthesia.

I love music myself. It just takes me away.. it's almost meditational... But for some reasons not quite.
I have favourite songs, and more get added to my list as time goes by, and the one's i've loved, i'll most likely always love (unless they represent something that later I reject.. ideas, beliefs and the like that is) But for the most part I have a short list of songs at any time (sometimes only one) that I just die to hear.

That's kinda why I can't listen to music much. If i do, i'm not here anymore.. I'm gone, totally into the song, if it's the right song, if on repeat, hours can be gone. if not, the awakening when it's over .. just 3 to 5 minutes.. and it's like running into a brick wall.. it's like Where did that come from!?!?! (as in the end of the song.. the silence)
It's too hard to come back sometimes... But sometimes I do need to go there, where no one else is there, even if the room is full of people.

It's a different kind of zoning out with me. Normally I zone out to think... to ponder, to figure out what the universe is. Not with music. I just become the music, i enter the music, and I am free of everything but the music. It could become an addiction to me too. Actually it has been, and I've recovered. It made nothing matter. But everything matters, and denying that is denying life. Music is a dangerous tool in the wrong hands. It is a powerful tool in the right hands. Be careful what you listen to.

Oxytocin, oxytocin, oxytocin..... dang that word ain't the most musical... but it is what the body releases.... And outside of listening to music, I don't think my body knows how to release it.... So when it does... it's powerful.

From a very early age, music sends me. My parents were religious and strict. I am firstborn of eight children.
Age 3 maybe even younger, "When the Role is Called Up Yonder I'll be There"
Age 6 or seven "Mockingbird Hill," "I Saw the Light," later, "How Much Is that Doggie in the Window,"
"Untamed Melody," "Bye, Bye, Love"
"Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain"
"On the Shore"
"Big Girls Don't Cry"
"Sherrie Baby"
"Lonely Bull"
"American Pie"
"Riders On the Storm"
"It's Good to Be Back Home Again"
"Satin sheets to lie on, satin pillows to cry on"
Any song takes me to a particular time (year) and recalls the emotions (feeling homesick, for example) at that time.
Bob

I have to listen to music when I'm doing something that requires my utmost concentration (eg: playing WoW). I have a tendency to chew at my cheeks when I'm focusing, but when I listen to music, even if it's drifted into the background to the point where I'm no longer conciously aware of it, it stops me from eating my own face.

I dislike music and eliminate it whenever possible. I never listen to it unless I have to, when it is part of a movie, or I am riding in a car with someone else and their preference is to have music playing.

The first thing I do when starting a new video game is go into the audio options and turn the music volume all the way down.

I used to not mind music as much, and once in a blue moon I still feel like listening to it, but the majority of the time I'd prefer silence.

Music distracts me and makes it more difficult to concentrate, if I'm trying to read, have a conversation, play a video game, or anything else really I can do so much more easily without music playing.

Music is like my saving grace. When I was in school I used it TO concentrate. If I didn't have music on while studying I felt lost. Now I cannot be in a crowded place without my iPod. I use music to keep me centered and calm.

It also helps me to feel things I maybe cannot express myself. I relate most closely with artists who are very passionate and show it. This video alone makes me cry and (before reading the translation) I had no idea what it was about. But watching this particular singer feel something so deeply really does something to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Q9ycbbU8w

Hard to explain it but music just makes me focus and calms me down.

I will enjoy music almost anytime, but I'm very specfic about what can of music that can be played. Anything will alot of bass or turned up really loud starts to give me headaches... so you probably won't see me in any nightclubs.

listening to music on my own is ok. but mostly i prefer silence. i had a lot of problems with dancing or even clapping my hands along with music in public. i became very self conscious and distressed and would often avoid it. anyone else experienced that? sometimes because of that i disliked music.

julie

That's "Unbreak my Heart" (Toni Braxton)!
I knew that I've heard it before, and the lyrics got to me when I reached the chorus.

Music is everything for my emotions! Period!
I can't do much else when listening to music though as I completely loose focus on anything. But that's what I love about it, when I sit and listen.
I can only say that I relate deeply to you Kuma. If I could, I would describe it to you!

EDIT: I know what... I just came to think of a correction: "I wish i could describe it to you". Music makes me wish, a strong inner wish for something better. The feeling of being found.

I love music. I think it's one of the best inventions of mankind. I cannot go for a ride in a vehicle without there being music playing on the radio. I love listening to music on Youtube. I can't sing or play any music instrument (although I took piano lessons when I was younger and I can play one song on the piano), but I love listening to music.

I cannot fall asleep at night without listening to my iPod, and I take it with me whenever I have to ride in the car, and I listen to it when I read. I love playing music and listening to it. I listen to Indie and Classical, mostly, and some Classic Rock... basically anything except Modern (last 9 or 10 years or so) Rap/Hip-Hop/Pop.

Hard to explain what it means. It's extremely addictive and I can listen to it from the evening until the early morning. I LOVE it. It's my drug.
I guess.



Hard to explain, as I said.