Actual physical pleasure; from music?

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I've recently come across a genre of music that is not exactly new...just new to me. Over the past few weeks I have been listening to it basically at all times. The reason being, it causes me intense physical pleasure. It's not sexual, just overall goodness. If I had to describe it, it would have to be something akin to euphoric.

I've enjoyed various types of music for many reasons all my life. I typically favor electronica, although not exclusively. I have synesthesia, it is rather minor, and maybe unusual(?) in that in some sounds I can attribute colors, and in some physical sensations. But...nothing this intense, or prolonged/continual like this new genre of music is stimulating. It's addictive and consuming, but I'm not sure I care...

I am curious if this is experienced by anyone else here in WP. Or anything equally peculiar regarding music/synesthesia.

Music was a thing of the soul--a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea--a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz

There is music in all things, if men had ears.
Lord Byron

great music affects me at multiple levels, like i can feel different areas of my brain "lighting up" all at once, and if this were to be visualized somehow, i would appear to have dancing lights scintillating in my brain. plus i have stendahl's syndrome, so there are certain pieces of music that to me are so beautiful, i get choked up and weep . short of that, when i listen to charlie balogh play bouncy jazzy fun music at the organ stop wurlitzer [organ stop pizza, mesa AZ] i go to a different place in my head, it is just so overwhelmingly schmaltzy and fun and joyous, even when listening to the CD on my home stereo system [albeit a high-quality system] instead of in person. when i listen to that music i am forced despite myself, to get up and dance a foolish dance of a quasi-spastic fool , and make funny noises in sympathy to the music. i really get weird at these times. listening to charlie play "clap hands, here comes charlie!" just sends me.

I can get all weepy and overcome by music. Especially when I play the keyboard and can't believe something so beautiful (to me anyways cause I'm still learning) came out of me and no one in my family really cares to play an instrument.

Like a lot of people, I used to get the floating sensation when listening to analog.

No I am not straddling a speaker or base.

Music takes me away to far away places and inspires me. A lot of my ideas for short stories come to me when I listen to music.

First off, I highly recommend you read This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. He explains how the brain is affected by what you hear, and how some sounds can produce intense pain, while other sounds can produce intense gratification. You might find alot of answers

There was one time that I was jamming with my friend within this past year and it was the first time I decided I didn't care and I would let loose. We went on a psychedelic rampage, shifting moods and forsaking holding on to anything that sounded good for too long, deep in the mix of it the whole time. For the first time I felt that pure creativity pouring out. There was no part of it that I had to consider before it left me and afterwards I was on top of the world. Without a doubt I can say that that feeling was better than sex, because it felt similar though more powerful. Something ancient stirred for a moment.

grab a cold drink.

Sit down, put speakers on high..

and ride the wave

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I've a friend who, whenever he is listening to something or some part he really loves greatly, will just start running. I guess he feels a sort of euphoria that translates to liveliness?

I get nice shivers and goosebumps from some sections in certain songs. It's almost orgasmic but it's not sexual if that makes sense.

Yes I get physical pleasure from music, that is probably why I am addicted to it...lol, I seriously feel worse if I go a day without listening to music.