Does anyone else get a 'runner's high' from playing music?

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24 Apr 2008, 7:54 pm

This is something I've always wondered about. Sometimes when I get really into improvising music I can get a bit of an endorphin rush/ runner's high off of it. Anyone else find this, or is it just me?

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24 Apr 2008, 7:57 pm

Yes. Very much so.

Except I don't improvise, and it also happens when I'm listening to music.

But not always.

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24 Apr 2008, 8:11 pm

Yes. I also get it from watching my favorite movies.

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24 Apr 2008, 8:18 pm

I literally get runner's high from listening to music, because I actually run while I play it.

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24 Apr 2008, 8:30 pm

Yes, I get this.

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24 Apr 2008, 8:30 pm

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24 Apr 2008, 8:31 pm

Absolutely. Both from playing and listening. Some kind of euphoria...

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24 Apr 2008, 11:29 pm

It's what's held me together while writing my thesis, and I am almost done.

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24 Apr 2008, 11:31 pm

IdahoRose wrote:

I literally get runner's high from listening to music, because I actually run while I play it.

Good! You'll be in great shape before too long if you keep that up. I kinda wish I did more running when I was your age.

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25 Apr 2008, 12:38 am

sgrannel wrote:

IdahoRose wrote:

I literally get runner's high from listening to music, because I actually run while I play it.

Good! You'll be in great shape before too long if you keep that up. I kinda wish I did more running when I was your age.

I run for at least an hour every day and I've been doing it for years, but believe it or not, I'm overweight. It's because two of my medications have weight gain as a side effect. Before my medication, I weighed 140 pounds. Now, I weigh 180 pounds.

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25 Apr 2008, 1:27 am

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Totally

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26 Apr 2008, 10:24 am

Listening to it or playing it, especially my own, I do, yes. It's one of the reasons I do it.

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26 Apr 2008, 1:54 pm

9CatMom wrote:

Yes. I also get it from watching my favorite movies.

Me too.

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27 Apr 2008, 1:11 am

IdahoRose wrote:

sgrannel wrote:

IdahoRose wrote:

I literally get runner's high from listening to music, because I actually run while I play it.

Good! You'll be in great shape before too long if you keep that up. I kinda wish I did more running when I was your age.

I'm heavier than you are. I'd be in bad shape if I didn't run so much, but as it is I feel pretty good. I have wondered whether certain antipsychotics cause people to gain weight because they make the person taking them sluggish, and whether it's the lack of activity that causes the problem, and not necessarily the medication itself. Also, steriods and anything resembling them (I think certain asthma medicines are a kind of steroid?) can also cause weight gain despite activity. Interestingly enough, I read that steroids similar to testosterone are sometimes given to cancer patients to rebuild their immune systems, and increase their appetite and tissue growth so they don't waste away.

Prednisone is used to treat inflammation and autoimmune disorders, and it can cause weight gain.

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27 Apr 2008, 5:27 pm

SilverProteus wrote:

9CatMom wrote:

Yes. I also get it from watching my favorite movies.

Me too.

Ditto!

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19 May 2008, 5:38 pm

yeah its called emotion.. fa***ts

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