Does anyone literally *feel* music?

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I am not talking about feeling the vibrations from music played aloud - that practically happens to everyone...

It's not an emotional response to the music either. It's hard to describe, because it cannot be the vibration of the music because I listen to music with earphones. It's like I can physically feel it as I listen to it... Does that even make sense? For instance if there is a high note in a song or the drums...Whilst listening to it through headphones... I can feel it in my chest and head.

I don't know.. How to effectively describe it....

Does anyone else experience this?

Sorta relate to what your saying.

Your heart can sync with drum beats.

Once I put on a CD of Asian Indian electronic dance music (traditional Indian style rapid percussion done with enhanced electronic bass) and it actually caused momentary pain in my chest to hear it.

Yes I could describe it that way, of course it doesn't always happen...and sometimes its unpleasant like mainstream pop music and modern country. So yeah when I really don't like music its not just distaste it rally does feel unpleasant to listen to.

Definitely. I don't learn my favorite songs on piano by ear I pick the tune out by the actual physical sensations created in my body by the song. When I play the right notes on the piano that particular feeling comes back.

Are you talking about eargasms? If so, I do.

i certainly do; music that literally 'touches' you is one of the best feelings around...

of course, this means that i physically can't listen to a lot of mainstream music: they give me heart-rythm distortions, make me actually ill, trigger epillepsy-like seisures...

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're talking about, but when listening to music I enjoy, it's as though my brain "rides" the flow of the song. I get really annoyed if someone talks to me during those times, or if the song is unexpectedly interrupted. It's as though I just ran into a brick wall and it takes me a moment to recover from the sudden change.

I also get annoyed if I see a hear a live performance of a song that deviates from the original recording that I know.

I don't listen to an awful lot of music but I do know what you mean.

If I'm right it's kind of like a rush that you feel that goes from head to toe.

It's when you hear a certain note.

I don't compose or paint or write, but if I'm asked to describe my feelings I can point to music that matches that general feeling. The lyrics aren't that important.
I imagine this is a natural occurrence, NT's included. For me it differs in the obsessive nature and the social exclusion. I usually don't share it, mostly because it fills my senses and I cant describe it in words.
Great thread! Thanks

I have it with bagpipe music and some techno. It is called synesthesia. It is a rare form of it where one can either see or in our cases feel music.

It is like a breath thing and a blood thing for me. It seems to flow through my body. Music also connects me to places I hike in, certain trees, the smell of the earth, and changes in weather and seasons.

Never happened to me. I don't listen to music, though. I never understood why it's such a big part of people's lives.

Sadly, there was once a band that was playing way too loud, especially the drum,
and I was sitting right up in front.

I heard and felt the music all right ...
with my ears, heart, lungs, and other internal organs
which I will not mention.

I changed seats after the set ended, and that helped.
I had been directly in front of the drum.

I've never gone back to hear that band play again.
It was quite a painful experience.

If it's music I really, really like, I feel a tingling all over my skin, but I just figured that was goosebumps (the hair on my skin standing up) or something. Music does cause changes in your body (for NTs, too) -- my Mom was a music professor, and she said some study found that music caused changes in heartbeat rates and blood pressure. I think they were particularly studying the effect of classical music causing heartbeat rates to slow and blood pressure to lower, but I expect hard rock would increase them.