Music + Mood

[IJesusChrist]

So.

I've been without music for a good deal now, i just didn't turn it on - my computer didn't run itunes + other programs at the same time + my speakers were stock with a '95 desktop. Just not good for music. I haven't been really listening to music on the way to class or anything either. After a trip abroad, I didn't have headphones either - so 3 weeks without music.

I bought new speakers yesterday and have been abusing them like mad. It's great - they are really good... however, I have noticed an enormous change in mood. It seems like I have reverted back 6 months. A less 'open' mood, to be sparse, especially when listening to music. I've felt slight anxiety as well for the first time in months. It's interesting!

I do listen to alot of psychodelic music - infected mushroom, bluetech, ozric tentacles, etc... but over half my library is generic rock, or older classic music.

I just thought this was interesting enough to post. Has anyone else been without music for long periods of time?

 

[trick]

after my 10 month stay in paradice for my little graffiti stunt i forgot what music was like. i beatboxed like mad and got really sick at it, but when i got out and cranked the speakers on the way home, it was almost euphoric. i diddnt really know it was possible for the same songs to sound "better" without the aid of somesort of psychoactive. but that deffinatly changed my views, music is an amazing thing as far as how it can influence feelings.

 

[ararat]

I haven't listened much music since I came home from vienna for the holidays 2 weeks ago, because my beloved stereo is still in the capital with all my cds. so it's just the one or other anouar brahem cd that I listen to over here because my mum got them. (incredibly beautiful music, the only that brought me to tears actually)
I'm going to report how it was to listen to (my) music again

the worst thing one could do is to listen music while being outside - going somewhere with your bike, or walking in the streets. that way you neither really perceive the places you are moving through nor the music that is playing, and you end up in a rather closed mindset afterwards. doesn't have to be like that but it's a tendency I recognize.

 

[trick]

yaknow, that reminds me.. theres a facebook group ive seen titled "headphones on world off". thats very true about music closing you off.

for me, sometimes if im in a negitive mood, i try to listin to some positive music to tune out the feelings, and let the music influence my mood if i cant resolve it on my own. i just kinda realized i do that just now, because im doing it as we speak. my god damn dad is always breathing down my neck about money, and hes stressing me the fuck out. taking a seeminlgy fun and good willed activity and turning it into something thats for only profit. i almost wana say screw this, if thats how it is then i quit.... :axe: im getting pretty sick of it.

i hate money so much.

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:ANAL:

 

[IJesusChrist]

here at the university - during winter, EVERYBODY has their headphones in. I certainly noticed it - headphones in means "I can't hear you, I'm going to ignore you, I'm in my own world right now."

I do it sometimes, but yeah I really don't like the feeling I get from it.

 

[trick]

i love the feeling. not all the time ofcoarce but sometimes its nice to get away and have sometime to yourself. look at it as a form of meditation rather than escapeism! altho it can go ethier way.