Where does the music come from?

[ManDrugMachine]

I hear music in my head, and it is beautiful. Am I hearing the past? Am I hearing the future? Did I create this, or am I stealing it?

Psychonauts... tell me your experiences with music so that I may understand.

 

[Affirmatory]

It is your brain singing.

 

[JamBar]

I would say music is like morse code for the brain and everyone interprets a different language.

Nearly 7 billion different musical languages on earth?

8)

Pink Floyd may pluck your "sit back and relax" chord.



It is good. Haha.

 

[Mr.Smith]

i dont know where it comes from, but i when i hear "head music" it usually sounds Chinese

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

Since you posted this in the Cannabis section, does your question specifically refer to hearing music when you're stoned?

The only time I literally heard music that wasn't there was on a mix of LSD and Datura. I was convinced that the intercom system of the train was playing the Grateful Dead.

 

[ManDrugMachine]

That's correct. Almost every time I get stoned, at some point, I hear music in my head. Sometimes it doesn't last very long, or rather, I can't hold onto it very long. Other times, it is so clear I can distinctly make out the different instruments playing different parts. I'm lucky that I have a pretty good ear when it comes to music, so I can sometimes manage to reproduce some of the parts either on guitar or keyboard.

The music is usually somewhere between classical and rock... lots of woodwinds and strings, but with a more modern feel to it. It's complicated enough so that it's difficult, if not impossible, to capture enough of it to sufficiently duplicate it, although it does very often give me a great starting point for writing a song.

I used to jam with a couple of guys. We would all get stoned and just get lost in the music. The stuff that came out of those sessions was amazing. Our jam would evolve through different chord progressions and tempos, and we would very often be in sync with each other at critical moments of change. Sometimes, I would be listening to the music as a whole when we were playing and forget that I was even playing guitar until I looked down and realized that my hands were still moving.

 

[IJesusChrist]

I see pictures when I'm high. I don't close my eyes, I don't concentrate, they just come to me.

Sometimes so vivid... I remember one, I drew it not accurately but to simply remember it.

2 men on a platform, standing next to a horseshoe-crab shell the size of a garage, with a lever sticking outof the ground. Everything beyond the platform was black.

Another:

A street light, with wings on its connection from the bulb-part to the steel frame, spewing out green and pink liquid in a very smooth fashion at a very wide angle.

Another:
The number 7, sitting next to the letter W also sitting next to an indescribable-unreproducible set of raw data, in front of a small house, in front of the setting sun over the arizona deseert lanscape. The 7 was "alive" and was melting.

I have heard music when high, but I don't remember it specifically.

 

[ManDrugMachine]

IJC,

So, do you have a talent and/or affinity for drawing or painting? I've wondered whether people who are drawn to a certain type of art might not experience a stronger than normal subconscious connection. To me, music is something I find it hard to live without, and I've been playing music most of my life, and although I do experience CEVs on cannabis, the music is the strongest one.

Actually, I used to experience CEVs all the time years ago, but I rarely do anymore... I remember regularly seeing images that I eventually figured out were from dreams from when I was VERY young (6-years-old and younger, I'd guess). Amazing feeling revisiting a pretty intense dream that I hadn't thought about in 20-30 years... it's like your brain never really forgets it, and once you manage to "find" it, it's as intense as the original experience.

My CEVs were always very fleeting, though... like stills flashing in front of me, several times a second... I got kinda good at latching onto one if I wanted to, but at the expense of falling off the train I was just riding.

It sounds like you have longer-lasting and much more intense visuals, though... especially if it's with your eyes open. Very cool.

 

[FluidDruid]

I have frequent hypnagogic audio illusions at night where I hear my favorite songs like "Cellphones Dead" by Beck

 

[mysticwarrior]

There was a time that i constantly heard ambulances or police sirens.....

 

[JamBar]

As a camera operator I have to wear a headset and after a long work week I'll go to bed hearing my director barking orders in my ear until I fall asleep.

 

[Illegalsmile]

my friend played Pokemon so much, every time he took a shit he heard the battle music

 

[????????]

i think head-music comes from all the songs you've ever heard in your life, it's like your brain has a palette made of all sounds of all songs you've heard and it has fun arrangeing them in meaningful patterns and sometimes we believe we are making new sounds...

and the battle music from pokemon is really fucking catchy, just reading that last post triggered it sharply in my head and i haven't heard it in years

 

[Illegalsmile]

my older cousin always told me that they're trying to brainwash me
like the sounds and pictures are repeated to get to your head
he might have a point

 

[????????]

i'm sorry but your cousin has schizophrenia



j/k

 

[Illegalsmile]

i wouldn't be surprised.
smart people are often crazy too

 

[st.bot.32]

I hear music in my head, and it is beautiful. Am I hearing the past? Am I hearing the future? Did I create this, or am I stealing it?

Psychonauts... tell me your experiences with music so that I may understand.

i hear music in my head all the time, always have. it's usually just ideas i'm working on but definitely related to what i'm listening to or thinking about at the time. enter enough ganga or a tab and that music becomes absolutely visceral and clear. but i guess exploring creative processes is largely why i do these substances

 

[bebbolo]

Your brain is out of control