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Anyone enjoy music intensely?.

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NB79

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I mean some music seems to inspire me strong emotions lifts my spirit, and makes me think a lot of things. And i can enjoy it a lot.
That is supposed to be what music do right? but i don't think most people 'can do that'.

 
I like slow songs. I can feel the music powerfully. Like literally feel the music. When it goes low I feel like I'm pulled downward inside and when it goes high, it feels like it pulls my spirit upward. It's almost like a roller coaster or a winding mountain road within me.
 
Music almost continuously.
The two types that I need are music only Zen type relaxation and rock.
Zen puts me in the comfort zone. Almost as good as a benzo.
I keep it playing around the clock when home.

When I must drive, I listen to Rock. No later than the '90s.
I need the emotional drive it gives me to drive.
Works like a bit of a high to keep the courage going because I never liked driving.
Especially in the city traffic. And that's about the only place I have to drive is in the city.

Yen/Yang. Uppers and downers. ;)
 
Music (especially metal, hardcore and stimulating electronic genres) have been stims for me for pretty much my entire life. While I've certainly appreciated and continue to acquire appreciation for new styles (I think Jazz and more complex genres only tend to find you when you're much older!), I always come back to my basic trio; loud, noisy, and rhythmic pulses.
 
NB79 said:
I mean some music seems to inspire me strong emotions lifts my spirit, and makes me think a lot of things.
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The evoking of emotions is what music is all about. I think you're right about some people being more strongly affected than others too.

What music you listen to affects the way you feel. I deliberately avoid "misery guts" music because I like being happy, I don't want to feel bad all the time. The beat and the tone of the music itself is as important as the lyrics there too.

I successfully complained to my local shopping complex about the music they were playing at Christmas, a time of year notorious for depression and suicide. The christmas carols they were playing were all slow and mournful, I told the manager to stop listening to the words for a minute and just listen to the tones. "Sounds like a funereal dirge, doesn't it? Makes people dream of a luke warm bath and some razor blades."

She did stop and listen for a minute and then she agreed with me. After that a lot of the christmas songs they played were of the cheesy comedy kind but at least it was happy music. Christmas is supposed to be a celebration, not a wake.
 
I am a "mood music" sort of aficianado. Driving... either silence... or immersing myself in the music. I will listen to many different genres. My secret vice... watching "The Voice" and also video clips of other singing performances on "The X factor" and "America's/Britian's Got Talent".
 
With certain pieces of music, absolutely.

The "sound" - and "weight" of an autistic lifetime:


Sometimes I wonder if this is the only way of explaining our autism to others.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
I like slow songs. I can feel the music powerfully. Like literally feel the music. When it goes low I feel like I'm pulled downward inside and when it goes high, it feels like it pulls my spirit upward. It's almost like a roller coaster or a winding mountain road within me.
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Your post makes me remember a poster that I saw. It said, "Music speaks when sometimes words can't."
 
I have eclectic tastes in music. I enjoy everything from Classical to Bluegrass. The last festival I went to was Lollapalooza. I went with two friends who were visiting me from Costa Rica. We had a great time.
 
Yes. Playing music is the biggest intense experience. Fretless bass, fretted bass, cello, upright bass. piano, hammond …. n more. The only music I don’t do is country and rap. (Rap i consider to basic rhyming mumbling that often has violent sexist lyrics the perpetuate a culture of violence. yuck)
 
Enjoy it intensely? I have been listening to this on repeat for 3 days. We autistics are lucky so many of us get to experience music in that way.

 
I listen to music all the time most of the time i have 1 earpiwce in playkmg somethkng.i also get fixated on an album play it to death then move onto another
 
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