Music?

[tree]

You might be referring to "frisson" which is different than feeling beats, bass, etc. Hearing is not required to feel pounding music.

Yes, I have frisson so I do actually "feel" music. I've described it as my hearing being wired directly to my nervous system. Notes, songs, etc can trigger a flush, an overwhelming wave from head to toe for me. Almost like getting mild electrical shock over my whole body.

Frisson - Wikipedia

Yay.
Somebody else, other than me, mentioning this.

I had been calling it "zings" and my friend supposed I meant I was *excited*
or *really liked* some particular music. It has taken repeated explanations for
me to get across that I am talking about a physical sensation.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Being able to feel music is what helps make me a great drag queen. Not only can I lip sync every lyric in any song that I’m performing, I also just come up with spontaneous dance moves on the spot and no one can tell that I didn’t practice those moves. The only song I’ve ever practiced a routine for was Janet Jackson’s Miss You Much where I did the routine from the music video with a few changes but the general choreography was the same.

 

[Forest Cat]

Yes I can. But I have not until now really thought about it, I have assumed everyone did. I can`t explain it in a way that makes sense, but I feel and in a way see the music. Not with my eyes but with something.

Piano is for some reason the music that moves me the most, what I feel the most. This one for example is ridiculously good, it starts simple and small and timid and then builds and builds and it feels good. It`s something that means a lot for me, it`s a very positive experience. It`s like mainlining music.

 

[iamlindsaythatisall]

It`s like mainlining music.

This sentence of yours just spoke to me. I could not agree/empathize more.

Piano is such a beautiful and complex instrument.

I also find that I’m, for lack of a better word, more “attracted” to certain time signatures, as well… music is a wonderful stim

 

[Forest Cat]

This sentence of yours just spoke to me. I could not agree/empathize more.

Piano is such a beautiful and complex instrument.

I also find that I’m, for lack of a better word, more “attracted” to certain time signatures, as well… music is a wonderful stim

Piano is... I wish I could explain clearly exactly how it is. And share the experience with people. I like differerent types of music, but piano is so special for me, it just is. You know what, I have never really thought about music as a stim, but it is!

You`re right, it really is, I have used music for that for 30 years. I just never tought about it like that.

 

[Luca]

@Forest Cat Just a few moments into that beautiful piece and I was already crying Thanks for sharing that!!

 

[BreaksOver]

I get a brief tingling sensation whenever I listen to my favorite songs. It's like goosebumps, or a spidey sense. It can affect just a spot on the back of my neck or my whole body, depending on how powerful the song feels to me. Music also makes me feel intensely happy

 

[Callistemon]

Ever since I can remember, I've been able to physically FEEL music. And it is always an extremely intense feeling. Some songs are more intense than others, obviously... but that's the only way I can describe it. I was just curious how many others in this community have the same experience! I know I wouldn't ever want give up this ability. It's one of the few things in this world that gives me those intense feels

Please let me know! I'm very curious.

I've not read the whole thread yet, but I immediately thought, have you ever looked at synaesthesia? Fascinating!

Heard a really interesting programme last year featuring an 11-year-old girl with synaesthesia explaining how she experiences the world. For example, describing how when she plays saxophone, she sees colours (the type of which depend on the notes, tone etc) and shapes:

And this is Eliza jamming on the saxophone with her teachers Benny and Lachie.

Eliza Watt: One of my favourite things about playing the saxophone is seeing the colours, and that's one of the times that I do pay quite a lot of attention to them. And they come from the back of my head and shoot off really fast to a point in the distance. Probably three metres away from me. Sometimes it'll be a bit late, like I'll play a note that's green, and then green will come a few seconds later. Or sometimes it'll be right on the dot and it'll happen straight away.

Lynne Malcolm: Do emotions affect the colours that you're seeing and the music you're playing?

Eliza Watt: Yeah, how I'm feeling definitely affects what sort of pieces I play, which affects what colours there are. But I don't think my emotions have a very big impact on my colours.

Lynne Malcolm: What colour does the saxophone connote to you?

Eliza Watt: Overall it's a yellow instrument, but the noises are often quite blue—dark blue and green. When I play it it's more yellowy-greenish. Sometimes a bit of pink because I like to play in the higher octaves. And that's quite a high colour for me.

There's also lots of this all across her life. The podcast is downloadable from here:

Synesthesia: seeing sounds, hearing colours

There's lots of really interesting different ways different people can react to music. Great topic! (I'll try to describe my own individual idiosyncrasies in another post. Love topics like this! )

 

[Callistemon]

Last time I was at Lollapalooza I could definately feel the bass line in my chest. Especially from The Killers and Gaslight Anthem! (added) Then there was Lou Reed who went on a riff that lost half the audience. Too bad, I was groovin' in my own "Walk on the Wild Side."

Oh Gawd. You saw Lou Reed live! ...love the New York album!

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Oh Gawd. You saw Lou Reed live! ...love the New York album!

It was 3 days of great music. I went there with two friends from Costa Rica who stayed at my house. We had a great time.

 

[Callistemon]

Yes I can. But I have not until now really thought about it, I have assumed everyone did. I can`t explain it in a way that makes sense, but I feel and in a way see the music. Not with my eyes but with something.

Piano is for some reason the music that moves me the most, what I feel the most. This one for example is ridiculously good, it starts simple and small and timid and then builds and builds and it feels good. It`s something that means a lot for me, it`s a very positive experience. It`s like mainlining music.

That's a lovely piece, and listening to it I knew I'd heard it in a movie. Looking at the title, it's obviously Amelie where I remember it from!

 

[Callistemon]

You might be referring to "frisson" which is different than feeling beats, bass, etc. Hearing is not required to feel pounding music.

Yes, I have frisson so I do actually "feel" music. I've described it as my hearing being wired directly to my nervous system. Notes, songs, etc can trigger a flush, an overwhelming wave from head to toe for me. Almost like getting mild electrical shock over my whole body.

Frisson - Wikipedia

Ah, yes, I get all of those, and didn't know it had a fancy French name! I've learnt a new word!

Here's a piece that consistently produces all those sensations very strongly in me - in addition to a huge emotional response that's equal parts joy and understanding there's sadness in life. To me this composition is like the embodiment of a thunderstorm - and I love thunderstorms, and I always see this as like being on a huge floodplain at nightfall when the thunderclouds roll up, followed by the electrical skyshow in the dark and culminating in rain pelting down and you're getting totally saturated. (And as a teenager I did exactly that during thunderstorms, go out and watch and stand in the rain and actually let it soak me. It was part of the experience. )

The best way to listen to this piece IMO is in the dark, with a proper system with lots of bass, in a room with good acoustics. I'm sure it would sound great on @Metalhead's system!

 

[Owliet]

It really depends on the music. Some music is really emotionally overwhelming that I guess I could probably argue that I feel it physically although I’m not sure if that’s the emotional feeling rather than physically feeling each musical note.

 

[Loren]

Yes, I feel music, both, physically and emotionally.

 

[Lucyd]

I feel things too, but sometimes i see images too. I dont really know what that is though and i sound nuts when i try to explain it.

 

[harry]

Ever since I can remember, I've been able to physically FEEL music. And it is always an extremely intense feeling. Some songs are more intense than others, obviously... but that's the only way I can describe it. I was just curious how many others in this community have the same experience! I know I wouldn't ever want give up this ability. It's one of the few things in this world that gives me those intense feels

Please let me know! I'm very curious.

so you're a dancer?