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What is this feeling and why do I get it???
Hi, I'm female, fifteen, and I've been in band for four years now. When I was younger, I used to be able to fall asleep to music, especially classical, but since I've gained a deeper understanding of what I'm hearing, I can't anymore. I'm tangled up in the sound, picking the music, chords, apart. It's an exciting thing for me. Lots of the time, I'll hear something that totally enthralls me, I get super excited. I tense up, clench and unclench my fists, and take in a really sharp breath, sometimes it's a sharp gasp. And I feel like I can Physically feel the music. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I started trying to figure out what it was and I think It's almost like sexual excitement, but without the "lusty" feeling. What is this and why do I experience this? And, would anyone know if it's normal to hear music you've never heard before in your dreams? Thanks in advance! :D
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I dont know about that feeling but my advice is USE IT, it sounds special.
If you are that passionate about music, use it to practice and master it. It'd do you good, and not many people can be that passionate- use it to learn as much and play as much as you can.
Not sure if it is normal, but i like these other people, play an intstument...and I dream music i've never heard before quite often. Waking up is weird becuase everything is too quiet!
Dont worry about these feelings, just go with them- they sound important~
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Have fun with music! Its a lifelong skill and you in paticular sound like you could really make something from it.
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While I'm not a musician I am an artist of sorts with a lot of friends who are musicians ranging from singers to drummers and guitarists.
I don't know if there is any technical term for what you seem to be experiencing but I can pretty confidently assure you that it's normal for anyone you has a deep passion for the arts, or anything else for that matter.
I'm sure at one point or another you've heard the term "renaissance." While it pertains to specific time periods in history as they pertain to art and literature, another definition is - "any similar revival in the world of art and learning." So in a way, you're kind of having your own personal renaissance. Pretty cool huh.
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I am a fellow musician (7 years) and i too have started doing that. I can pick apart, the melodies, the different pitches(even if they are only a half-step in difference), the chords. It is amazing isn't it?
Yes it is normal. I have a deep passion for music, I'm in the band and the color guard at my school. You know how some people sleep walk?
I'll spin imaginary equipment in my sleep :D
It's perfectly normal :)
- Hardcore-Band-Geek
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It sounds like a couple things, having a deep passion for music, having a gift of having a musical ear and being able to pick apart chords and sounds to pick up on the emotions and feelings behind each sound. That is a very special gift to have and not every musician, singer,song writer has it.
You won't easily to able to compare yourself to the masses as a good majority don't have this ability to pick up on feeling and emotion in music or even more so to create new music that does have it.
This will make the difference between a good song, which is one that entertains you and the great song which will move you and affect you on many levels as it engages all your emotions.
There are songs whose melody...not the words but the sound are such that as soon as I start listening, it releases any stress and I am able to relax...or it makes me seem to refill my inner well of joy and I feel excitement, well being and my spirit feels as if its soaring.
You have a great talent. You may want to pursue music as in creating songs, songtrack. Those sounds that add suspense or sadness or happiness in movie scenes are using the gifts you have. A job like that would be rewarding or song writing for therapy.
In natural health and healing it has long been known that sound, and particular sound waves aid health and healing and sound therapy is popular in music, use of gongs, tibetan bowls and crystal bowls that are played to achieve the sounds that help relax, de-stress, un block and heal.
Good luck in what ever direction you go with your gifts.
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We all seem to have emotional/psychological responses and reactions to music. On a basic level, music can sound happy, sad, can stir or subdue, and in cases almost paint vivid pictures in our minds. The mechanism has always defied a scientifically rigorous explanation. We do not really 'know' the precise nature of the bridge (as it were) between music and feelings. And so music is considered the highest of the high arts. Painting and sculpture for instance are representative, they have a real-life model (even the whole form of art I'm going to bundle-up together as 'abstract'...which still represents a concept, if not a physical presence). Music represents nothing but itself. It has what we call artistic autonomy. The instruments of the orchestra, to an electric guitar do not imitate any sound we find in nature. They sound like themselves, they define themselves. True autonomy!!YOU are connecting and interacting with music on a very high level indeed by the sound of it. Your undertsanding of the structure of music is enhancing the experience further still. As an example, without this knowledge one might think a little tune 'sounds Japanese'. You could no doubt identify the particular tonal progressions and sequences which epitomise Japanese music, and know WHY it sounds Japanese? And so on. You're definitely engaging with music on a high emotional and intellectual plateau here. I can't tell you why or how. The fact that your subconscious, sleeping mind 'conjures up new music' does not surprise me one one bit. The sensation of 'physically feeling' the music is also not a surprise. There's not really space to go into long discussions about neuro-transmitters and the like, and I doubt it would interest you much. Just think that we will all find our hands tremble when experiencing extreme excitement, stress will make us sweat more, a shock will make your stomach suddenly 'churn' and so on. The similarity with sexual excitement you have noted yourself. Don't try to explain it, just enjoy what you have. A deep connection with music. Try to channel those 'new music in your dreams' ideas into composing, maybe? You're a lucky lady, and I should say one way or another music is going to be a huge feature of your life, all your life.
ps. Taste is personal and individual, but if you want to run yourself through all the human emotions, try Piano Concert No.2 in C Minor, and 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini' by a brilliant Russian composer named Sergei Rachmaninov. You may already know of these pieces? XX
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yes i know exactaly how you feel i am a fellow musician my self and i cn pick out different instruments in a song. And you might either be making a song in your head when you sleep or you might be modifying it. or if you listen to the radio at night when you are asleep you cloud be partally awake so your brain is processing it to your dreams.
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