hi there people, i'm a strange person, i don't know if there are people like me in hte world, but my mental state is very influenced by music, slow and soft songs can make me think about my life, about my future, and everything about me. I'm listening to Hallelujah, and this song can touch my heart in a strange way, this song makes me, i don't know how to explain...maybe sad but i don't think, this song make me strange. And wha about you? can music influence your emotional and mental state? Thank you foryour responses :)
[question posted by codris]
responses and comments:
Of course, when words are just not there, music sorta picks up where words leave off. [sbviper]
I do not think that is weird, but rather that is one of the most important purposes of music, which is why I do not like music on while I am working as I need to think about one thing or another and not both, you see. Studies have shown that music can indeed influence one's emotional, mental, and even physical states. Some music heals. Some music harms. Certain kinds of music raise the blood pressure, and I have noticed in a few examples that people who have health problems related to high blood pressure do naturally choose that sort of music over the kind that lowers it. Go figure... [drannhh]
..of course.. if u lie down and listen to a music deeply, it can make u think.. [raymondcarreon]
I do sometimes put on music to make me think better. It depends on the mood I am in. Mostly it is Enya and Loreena Mckennitt I listen to when I need to relax and think. Their music are so relaxing that it takes you to a different place. I use to when I making homework and projects, but also if I want to dream away to a far far place from where I am in lol ;) [joedoe809]
If a song is well written then it certainly can make a person stop for a moment and think. It isn't strange at all, it is however a tribute to the smartness of the people who wrote the song happy [fwidman]
Yeah music is good. But I am still waiting to know what airsoft gear you havesad [thezone]
cool. I have an ak 47 and a glock for close encounters. I am thinking of getting a shotgun this year to replace the glock. [thezone]
Definately. There was a time where I was very very depressed. I got a stack of vinyl there and I really didn't feel like playing anything, but I came across a song called everything is gonna be alright by the sounds of blackness. There is a mix on there by CJ mackintosh and its about 10 minutes long. I just put it on, closed my eyes and listened to every word. I forgot why I was depressed and got on with my life, never looked back since. This is definately a great song, check it out if your feeling low. [TheRantingTruck]
one thing that I can say is those feelings, well there are no words to express the feeling! yeah I hear certain songs and they make feel warm and also depending if I am thinking about someone. which lots of songs make me feel sad but at the same giving me joy. music sort of gives us a heighten state which then gets us to think about our lives and what we can do to make things better for ourselves. I think all of us when listening to music can influence us in one way or another! [hoodwinks]
Yes!!! it can.. Listening to music's soulful tones and inspiring lyrics makes me think of what my life could be in the future. Well, both of my personal and Goals in life. Apart from those people i love, who are around me, music is the best aspect that should not live without. There's a night that i could not sleep without listening to my favorite rnb songs, there is also a day that i feel so sick without listening to it. It makes me really think that my life is worth living for... [babajhenz]
Yes, I think music definitely can majority effect people. I saw a science program on the way music effects people and how scientist have very little understanding of it. I can definitely start feeling sad enough to cry or insanely giddy just from listening to a song. [UpsideDownPineapple]
hi ,codris, longtime no see la ,well, I think this is a good topic ,so we can share each other 's opinion, in fact, music really can make me think , it make me think about the world , people and my heart. when I hear a favorite music , it can make a deep thinking. good luck [thebest1988]
DEFINITELY! Music is life! music s a form of communication./ anything that is created to convey will make ur mind work! for me, Music is the best form of sending a message.. it touches ur heart ad stirs ur Emotion! it depends on the tune, harmony and lyrics! keep listening, keep living! [richshamy]
Yes, I do think it can affect your mental and emotional state. Right now, I'm listening to TLC - Unpretty and before I was listening to it, I wasn't sad at all, but when I listen to it, it makes me sad because I think of how many people have self-esteem issues and how true the song can be for so many. I have read studies that music can also help people with Alzheimer's. It refreshes their memory because the music is so strongly associated with a specific event in their life. Like their wedding song, the songs they heard on romantic dates, the songs they listened to at specific events, turning points in their life. I write lyrics and I more than hope that my lyrics help people think. [cherishxbunny]
Yes music can make you think and effect your feelings. I listen to some songs and if the singer is real good they can make you feel sad or loved just by the way they sing the verses of the song. There are many songs that I listen too and each time they make me cry just because of the emotion of the music and verses of the song. [happy6162]
i think most of people feels like you,include me.and it's normally,i think.i like to listen shoegaze music which is make me feel like flying in the air, or wondering something.sometimes music influence my life especially my love life. [emediloy]
It does, music can affect your mood and emotion, the music you choose reflects the kind of emotions you have, it influences your actions. According to history, Einstein was influenced by music because of his love of it particularly the violin, it makes him think smarter than anybody else. [julporps]
Music makes a lot of wonderful - and sometimes sad- things for me. it makes me reminisce both happy and sad memories. In my studies, music influences and enhances my writing skills. [amijor]
Very true. I get emotional when I listen to some slow sonngs. It brings back memories of my childhood, my teens and the new budding thoughts I had when I just entered my 20s. Since I am a lover of Nature, such slow, soft songs take me to green pastures, forests and mountain tops touching the clouds and me flying free like a bird. Yes, it is a strange and relishing feeling. [suprad1]
Hi,my dear friend! When I have reading the discusion, I have the same feeling with you. Music is cleaning cartridge of heart. It infulence our emotional,our interests,our life,our work and everything. I like music and I like my life! [wdx9105]
when i hear the music,i find that this music can influence my emtion,especially i am alone to share music.when i heard the sad love song.it often let me think about my ex-boyfriend who accompany with me come through good time and suffering departing,this sad song easy excited me and stop my mind for a while.when i hear the happy songs and make me feel happy in my heart and often think about happy thing between my husband and me.SO I hear different song and influence different in my mind. [bingchen]
Music can makes me relaxed,but not think. When there is nothing to do,i will listen music,but i won't listen music while doing other things,it would distract me. [plumbing]
Music CERTAINLY has almost "magical" influences in many cases. Since music is one of the "universal languages", it can cross cultural, religious, ethnic, and other barriers; where other means of communication would fail. Music also has the capacity to turn on or off certain sentiments, emotions, and other inner (personal) feelings we all experience. Music can even induce a measure of spiritual enlightenment and can open doors of new understanding and wisdom. Music also has the ability to energize our physical being; whether through upbeat, uplifting, dance-inducing rhythms and melodies that make us want to move to the music; or through more bittersweet, easy-listening orchestrations that foster relaxation and peacefulness. Indeed...music just might have the capacity to foster World Peace! Since music can cross barriers, it can reach and influence peoples' souls; their attitudes; their behaviors; their inner sense of connection with all things; their understanding of purpose, place, and importance in the world, and their appreciation for the need to learn how to peacefully co-exist and help each other, instead of attempting to change the world through fear and forces of war, hatred, and other evils. Such inner enlightenment and wisdom can then spread; one soul at a time. Promote Peace! Share peace-music! http://www.associatedcontent.com/audio/2203/newhope.html [w1z111]
yeah your right your mentak state will be affected by the kind of music you i too hear music when iam felling sleepy i would hear a fast beat song i stay awake and i would hear some slow numbers if if am tensed [gowsik]
Music heals all the wound,it refreshes our mind and makes us energetic, but coming to the point about looking for the future I never experienced it till now!But it is true that we can come out of our sadness... [ewinner]
For a computer's programmer, music makes it as a nuisance. That means it could be our brains can't work optimally. I can conclude that the music matched to feeling, not for the brain. I hope you agree :) Thanks [didinmahrudin]
Hi codris, yep don't worry you're not alone :) I love listening to music. May it be fast or upbeat, slow or even christian music. Any type can actually move me and makes me reflect or sometimes even daydream. Sometimes listening to Christian music makes me emotional and helps me look at things in a bigger picture. [samrie29]
Most definitely. I believe that it depends on what piece of music you are listening to on how it changes the way you think, your mindset etc. For example, listening to heavy metal certainly won't soothe you and may give you strong feeling and emotion, whereas if classical is more your thing, you may feel more relaxed and mellow [MrKennedy]
If music does not stir your emotions, it was badly composed. It is supposed to make you feel something! It usually gets a reaction from me, although some of the pop songs are rather empty of emotion. When I hear one of those, I concentrate on how the music is being played and enjoy each instrument. A lot of music these days, come to think of it, doesn't get an emotional reaction from me. [dragon54u]
I'm also influenced by music. Not just my mental state but also my whole being. Music is a very powerful medium for changing what we feel, we do; and even change how we perceive. There's this band I'm listening for the past years named 'Sigur Ros'. It's an ambient band from Iceland. It makes a lot of heavenly and atmospheric sound that would make you rethink of your whole life here on earth. It has angelic voices and hymns, very spiritual. They call it 'Hopelandic' it's the murmuring of meaningless words. But ironically will capture your heart and soul. Point is, meaning depend on how people interpret what they hear. Another is the 'Mozart Effect' it's the process of playing Classical music on babies to develop their growth mentally. How? They sure don't understand what they're hearing. They might even don't not care what music is. But we are created to understand music in a very natural way. The complex structure of Classical music, the arrangement, the notes used are radical it makes the human brain think and analyze it unconsciously. The brain calculates this structure like how the brain perceives colors of light through the eyes. And it gives a great work out for the brain. Imagine leaning without doing anything, just listening. Even if we're asleep. That's why our head hurts when we try sleeping with the music on. The brain still analyzes what we hear even while sleeping. Anyway too much for that. For me, music makes us think figuratively and literally speaking. [registeraccnt]
Sometimes it depends on the frame of mind that i am in. There are certain types of music that i hear that i just want to turn off, while others take me on a journey. Sometimes i will listen to a specific song and I start dreaming of being in a different place. Music is the manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any other language. If we do not want these things to remain dead treasures, we must do our utmost to make the greatest possible number of people understand their idiom. --Zoltán Kodály [catilda]
go and listen to the song:TRUE COMPANION by MARC COHN and feed me back what it does to you. all of you here will elicit different reactions. but the true is that your reaction depends on the kind of music you listen to. I'm comfortable with soft rock, contemporary gospel, and an admixture of blues and love songs..and i have come to truly agree that what music does is good to the soul, spirit emotion. [jamesibechi]
This is a topic that has always interested me a great deal. I used to just ask people "what does this song make you think of?". I started taking psychology in college so I could better understand how the brain works and what makes our thoughts different. It seem that there is something to the fact that we are what we remember because our senses of smell, sound, touch, etc. can trigger memories and make our mood change sometimes without us even consciously knowing why. That is what is so great about music is that it can touch so many people and move them inside in a special way that nothing else can. When you can play like that then you are truly a musician!! [cableman67]
Music does help me think. It gives me ideas, depending on what I am listening to. I also cannot work on something without music in the background. It helps me concentrate in a way. Without it, I can get frustrated, so since it relaxes me, it effects my emotional state just a bit. [megamatt]
well i am 100% sure that music affects your emotional state and personally i try not to listen to rock or any other songs that don't boost up my morale when i'm felling down because music can make a huge difference on your state of mind but it's nothing weird,everybody has a song that touches them in a way or the other. [robertflavius]
Yes, this is a hot favourite of mine! Music definitely makes you think and it's funny because I'm listening to my favourite music now as I post away on My Lot! I'm listening to the music from the Rocky films! It helps me concentrate and yes, it helps me to think too! That's what I love about music, it can really affect your mental and emotional state! I feel great when I listen to positive, upbeat music! I'm also a keen cyclist and I find that by listening to music from the Rocky films particularly 'Eye of the Tiger' my cycling perfomance increases and I feel terrific mentally and emotionally. Great topic, I can definitely relate to this! Andrewhappy [AndrewFreyne]