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Goosebumps when listening to certain songs - explanation?
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I am deeply confused, I thought you were a deeply conservative 20+ student? And you listen to THE WANTED which pretty much aimed at teenage girls?
By the way, if you were joking, it's hard to tell.
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I'm currently reading a book all about how our brains listen to music. It involves practically all of our brain, including the cerebellum and amygdala which are involved in emotions, and our memory centres so it can trigger emotional memories. That's probably the reason.
Music in games or films (as said above - mainly classical/instrumental stuff) does it to me. Don't get goosebumps from pop songs that I can recall.
I'll give you an example -
That sequence from Mass Effect gets me every time and for some reason I even get choked up and almost feel like bursting into tears (probably some kind of sense of pride?) at 1:15 when the Normandy pulls in to dock.
I'll give you an example -
That sequence from Mass Effect gets me every time and for some reason I even get choked up and almost feel like bursting into tears (probably some kind of sense of pride?) at 1:15 when the Normandy pulls in to dock.
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Read up on this years ago.
It's similar to how fish listen, it's the vibrations that resonate inside your canal and how your brain percieves them, meant to be similar in how fish communicate underwater?!
Anyway it's known as an eargasm i kid you not, i listened to the star wars medley 3 on yt with my pro 900's a few weeks back.
Shivers, i was in tears, not from emotion it was just the music was having that much of an effect.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eargasm
It's similar to how fish listen, it's the vibrations that resonate inside your canal and how your brain percieves them, meant to be similar in how fish communicate underwater?!
Anyway it's known as an eargasm i kid you not, i listened to the star wars medley 3 on yt with my pro 900's a few weeks back.
Shivers, i was in tears, not from emotion it was just the music was having that much of an effect.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eargasm
When I had my 4-figure cost HiFi this could happen, but only because of how amazingly breathtaking songs I really liked sounded.
Same thing, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
You don't need a 4 figure hi-fi or anywhere close to 4 figures to enjoy sublime eargasm from music.
I get the feeling all the time when my NAD amp is busting out guitar riffs to my Tannoy V4 speakers. I just sit there at the right distance, close my eyes and listen to the guitar strings being plucked a few feet to my right while the vocals and supporting instruments surround me from front and back - Stereo is very powerful and you don't need 7.1x10000 speakers to get that "live" feeling. It's not the music in general that gives the feeling, it's when you hear the strings being plucked, that little reverb and click as the string is released, it makes your neck hairs stand up. So good.
Low bitrate MP3s are also not the way to enjoy such music
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You don't need a 4 figure hi-fi or anywhere close to 4 figures to enjoy sublime eargasm from music.
I get the feeling all the time when my NAD amp is busting out guitar riffs to my Tannoy V4 speakers. I just sit there at the right distance, close my eyes and listen to the guitar strings being plucked a few feet to my right while the vocals and supporting instruments surround me from front and back - Stereo is very powerful and you don't need 7.1x10000 speakers to get that "live" feeling. It's not the music in general that gives the feeling, it's when you hear the strings being plucked, that little reverb and click as the string is released, it makes your neck hairs stand up. So good.
Low bitrate MP3s are also not the way to enjoy such music
I think what affects you when you're listening to music is not what affects most people who listen to music.
Seriously? That makes me want to hack my eyeballs out with ETs finger.
I concur.
I get something very similar, not the tear bursting part but I get the chills as has been mentioned in this thread already. A few pieces from Mass Effect do it to me infact, Vigil from the first game for instance.
I tend to attach pieces of music to memories from my life, or they are already attached to a scene from a game or a movie that I really enjoyed, in a way it is more the entire memory it stirs, though music can do it by itself to.
The Band of Brothers music gives me chills, as do a few bits from games like Call of Duty (Pegasus Bridge in particular).
More recently, "How To Train Your Dragon" has given me chills to
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