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beandelphikiI found this on a message board, where some people were discussing music. Someone asked if anyone else was "addicted" to music, and a lot of people said that they were....and that they listen to music all the time while they do other things. Someone said:
I hear this a lot but am very confused by it. I love music. It is very important to me. But I cannot concentrate on anything mental when music is playing. I actually listen to the music. I pay close attention to it. The music tells a story and I have to listen to it. I do not see how it is possible to really listen to any music of substance while reading a book or writing an essay. Maybe my definition of listening to music is different.
I remember 20+ years ago when I met my wife. She told me that she loved to listen to music and I thought YES! So I would go to her place and put on a record, and she would start talking. She did not like to listen to music. She liked to have music playing in the background while we talked. My music lover friends and I used to get together and put on music and sit quietly and LISTEN. Then we would talk about what we heard.
I think many people turn on the radio or stereo when they need to read, study, or work. Most commercial music (basically 99% of everything on the radio) produces a very constant decible of sound. There is no dynamic contrast like you will find in classical or jazz. This static volume (and usually very simple repetitive rhythm) creates a steady background noise that basically drowns out all the little distractions that would otherwise pull them off task.
So maybe when some people say they listen to music, they really mean they like background music when they are working on something.
- Chaz Harris
YES! Exactly. I love that I've finally seen someone articulate this.
I need a certain amount of time listening to music every day, but that is time spent LISTENING to it. Not sitting there just letting it play while I do something else.
It's not that I don't tune it out a lot if I'm listening to a song for the millionth time. At that point, it's not so easy to hear a story - I've heard thousands of different stories from the same song at that point, and they don't come so easily anymore.
But whenever I'm listening to something new, I have to listen to the story it tells.
Songs never really run dry, though. The easiest things will come first, and then sometime later, just when you think that you really know the song, it will tell another story. A sadder one. Or a more hopeful one. But always a subtler one, a wiser one, a story that you didn't hear when you were too busy paying attention to its "electric youth."
...Of course, the songs always have bad timing, and tell me a new story when I'm trying to work on something. 'S why I usually can't have music playing when I'm trying to work. It's too bad, because not listening to music when I want to and trying to work like I wouldn't rather listen to music is like fasting for hours and expecting yourself not to be hungry.
I hear this a lot but am very confused by it. I love music. It is very important to me. But I cannot concentrate on anything mental when music is playing. I actually listen to the music. I pay close attention to it. The music tells a story and I have to listen to it. I do not see how it is possible to really listen to any music of substance while reading a book or writing an essay. Maybe my definition of listening to music is different.
I remember 20+ years ago when I met my wife. She told me that she loved to listen to music and I thought YES! So I would go to her place and put on a record, and she would start talking. She did not like to listen to music. She liked to have music playing in the background while we talked. My music lover friends and I used to get together and put on music and sit quietly and LISTEN. Then we would talk about what we heard.
I think many people turn on the radio or stereo when they need to read, study, or work. Most commercial music (basically 99% of everything on the radio) produces a very constant decible of sound. There is no dynamic contrast like you will find in classical or jazz. This static volume (and usually very simple repetitive rhythm) creates a steady background noise that basically drowns out all the little distractions that would otherwise pull them off task.
So maybe when some people say they listen to music, they really mean they like background music when they are working on something.
- Chaz Harris
YES! Exactly. I love that I've finally seen someone articulate this.
I need a certain amount of time listening to music every day, but that is time spent LISTENING to it. Not sitting there just letting it play while I do something else.
It's not that I don't tune it out a lot if I'm listening to a song for the millionth time. At that point, it's not so easy to hear a story - I've heard thousands of different stories from the same song at that point, and they don't come so easily anymore.
But whenever I'm listening to something new, I have to listen to the story it tells.
Songs never really run dry, though. The easiest things will come first, and then sometime later, just when you think that you really know the song, it will tell another story. A sadder one. Or a more hopeful one. But always a subtler one, a wiser one, a story that you didn't hear when you were too busy paying attention to its "electric youth."
...Of course, the songs always have bad timing, and tell me a new story when I'm trying to work on something. 'S why I usually can't have music playing when I'm trying to work. It's too bad, because not listening to music when I want to and trying to work like I wouldn't rather listen to music is like fasting for hours and expecting yourself not to be hungry.
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Date: 2004-11-22 09:45 pm (UTC)I'm in a bitchy mood
this yeartoday.(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-22 11:46 pm (UTC)I hate going to parties, and people decide to turn on a movie and then talk through it. I can't follow the movie OR the conversation, and because the movie keeps drawing my eye, I want to watch it, but I can't. I can get so frustrated in that situation I want to cry. People think I'm a serious grouch because I'm snapping at them.
Do you have trouble in that sort of situation?
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Date: 2004-11-23 06:15 am (UTC)Mmm yeah, I might have a little trouble. ...Seriously, you go to parties, and people turn on the tv? WTF? Unless it's meant to be a video night or something, in which case shouldn't people be watching... eh.
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Date: 2004-11-30 06:46 pm (UTC)Oh, and I listen to every word of it until I pass out. It's like that whooshing sound that those disgusting surrogate mother bear dolls make... comforting white noise.
I am able, though, if I have to do some work or something, to totally tune the TV out, even if it is fascinating. Case in point: work. They sometimes have the TV blaring way too loudly, but I remain focused on my meds, and can walk in and out of the TV room, passing meds efficiently, without losing focus.
Maybe it's another sign of adult ADD?
which reminds me... have you seen: http://www.adultadd.com/index.jsp ?
It claims it's a good site and talks about meds and such.
Silly me though, of course you would have seen it already. I'm sure it's the first one to pop up on google.
anyways. that's my 2 cents worth.
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Date: 2004-11-30 06:47 pm (UTC)so, take any medication suggestions with a huge grain of salt.
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Date: 2004-11-30 08:11 pm (UTC)There is some good stuff on there, though.
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Date: 2004-11-30 08:19 pm (UTC)*blinks* I don't think I know what you're talking about, but it sounds terribly disturbing.
Maybe it's another sign of adult ADD?
Well, it's definitely a sign of the way my brain works. :P
I also have a problem where if someone talks during a movie, it all turns into noise for me. That is, both their voice is random noise, and the TV/movie is random noise and I can't understand either at all. It's just chaos. Then it takes 2-3 seconds after they finish for me to recover, and for the movie to "kick back in" and start making auditory sense again.
I'm not sure why that is. I mentioned that to my family, and they looked utterly perplexed.
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Date: 2004-12-13 04:10 pm (UTC)http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca.htm
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