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memonster
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posted November 14, 2010 12:51 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 13:41, 14 Nov 2010.
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Power of Imagination?
Here's something i have been wondering for a while now. Everytime I hear some music, that comes to my liking my imagination starts to work. When listening to songs like The Foggy Dew I can visualise two medival armies facing each other, a bloody battle, firing cannons and of course the fog that shrouds the battle. When I listen to say, The Red Army Theme I see a hill and a thousand coming from it, i recall numerus scenes from movie "Enemy at the gates", some struggles from "Call od Duty" series, as well as i get the felling of being a part of an unstopable force. I notice that when I am learing stuff for school I'm forgetting some of it but all i need to do to remember is to listen to the music I was listening to while i was learing. All in all i feel that music in general is influencing my thought process and my emotional state. I know that people generally think that music soothes the customs, but I find myself confused from time to time as i start to feel better just by listening to music even though my situation has not changed in the slightest. The thing I'm wondering about is what is cousing me to react that way to music.
I heard that there are people that connect what they hear with what they see, for example if they hear a name lets say John , they instantly see a color that ,in their opinion, corresponds to the name like yellow, blue violet or any other. Is my reaction to music also some sort of connecting my senses, so that I can expirience more than just hearing but also seeing or is it that i just have a large imagination.
I expirience similiar visualizations while im reading a book. I can imagine how a character may look even if he's looks are yet to be described by the author or aren't described at all. This goes as far as adding voices to the characters even though im just reading. This has happened with every book I have ever read in my life. At one point in school,where we we're discussing books about WW2 , we were reading the scene of torturing a kid by nazis. I wasn't feeling super strong that day since i skipped breakfest, but i could easli cope with it since i had lessons to 11 AM. This was not the first time I did so. But as we were going further and further through the interrogation scene I was visualizing them and have started to feel bad. Before the teacher got a chance to finish readin , she noticed that i'm looking extreamly pale, some people say i was even green on some places, she asked if I was feeling ok. I replied not quite and passed out.
I think that my sense of hearing and seeing have more in common than i realise. What made me think about it recently is this video video. After watching it i started thinking about how i react to music and literature.If any of you had a similar experience or has any thoughts on this topic please reply.
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markkur
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posted November 14, 2010 01:08 PM |
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Here's something i have been wondering for a while now. Everytime I hear some music, that comes to my liking my imagination starts to work. I expirience similiar visualizations while im reading a book. I can imagine how a character may look even if he's looks are yet to be described by the author or aren't described at all. I think that my sense of hearing and seeing have more in common than i realise.After watching it i started thinking about how i react to music and literature.If any of you had a similar experience or has any thoughts on this topic please reply.
<IMO> There is a very strong connection between music and the mind. To this day I can hear a song and it brings forefront in my thoughts the entire reality of a past experience. Sometimes I can feel something or smell something from the recalled event. I think this is universal.
About a book's characters. I prefer to visualize them myself by primarily what they do or say, after a short description.
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