Taking "trips" while listening to music.

Ph1l2007 · Post by **Ph1l2007** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:53 am

Ok, I have to ask this because I want to feel a little less weird about doing this...

But yes, does anyone take "trips" whenever you listen to your favorite tunes? I'm not necessarily talking about using drugs to do so, but almost all the time when I turn on some of my favorite tunes, the music prompts me to conjure up all sorts of different imagery, like scenes from my favorite anime, or even picturesque images of distant landscapes or fantasy worlds. It's just something about the mood of some tunes that seriously take me someplace else, and it gives me goosebumps. I mean, it's like I can be at my desk at work, and this tune comes on, and next thing I know I am seeing like, an abandoned city street on a dark rainy night or something.

But recently I have forced myself to stop "tripping out" because I feel like I am a weirdo for doing it, and I'm into a certain style of music that a lot of people consider wierd. I dunno, I guess I have this inferiority complex I have to deal with. But I imagine that since people here are into making amv's that some people would know what I am talking about.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:12 am

All the freaking time. I guess I'm an escapist like that. It's fun, though.

Just be careful when you're driving. x:

Ijexis · Post by **Ijexis** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:14 am

I do that a bit. Especially if I plan on making an AMV with the song, then scenes from suitable anime starts flashing in my head and I try to fit them to the song coherently. Shame you're forcing yourself to stop doing it...

Ph1l2007 · Post by **Ph1l2007** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:34 am

LivingFlame wrote:All the freaking time. I guess I'm an escapist like that. It's fun, though.
Just be careful when you're driving. x:

Escapist. I like that term

Yeah, I know there is a time and a place for it, driving is def. not the time lol.

Immorrel · Post by **Immorrel** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:51 am

Ijexis wrote:I do that a bit. Especially if I plan on making an AMV with the song, then scenes from suitable anime starts flashing in my head and I try to fit them to the song coherently. Shame you're forcing yourself to stop doing it...

Ditto the above. Whenever I'm actively listening to music, I'm almost always seeing something. If the song doesn't pull something by itself, my brain starts running through all of anime I know trying to find something that might fit.

A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to? If my day is bad, I'll plug in a song I know will make me feel better. If I'm driving, I put something in that goes the speed I want to drive, or a fast song comes on the radio and my foot gets heavier. Any others out there, or am I my own special kind of weird?

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:24 pm

Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to? If my day is bad, I'll plug in a song I know will make me feel better. If I'm driving, I put something in that goes the speed I want to drive, or a fast song comes on the radio and my foot gets heavier. Any others out there, or am I my own special kind of weird?

I'm also like this. I guess I'm just really affected by music sometimes. Not to the point that it ever changes how I think about things, really, but I definitely listen to music based on how I'm feeling a lot of the time.

Ijexis · Post by **Ijexis** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:56 pm

Immorrel wrote:A bit of a digression now. Does anyone's mood get affected by the music you listen to?

Do I? Man, once I was feeling all tired and a bit gloomy then suddenly a Maximum the Hormone song came on and I just got all this energy back and started doing random karate chops around the place with a huge grin on my face, good thing I was by myself or people would have looked at me funny XD

Ph1l2007 · Post by **Ph1l2007** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:18 pm

Immorrel wrote:
Ijexis wrote:
Ditto the above. Whenever I'm actively listening to music, I'm almost always seeing something. If the song doesn't pull something by itself, my brain starts running through all of anime I know trying to find something that might fit.

That pretty much sums me up.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:48 pm

Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Kevmaster wrote:Infact, this is exactly why I listen to music O_o

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