What happens to your brain when you stop listening to music?

I like music but i think it woudnt be so hard. Why would you cuf off music? Are you addicted to constant noises everywhere around you?

 

Over the past year or so, I've greatly reduced the amount of time I spend listening to music. Recently I had a period of about 2 weeks where I didn't listen to any music; there did appear to be a subtle state of mental clarity which seemed to manifest. It was as though a hidden silence accompanied me. Although, I still listen to music now, it's not even close to as much as I did before.

 

Over the past years the way I listen to music as changed a lot, along with the genres. My favorite music used to be very atmospheric metal music. Long, drawn-out pieces that take you to places and create moods you haven't felt before. This music is such that you totally immerse yourself in it. Now I can hardly listen to it anymore because I feel like I'm losing contact with the world. It creates a sort of parallel universe you escape into, not unlike video games. I needed this music to give room to the darer reaches of my psyche, but I don't need it anymore. If I listen to it, it's only in very small and rare doses.

Nowadays I listen to music that is more in the here and now. I am starting to like improvised music. This music is not as intense (personally I don't think anything can top the intensity of that otherworldly stuff I listened to for me), but it feels healthier. I also listen to far less music in general.

So... I think it all has a lot to do with the way you listen to music and the type you are listening to!

 

someone on here thinks music is a relapse

 

TRIGGERED! This post made me listen to 21 Guns by Green Day and FUCKED ME UP! Gotta go post that I relapsed on the NoMusic forums...


Sigh.

 

Honestly, OP brings up a good question. I may try this myself and see if I notice any results. One thing I need to cut down on is the amount of YouTube Let's Plays I listen to (I treat them like podcasts.)

I need to find other things to do with myself...

 

Its a good thing to be addicted to music because you can become a musician so its not so bad

 

Iggy, what's this I hear about you re-joining Guns N' Roses?

 

What's your favorite song(s)?

 

I make music and I love listening to it too. It's one of the most important things in my life, when I'm started doing it, then instantly I was like: "I will do it through my whole life". Amazing feeling.
So I can't live without it, one day is too much for me

 

It was... I realized that moments after I posted about Iggy. Oh well! I get a D for effort.

Isn't Azalea the chick that sings Black Widow Baby (or whatever)?

 

Thank you!!