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While we're all talking about internal imagery, does anyone have an equivalent 'deafness' in music? If I concentrate hard I can very clearly hear music as if I
by anitil 8y ago
While we're all talking about internal imagery, does anyone have an equivalent 'deafness' in music?
If I concentrate hard I can very clearly hear music as if I'm listening to it, though I often need to subvocalize to keep it on track
- gwern 8y agoThere's amusia, which is being tone-deaf; there's musical anhedonia (not enjoying or being emotionally moved by music); and anecdotally there are very large differences in ability to hear music - Beethoven, of course, but you can see a mention elsewhere in the comments of another composer, and here's one anecdote I was amazed by: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/agfbt1/am_i_weird_thread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/agfbt1/am_i... "This is why my favorite thing to do is drive and listen to music. I have thousands of songs I have coded to mental movies, all of which are (to me) incredibly exciting. It's legitimately more pleasurable than sex. I don't have much drive towards TV and books because I have this. I've never actually asked if other people can do this. AFAIK, it's just a me thing." (Although maybe he's just really bad at sex.)