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> Music-generated feelings only transfer easily to imagined perceptions Not trying to be difficult here but what does this mean? What is an imagined perception
by fenwick67 7y ago
> Music-generated feelings only transfer easily to imagined perceptions
Not trying to be difficult here but what does this mean? What is an imagined perception vs a real one?
- zuminator 7y agoMy take on this is, you're watching a movie that takes place in the winter. Wintry music is playing. All of a sudden the "cold" music along with the scene of an icy blizzard gives you a slight chilly sensation. Afterwards you go outside and it's a blazing hot summer day. You put on the soundtrack to the movie but in this case, it doesn't make you feel any cooler. Or conversely it's freezing cold outside, but even so the wintry music doesn't actually make you feel any colder than you already do. In the situations described above, the music was able to affect your imagined perceptions, not your real ones.
- pjdorrell 7y ago“Hot” and “cold” are not, as far as I know, feelings that music can express.
- loons2 7y agoI used to work in a machine shop in Florida that had no air conditioning. Summer time was always barely bearable. A woman who worked there would sometimes complain about the heat, sweat beading on her forehead. I'd think of a certain piece of music (this was ~25 years ago, so I don't recall what music now) and goosebumps would pop up on my arms. I'd tell her I really didn't see how she could be hot, because... "Look, I'm actually a bit chilly." Even though it quite amused me, she never seemed to be amused, though at some level, maybe she was. She kept coming back to complain after all even when she knew what my response would be. I can, for the most part, now produce goose bumps without thinking of any music. I just feel the feeling that produces them (lovejoycompassion*awe), and they pop up, often accompanied by a lump in the throat and/or catch in the breath. The subconscious has little ability to distinguish between imagination and reality, in the sense of, e.g. one who has a fear of flying will display the same physiological manifestations whether he's boarding a plane, or just imagining boarding a plane. The subconscious reacts the same to the perception regardless of whether that perception is through the mind's eye or the physical eye. This is how NLP works. By inducing the reaction in a safe space, it can be minimized or eliminated. Once minimized/eliminated in the office (or wherever), it remains minimized in the triggering circumstance.
- pjdorrell 7y agoAn imagined perception is a perception that depends on the perceiver making some effort to suppose that something is true. It could be a daydream, or it could be when you watch a fictional film, which requires you to imagine that it is real, even though you know that actually it is not real. Real perception is when you are perceiving something that you know is real.