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Previously reading on this topic and found out only a small percentage of people feel music emotionally. I was very curious, as my experiences are very intense,
by yrcyrc 4y ago
Previously reading on this topic and found out only a small percentage of people feel music emotionally. I was very curious, as my experiences are very intense, from frisson to full blown breakdown, chills, crying and overwhelmed completely.
Was recently 'diagnosed' as gifted but there's no explanation as to why I feel music so intensely. Perhaps part of the whole thing, I became an autodidact musician and music is pure bliss to my ears.
- plutonorm 4y agoI'm probably on the gifted spectrum (145 or something on raven matrices online test) and music is indescribably beautiful to me. Not always but often. Music also often makes me laugh, when it discovers an unusual space. I get the same emotional reaction to new intellectual insights.
- fristechill 4y agoI've experienced frisson at great moments in music but only when fantasising about performing the music (or some part of it) myself. I did a lot of this as a teenager...