Music!

Sometimes, I want to live and breathe music. Not that I want to compose it; I've no talent for that. Nor even that I want to play it; though there are instruments I'd like to learn for fun. No. There's just a feeling I get when I'm listening to it, especially to certain songs or artists. Something inside just wants to get out, to move. I courses through me. I'll plug into my ipod and, for lack of a better coin of phrase, escape. I'm in my mind but I'm not. I'm in my body but I'm not. Almost like my soul, or some deeper part of me, beats in rhythm to whatever I'm listening to. Synchronized. It often evokes all sorts of emotions. I'll cry. I'll smile. I'll feel incredibly elated or determined or justified. Whatever emotion the song wants to pull out of me. Whatever emotion that I am most feeling that day can be found in almost any song. But it's the music that pulls it out. No matter what emotion, I always feel much more peaceful afterward. And inspired.

As I think back, music has always seemed to have this effect on me, whether it was good music or, what I now deem not-so-good music. Songs and bands I wouldn't listen to now, at one time evoked that peaceful feeling. I remember sitting in the family room of my old house, on the couch by the bay window and right in front of the pellet stove. I'd lay there with my CD Player (yes, an actual CD Player...made for playing one CD at a time!) and be in a different world. I'd visualize scenarios according to songs and have the characters and plot all worked out. I'd run it over and over in my head, though usually nothing would change much. It was addicting, these dreamscapes. Still is.

Right now I'm listening to a playlist I made for when I am working on my novel. It usually gets me in the mindset of writing that particular story, sometimes offering ideas for plot while other times sinking me into certain characters and the various things they have gone through or have yet to go through. Tonight it motivated me to write a blog.

I find it utterly amazing how music can have so much of an affect on us (I'm counting on my not being the only one to experience such things).



Some songs I'm in tune with:
'Atlantic' by Thrice
'Hide and Seek' by Imogene Heap
'Starlight' by Muse

Anyone out there have any songs that does this to them? Post a comment.