Music doesn't cause emotion
I think I have a problem.
From discussions with others, it seems that I get less from certain stimuli than they do.
Examples:
I only know what emotion music is trying to invoke when someone tells me. Once I understand, I can recognise it elsewhere
I have the DVD of Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra, but I end-up arguing with him when he says that any specific instrument is happy or sad.
I discovered, this evening, that ballet is supposed to evoke an emotion. I don't get it.
I've also just been told that modern art is supposed to connect in the same way. I don't find most modern art to be anything more than an intellectual exercise of the artist being self-regarding.
I have difficulty working-out what emotions people are exhibiting through their tone-of-voice. I have just realised that I intellectually try to determine emotions, using the words used, body language, etc.. And when I have emotions, I'm poor at conveying them through my own tone-of-voice. discodoris has just told me that when I try for sympathy, it sometimes comes across as patronising or sarcastic.
It's like a colour-blindness, but for emotions rather than colours.
I have tried to search online for what it could possibly be, but I don't even know what to search for (looking for antonyms to "synesthesia" came-up blank, and "music blindness" means something else).
I have reached 43 without it being an issue, so it's not something that I'd bother a doctor with. I would like to know if there's a recognised psychological term for it, though.
From discussions with others, it seems that I get less from certain stimuli than they do.
Examples:
I only know what emotion music is trying to invoke when someone tells me. Once I understand, I can recognise it elsewhere
I have the DVD of Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To The Orchestra, but I end-up arguing with him when he says that any specific instrument is happy or sad.
I discovered, this evening, that ballet is supposed to evoke an emotion. I don't get it.
I've also just been told that modern art is supposed to connect in the same way. I don't find most modern art to be anything more than an intellectual exercise of the artist being self-regarding.
I have difficulty working-out what emotions people are exhibiting through their tone-of-voice. I have just realised that I intellectually try to determine emotions, using the words used, body language, etc.. And when I have emotions, I'm poor at conveying them through my own tone-of-voice. discodoris has just told me that when I try for sympathy, it sometimes comes across as patronising or sarcastic.
It's like a colour-blindness, but for emotions rather than colours.
I have tried to search online for what it could possibly be, but I don't even know what to search for (looking for antonyms to "synesthesia" came-up blank, and "music blindness" means something else).
I have reached 43 without it being an issue, so it's not something that I'd bother a doctor with. I would like to know if there's a recognised psychological term for it, though.