vaguely related to visualization

[mizkit]

(Why is it I ever seem to manage a post with content on weekends, when no one is about? Nevermind that, I’ll post anyway.)

On the visualization topic of which I am so fond, a question of music:

Do you *hear* music in your head like you would hear a radio? Except inside your head, of course, not in your ears?

Because I don’t. Twice in my life I’ve

Comments

[bryant]

Nope, I hear the full thing inside my head. Huh!

[gows]

Full-on music, just as if I'm listening to it on a stereo. I woke up in the middle of the night earlier in the week and COULD NOT get back to sleep to due to the earworm playing on constant repeat in my head.

[cyranocyrano]

Yep. Earworm. Dolby 5.1 stereo surround, sometimes with video. However, as you may have guessed (4354325246 posts about my radio station), music is pretty integral to my life.

[jennielf]

Ditto on the hearing the whole thing in my head.

I think it really has to do with being a visual learner vs. audible learner vs. tactile learner. Which are you?

I am a mix of visual and audible (I blame all the audiobooks.) and the music in my head tends to take on visual representations sometimes...yeah, really hard to explain. :)

[mnarra]

That is not how it works for me. I see in my head, I hear in my head. I can sometimes feel in my head. I don't smell or taste in my head, though.

My hearing of things I imagine is sufficiently complete that I have difficulty not singing on beat with the music as I imagine it.

On a related subject, I carry visual/auditory/behavioral homonculi of some people around with me -- Aberdeen is there, for instance. They behave just appropriately, and are good for all sorts of smacking-Scott-upside-the-head duties when the real ones aren't around (or, in 'Deen's case, patting me on the head, pursing her lips, and looking tolerant).

This has actually been a problem when there are people in there that I wish to not associate with any longer.