How does music effect your brain chemistry?
musicismylife78
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this isnt in the music forum because it doesnt relate to music persay, but its effects. Wondering what you all thought music's effects on a person are.
How does music effect how we carry out our daily lives? How does it alter us? If someone spends every waking moment listening to music, going to shows, or thinking about those first two, how does that change someone? Do you think if one is reared on The Clash, Dead Kennedys and uncle Bruce that their morals and ideals skew towards the views expressed in said music? Do you think it effects people differently depending on how much of their lives is taken up by it? Different for a person who just listens to music on the car ride to work and back, as opposed to someone who has an Ipod in their ears ALL the time? Can music mold us into someone we want to be, or conversely someone we dont want to be?
this is a serious topic, even though it might seem like its not.
I think part of it, relates to my own search for these answers. Music has always been important to me, but at some point it because EVERYTHING to me. I am sure music has changed me, and I am sure it continues to change me, but how, and what changed I dont know
How does music effect how we carry out our daily lives? How does it alter us? If someone spends every waking moment listening to music, going to shows, or thinking about those first two, how does that change someone? Do you think if one is reared on The Clash, Dead Kennedys and uncle Bruce that their morals and ideals skew towards the views expressed in said music? Do you think it effects people differently depending on how much of their lives is taken up by it? Different for a person who just listens to music on the car ride to work and back, as opposed to someone who has an Ipod in their ears ALL the time? Can music mold us into someone we want to be, or conversely someone we dont want to be?
this is a serious topic, even though it might seem like its not.
I think part of it, relates to my own search for these answers. Music has always been important to me, but at some point it because EVERYTHING to me. I am sure music has changed me, and I am sure it continues to change me, but how, and what changed I dont know
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I'm a huge believer that music can change a life, but can only point to my own anecdotal experiences. Music played a big part in keeping me alive and functioning when my brain chemistry went in the other direction. Sure, there were other contributing factors, but music was huge. Nothing will convince me otherwise.
If I still had access to an academic library, I'd love to do a search to see if anyone's tried to "objectively" answer some of your questions. Perhaps someone else could gig a little?