Does anyone share this musical vision?
When I find a piece of music that I really like, some times it will generate a very specific set of visuals in my mind. The visuals usually involve playing modern music for less advanced civilizations, and imaginining their reaction.
Some times I may imagine traveling back in time with a band, and crashing a Beethoven concert, to see what people in the 1800’s make of heavy metal.
Other times I may imagine traveling in to the rain forest, to find a tribe that really love their drums. A tribe that has never seen man made fibers, much less an actual white man, and seeing what they make of some modern tribal techno being pumped out of massive equipment.
I think this is why I liked “back to the future” so much as a kid, it was the first movie to submit to my will, and give me one of the things I would have done if I had traveled in time.
Do any of you out there have similar visuals? the director of back to the future obviously did, but did anyone else?
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Does this have anything at all to do with Salvia?
@Cruiser Weed maybe, I have not touched salvia in years. But no, this is a kind of day dream I have had since I was a child.
Not that I am aware of. I tend to experience music as a more abstract, tron-like or Matrix-like space. Shapes and colors and lines connecting everything. Not specific visions.
But I could be making that up. I think that I quickly enter into another state—like a dream-state. In that state, I might see realistic images. And in that state, my idea about the matrix-space could be something my conscious brain placed on the experience afterwards.
So I don’t actually trust anything I say about this. At best it is metaphorical. At worst, a complete fabrication.
So what else is new?
I get a visual effect with some music. Certain sounds or musical notes produce images in my mind. It doesn’t happen all the time and the effect is quite subtle and hardly noticeable but it is there.
With some music, yes. I also do this with other things like certain products, commercials, dance moves, movies, tv shows, etc. I’d love to see the reactions of people from different eras ..even decades.
Yes. Very much so. I have a copy of this album of choral music, and like to imagine what a primitive tribe, somewhere in remote Africa would make of it. And all of it done with just the human voice!
Conversely, what ‘sophisticated’ Westerners first made of encountering beautiful music such as this coming out of Africa.
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