Where does your mind travel when listening to music?
Does it take you on a journey of memories?
- The smell of a loved one's tobacco pipe.
- A vision of your childhood home.
- The first taste of a lover's kiss.
- The sound of waves crashing in the winter.
- The sticky touch of cotton candy melting on your fingertips.
All it takes is the first few notes of a song and we're transported on a cognitive journey of memories and emotions that subside or vanish when that song is over. We might feel a lingering nostalgia in the moments following a tune and then we let that feeling go. We go back to folding laundry, running errands, or some other typical task. Life has a way of distracting us from reflecting on our intrinsic experiences, when, in fact, we should be clinging to those moments. Those moments when our memories or emotions are more transparent to us than in the space that surrounds them.
I have created this space to start a conversation on experiences sparked by our universal love for music. I welcome you to answer this question in any creative, scientific or philosophical way you can: When the music is on, where do you go?
All it takes is the first few notes of a song and we're transported on a cognitive journey of memories and emotions that subside or vanish when that song is over. We might feel a lingering nostalgia in the moments following a tune and then we let that feeling go. We go back to folding laundry, running errands, or some other typical task. Life has a way of distracting us from reflecting on our intrinsic experiences, when, in fact, we should be clinging to those moments. Those moments when our memories or emotions are more transparent to us than in the space that surrounds them.
I have created this space to start a conversation on experiences sparked by our universal love for music. I welcome you to answer this question in any creative, scientific or philosophical way you can: When the music is on, where do you go?
