I was cutting up onions and I'm uh, allergic to this song!

Apparently I can’t come up with my own ideas to blog about. Maybe everyone else just has good ideas to talk about and their post has effectively made me think and ponder about the subject!

My guilty pleasure is reading the GUILTY PLEASURES AND A GIRLS OPINION. She last post was about a certain event she occasionally experiences when listening to music. She describes getting goose bumps and a feeling of “serenity and peace”.
I’m sure most people have experienced this sensation in one way or another so no need to feel ‘crazy’. For me myself, state is reached during music as well. This is probably because music is something that I can understand and open myself to completely. It can probably be reached visually to an artist or painter when they see a beautiful work or just the beauty of nature. I’m not trying to say that visual people always 100% reach it visually or musicians always get there listening to music, it’s different for everyone. It always seems to happen for me when I’m listening to an instrumental break of a song.

The one I most vividly remember is when I was listening to Jimi Hendrix’s “Moon, Turn the Tides…Gently Gently Away” in my car, the volume cranked. It was spring and the windows were rolled up. This is an important detail. I was stopped at a red light as the 9 minute epic was just picking up. I’d say probably around the two minute mark for those of you who might go take a listen afterwards. When Mitch Mitchell starts hammering on the bell of the ride and guitar starts swelling from your left to right and back again, this is when it happened. Because the volume was loud and the windows were up, the sound consumed my car and I was sitting in the middle of it. The swells from the speaker to speaker hit me so much hard. I’m not sure what this is called, maybe the ‘music geek’ can tell me what this technique is called? But, just something about the chaos of it all but the intricacies of each individual part just overwhelmed me with emotion. The intense lead drumming and Noel Redding’s speedy bass runs really contributed to the moment. When Jimi comes in with vocals, this is when the feeling came down.

Physically during this process, my heart rate increased. I could sense my breath becoming shorter and quicker. A rush of emotion went through my body. From my stomach to head I believe. It was a simple yet complex emotion. I think the best way to describe it was many simple emotions erupting at once. It was a hot emotion, almost like when you get so flustered and mad you don’t know what you’re going to do. But there was a calm serenity through it all. That’s when it happened, my eyes started watering and when I realized this, I caught myself and calmed myself down a bit. I was a little disoriented after the little ordeal. I remember the light turning green and I had to drive cautiously because I couldn’t see clearly and my mind felt hazy.

I think it’s really an amazing thing when people can open themselves up to something and let it take over your mind and body, even if it’s for a couple seconds. I find this phenomenon to be some sort of divinity with some sort of higher power, whether it is with nature, a collective consciousness of human emotion or unicorns.
I’d like to hear any stories of personal experiences if you have any!

Boy, now that I step back and see what I just wrote, I do kind of sound crazy.