How does music make you feel/does it help you focus

[BENZOOKA]

Music can do anything. Even the same kind of music can cause different feelings and fit into many different situations. Too subjective and vague of a topic to drill deeper into.

I like to listen especially to Blockhead when working. Also when happy, thoughtful, sad, or anything really. I love it.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

It's actually quite bad to listen to music while learning something for the first time. It uses up parts of your brain that could be, well you know.. learning. And thus why my maths teacher only allows music when we're doing revision.

OT: I listen to NIN, due to the fact that in one album they can have songs that feel a wide variety of emotions. Pretty good stuff.

 

[TeeBs]

This makes me feel everything there ever was ever.

But other then my current most fapped about song I usually listen to music that compliments my mood, Girl Talk when i'm in a feel good party mood, My Little Pony OST when i'm in a feel good childish mood, Radiohead when i'm in a thinking mood, Nujabes when i'm in a meditating mood, Empire Empire (I was a Lonely Estate) when i'm depressed, Circle Takes the Square when i'm angry and The Prodigy when I feel pumped.

 

[Macrine]

I'm always happiest when I'm listening to music, it's my favorite thing in life. Certainly doesn't help me focus though, all I can think about is the music.
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[aLivingPheonix]

I love music. I would go insane without it. It helps keep my mind from wandering, and helps me think.

 

[Sepphyre]

For about the last 10 years or so I have listened to my music at work through headphones. It helps me to focus, given that I am a programmer and I cannot stand the typical background office noise which I find distracting.

The great Dream Theater clip above is the sort of thing I would listen to.

 

[thylasos]

Oh certainly. I tend to listen to Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Leonard Cohen, Art Blakey, and so on when I'm working... Late 50s early 60s jazz, basically.

In terms of just chilling out or when I'm reading I'll tend to have some English or Irish folk, and when I've got people round it tends to be a mixture of 60s soul and rock, as well as a bit of solid 70s funk.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I'm a music obsessive. I love it, I write it, I perform it...it's tops in my book.

Having music on in the background would destroy any other kind of productivity. I hear music and I focus in on it, terrible for studying for my driving test, trying to play a game or having a conversation in a pub.

Aye, I'm exactly the same. Often if there's music on, I'll start drifting off when I know there's a great bit coming up or something, which would certainly annoy someone talking to me, so yeah, I just listen to music when I'm not doing anything else.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

It used to be that I couldn't study without listening to music, helped me focus for some reason. Nowadays I need total silence or I get distracted like I have a severe case of ADD.

 

[DugMachine]

I listen to music at pretty much all times. In school it helped me focus by giving me something to block out all the random chit chat of other students. The only thing I can't really do when listening to music is read a book.

Also, for me music can bring out just about any emotion. It just depends on what type of music I'm listening to.

Same I can do anything else with music except read. I love playing Xbox with some good trance on it usually gets me in the mood and I dominate. Also at school for drowning out annoying people when I need to. But books I have to give full attention to.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I find my zen aboard the Ebon Hawk. For the uninitiated, that's the starship you travel and have shenanigans in in Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic series.

I recorded the ambience of the ship - the low droning engine noise, faint intermittent beeps and buzzes helps me sleep. I haven't tried it for productivity - but I should probably avoid mixing the two in case I accidentally condition my brain to be active when I hear this sound when I have mainly recorded this sound so I can fall asleep to it.

WOW... thats... actually quite tempting, is there any way you could sent it to me, as a wav. file or something (I'm not the most computer literate so I'm not sure if that makes sense or not)

On topic, I usually have music on in the background, I have about 200 rock songs on spotify that I listen to.

 

[TipsyPeaches]

it's gonna sound odd, but I tune music out to focus. Like if I have a band I like, such as Elbow or Biffy Clyro playing in the background, it's really easy to tune it out and focus on whatever I'm working on. Has to be a band i like though, otherwise I just get entirely distracted by it.

 

[godfist88]

when i'm drawing, having the right music playing in the background can give me the inspiration I need. EX: when i want to draw something intense i listen to Celldweller, and if i want to draw something goofy, or generally offbeat i listen to Anamanaguchi.

 

[MisterGobbles]

I'm a music obsessive. I love it, I write it, I perform it...it's tops in my book.

Having music on in the background would destroy any other kind of productivity. I hear music and I focus in on it, terrible for studying for my driving test, trying to play a game or having a conversation in a pub.

Aye, I'm exactly the same. Often if there's music on, I'll start drifting off when I know there's a great bit coming up or something, which would certainly annoy someone talking to me, so yeah, I just listen to music when I'm not doing anything else.

I didn't used to be as into music as I was, and I found that I could sleep to music and such. However, now that it's practically my life, I find that if I listen to music while I'm sleeping, I usually can't fall asleep until the album is over, simply because I am actually listening to it.

But my dad is also a very big music fan, and he pretty much HAS to have music on when he's reading/driving/grading papers. I guess it works differently for different people.

 

[II2]

Autechre and their body of work have always been great contemplative, "thinking cap" music.

(Usually) they get how to make repetitive 'minimal' music into something genuinely interesting.

 

[Julianking93]

Music is quite an amazing thing to me.
It can bring me out of depression when I'm at my lowest and keep me happy for days on end.
It can help me focus as well, but if I'm too busy wanting to dance to Maximum the Hormone then I can't stay focused for too long >.>