Music is a very important part of my life. I can not imagine my life without music. It would be like going through life blind, that is a part of my awareness of the world would be blocked out. When we listen to music latent parts of our brain are tapped into and accessed that can not be accessed though words. Music is important because it brings us to another world, a world in which we can feel an
How music lost its importance in my life – A personal experience
Many years ago I could not imagine getting up without music. It was always the first thing I did, turn on some music. If I was in the shower or studying or in the car I always was tuned in. I love classical music but also reggae and popular music well just about every genre. I use to say there is only two types of music, good music and bad music. That is good blue and bad blues, but not genre of music that was not significant.
Then I had this bleeding in the brain. I am OK now, but at the time it affected my cognitive functions. One of the things that seemed to happen was I could not feel music as much. It no longer gave me this other worldly quality. It was amazing how some neurological physical brain change would change my personality and my sense of self.
I felt cheated. I felt something was taken from me. I tried playing my old favorites and it did nothing for me. I became much more intellectual and analytical without music. A lot of the joy left my life. I was still happy but my life seemed flatter, something was missing.
My MP3 collection was worthless. I played chess instead of listening to music.
How the importance of music came back into my life again
I got to a point where I felt mildly depressed my old self was gone. I was alone and started to look for very sad music. I remember sitting and trying to listen to this. There was not rush no joy as I think those sensory areas of my brain music have been damaged with some bleeding with my brain lesion. Again I was frustrated. Music was not important to me. I would almost cry.
However, I found myself enjoying this music because I was saying to myself, I can not feel it. This music is not important to me any more. It ironically got me more depressed. And there you have it. It is better to feel pain then nothing at all. Music was invoking feeling in me again. It was not because the sounds it make but because of what I could not feel and experience. Maybe not the way I remembered it did, but it was having an affect on me. Music was moving me.
Therefore, I kept listening. Slowly I would play healing music and other types of music. Gradually with time, I mean years, music got its old feel back. Music is important to me again. I guess the brain has a lot of plasticity and music actually I felt helped the healing. Now I love music again. If anything it has a even more special place and importance. It helped connect me to my old self. With usic I was brought back to the source.
How music was started
There is a myth that says when man first discovered he was alone on this planet in the forest he screamed. This was the first song. I think there is a lot of truth to this.
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