Not particularly related to ASD except that we all seem to love music so much & it's something positive/happy that I thought I'd share:
I sometimes absolutely love paying attention to the bits of music that most people probably don't notice, for example focussing on just the bass guitar, or the hi-hat, or the little twiddles and odd sounds that get thrown into the mix here and there. Sometimes gives me goose bumps.
I think music's one of the greatest achievements of humans.
100% agree. It's one of those subjects I sometimes completely over-think. Like why are we genetically programmed to feel emotion to certain sounds? What is the benefit to that in nature? Some music is so beautiful it makes people cry. Does anybody else find this absolutely fascinating? I struggle with words and emotions when communicating with other humans yet I can be moved to tears by a piece of a music? I have no problem expressing emotion to it... Weird.
We're instinctively afraid of the colour red, we're instinctively afraid of loud bangs - I get the benefit of this with regards to survival. So why on the flip side are we drawn to beautiful sounds/music? This type of stuff can't be taught, you can't teach yourself to become emotional to a certain genre of music - you either are or you aren't.... I like to think we're programmed to be happy, we have a code that ensures we can find happiness in this odd but amazing world we live in. Or maybe it's because I've had a large can of energy drink....
