Have you ever had a situation where you are listening to music and someone comes and tells you to either reduce the volume or stop it!
Now of course the reason is that one persons music may actually be another person’s noise! In fact there are some hard rock noise which many people enjoy as music!
There are those who even like music which is so bad that it is good!
You may even have people who say that they do not like this particular type of music though they prefer some other type like classical or devotional or religious.
Some may listen to music just for the lyrics while may listen to it may be because the video accompanying the music is good! Many popular songs are universally liked by all and mostly everyone enjoys it in his or her own way!
Now that is normal! But there are a group of people who absolutely do not like any type of music! Not even poetry! Now this is rare but it is seen in a neurological condition called the “musical anhedonia” which was first used in 2011. It was originally used to describe the selective loss in emotional responses to music following damage to the brain. It has now come to mean, more generally, a selective lack of pleasurable responses to music in individuals with or without brain damage. This has led to the recognition of two different types of musical anhedonia in which in the first type there is actually no neurological damage and its incidence in the general population is low: between 3% and 5%. While the second type in which the incidence is even lower develops as a result of brain damage.
There is another condition where the person cannot recognize music! That is called Musical Agnosia and it is the “inability to recognize music in the absence of sensory, intellectual, verbal, and amnesic impairments”.
There is still one more disorder related to music or sound. You hear your spouse breathing nearby and you instantly get angry! Your 6-year-old yawns and it triggers a fight-or-flight reaction in you! You avoid restaurants because you can’t stand the sound of chewing. Sounds other people don’t even seem to notice, drive you up a wall.
This condition is called misophonia in which people are affected emotionally by common sounds — usually those made by others, and usually ones that other people don’t pay attention to. The examples above (breathing, yawning, or chewing) create a fight-or-flight response that triggers anger and a desire to escape!
As far as I am concerned, I love music! Each and every kind or type of music and like each type for different reasons!
Music can lift you up and make you compassionate and stir your emotions in ways you may even not realise! It can literally propel you like a rocket! Thinking of rocket, I am reminded of the Rocket man A. P. J. Abdul Kalam on this republic day!
Happy Republic day!
Now listen to soft instrumental music and sleep!
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