Do you enjoy the laughter?
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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a lot, feels amazing, especially since im unhinged and dont care what others think
Sounds like youβre enjoying the music, go with it my dude.
I've once read that music skips the logical part of the brain and goes directly to the emotional one
To the day, there ist still the intense shredder parts of the song "Heroes of our time" from DragonForce, that drives the sentimental tears of joy in my eyes.
But what I enjoy most, are crisp sounding hard and fast beats, like in jungle music or breakcore. I think it's not only the feeling of joy, but also a valve for my inner aggression. I like to turn it loud af, so that the world around vanishes and the only things of presence is this brutal, yet mind soothing sound which I like dancing to.
Popping in from all, not autistic but with my ADHD when listening to any electronic music (recommend some of Degitx if you like metal as well) I will kinda sway back slightly and forth with a huge grin on my face
I really only notice I do it with electronic music which is like #3 favorite behind fantasy adventure and metal
i may not alwayw physically move to music, like just a while ago from now, i just started to giggle and laugh at intensive parts of songs.
My GF calls it terminal headbanging when I do move
I don't always have this, but sometimes. My theory requires a couple of steps to understand, and I don't know if there's scientific support for any of them outside my own brain:
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I think that laughter happens when your brain makes an unexpected connection; like learning a surprising thing you didn't know (or have had difficulty figuring out in the past), or putting two unexpected things into an odd juxtaposition (like in a joke), or in seeing a thing you don't usually see (like with physical comedy), or in seeing a usually-successful person failing (schadenfreude).
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Music can make connections in your brain. I don't know how, but it can. Hearing a song will often take you back to a super random moment or a feeling or a time in your life; like, I have a strong connection between No Doubt's "Hey Baby" and riding a bus to a band competition in the early 00s, for instance. It doesn't even have to be a powerful moment (the bus ride certainly wasn't), it's all about your brain chemistry at that moment.
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If your brain chemistry is exactly right, and the music is exactly right, it can skip all reason and logic and make a connection in your brain unexpected enough to make you laugh. Not even one you'd necessarily be able to describe; but there's some neuron firing with another neuron now in a way it wasn't before.
This is pretty experimentally rock-solid in my own brain, but I haven't really investigated it anywhere else.