Day 4
Integration
I had extended stretches like this throughout the past few years, where I even shunned music completely. Music is a pretty integral part of my life, so it’s not something I want avoid to feel ‘normal’. I realized back then that I can enjoy instrumental music without any drawbacks during those periods. Naturally, my instrumental music collection grew steadily since then.
Now, I am reaching for purely instrumental music once more. It’s like a mixture of having reached a maximum treshold of listening to sung words and having a need to immerse myself in wordless soundscapes. Interestingly, normal talking and written language seem to be completely separated from this.
It’s as if I have a need to temporarily avoid decoding or abstracting meaning of spoken words from sound. Just letting my brain being washed in sounds, decoding them without engaging in word processing. A bit like a fallback into a mode before language. Either something from a very young age in my life or something very old from an animalistic-evolutionary point of view. Or something completely different.
Be it from the rhyme structure, be it from the singing itself embedded in music, the words bypass some part of my conscious mind, embed themselves and replay non-stop. It’s really a trivial thing. But I want to develop a method for myself to be consciously able to stop this at will. My mind, my temple, my rules.