Getting High off Music

When you listen to music do you get a high? Do you go into a trance? If so what music does this for you? I tend to see colours when I listen to music and completely let go and relax.

I was going to say that exact same Radiohead song. They are mind blowing at times, that and Bodysnatchers i was about to mention ha. Late of the Pier as well is another band which sprung to mind.

Lots of different music does it for me, and it also depends on my mood at the time. Usually I listen to that music till I am sick of it and then don't listen to it again till much later. Then the process repeats

Fleet Foxes put me in that place anytime, anywhere.

I'm too temperamental, especially for Radiohead...but something truly aesthetic does make me very calm, relaxed and contemplative.

I need lyrics, I find too much instrumental to be meandering and self indulgent, so I get irritated.

Nothing quite like some desert sessions to weird me out.

Throw in some Aes Dana, Vibrasphere, Solar Fields, and Aural Floats for some good measure.

Carbon Based Lifeforms are very cool, I've never heard them before, but I'll definitely check them out.


Something kinda similar

Originally Posted by God

Carbon Based Lifeforms are very cool, I've never heard them before, but I'll definitely check them out.

They're definitely worth it. I bought both their albums after a couple of listens since they're mainly atmospheric and are pretty good for relaxing/creating moods. Walkin' with Jesus was interesting, Astral Projection does sound like a few songs by Vibrasphere and Aes Dana.

Another song similar, but a little more refined than the ambient trance groups :

Do people see colours when they listen to music? All the above are ing amazing for me in terms of that, whenever I close my eyes.

Well I haven't been high on music (or anything else for that matter) nor have I seen colors from listening to it. However, some songs kinda makes me just sit and listen and may suddenly end without me noticing it or thinking of it, even if I listened closely. Like this one:



From 4:37 onwards I can easily be lost in thoughts while listening. It's such a brilliant song, but the end is very abrupt!

I drew this after listening to this song.



Its reminds me of that feeling of growing up in Ireland at times in the country.

I can get high of pretty much any type of music. But it's esiest while listening to stuff with many different instruments playing at the same time. Or stuff with lyrics that make images pop up in my head that fits with the style and melody of the song.

I regularly feel a 'high' when listening to Nine Inch Nails. The album Still for instance gives me a case of the chills every time I listen to it. Songs like 'The Day the World went Away' and 'And All That Could Have Been' never fail to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and send a tingle down my spine.

I got a 'high' when I first heard Maggot Brain, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Movement VIII from Vangelis' El Greco, and Like Spinning Plates, among other songs/pieces and albums.

I find the effect lessens each time I listen to the same thing. Though that doesn't mean I enjoy it less, just in a different way.

To get high on music I listen to Steve O

Yeah umm...listen only if you're mature enough, please it's just a song

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Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull

trance/techno

put on my own personal 25 minute mix of tiesto, benassi, milkman, caspa/rusko and others and i start sucking on my thumb and going numb..

i cud upload it if anyone was interested ( im a dj- sort of )

Originally Posted by Sipahizade

trance/techno

put on my own personal 25 minute mix of tiesto, benassi, milkman, caspa/rusko and others and i start sucking on my thumb and going numb..

i cud upload it if anyone was interested ( im a dj- sort of )

go ahead dude.

Radiohead's "All I Need" is mine I reckon, along with Muse's "Hyper Chondriac Music". Both really slow tempo songs that get me every time.