This post summarizes my personal experience of the passing of time while jogging, roller-blading or bicycling and listening to music of either fast or slow tempo. The idea for this post emerged because i began to notice that my experience of time passing varied consistently depending on whether i was jogging, rollerblading or bicycling and [...]
A while back, it was pouring rain. I got rained on going to work and started my day with damp shoes and a wet head. The rain had been falling for a couple of days straight and i was starting to think god had given up on us as i usually do when it rains [...]
A lot of the interest in the neurology of music seems to focus on a special kind of physical experience which people have in relation to music. That experience consists of what some call: “chills” which arrive as the consequence of listening to music which one finds very moving. I have personally experienced those “chills” [...]