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Silver_Meteor
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 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: Rocking to Music |
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When you rock back and forth or side to side when listening to a favorite song, does it add to the listening enjoyment?
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blackcat
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. It also produces a calming affect(for me).
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Absolutely! It releases this almost euphoric feeling through out my entire body. I will also get images of colors, and textures in my mind when I do this, at times. It's very calming. |
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unityemissions
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. I also do this when I have the music in my head while in public. It helps me to disconnect from anything and anyone else so that I can just be myself. Usually 30-60 seconds of this is an excellent meditative practice. I also walk around the block with my headphones blasting and have come to realize I have a bouncing stride to my walk.
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EvilKimEvil
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Yes.
I also like to ride my skateboard around in circles while listening to music. Unfortunately, I now have a mirror in the area where I do that - what a disaster waiting to happen! |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| EvilKimEvil wrote: | Yes.
I also like to ride my skateboard around in circles while listening to music. Unfortunately, I now have a mirror in the area where I do that - what a disaster waiting to happen! |
I like to run in circles while listening to music, though I do it in the cul de sac and sometimes things like people, trashcans, mailmen and cats get in my way. Ugh... But overall, it's a fun thing to do. |
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Blasty
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I can't help but move my feet to good music. If I'm pretty drunk (not a regular thing), I'll just sit and let my upper body writhe like a snake. It's weird but relaxing.
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I was definitely thinking of a different kind of rock when I clicked on this thread. Ah well.
I like singing along to music and miming instrument playing (and I can't actually play any instruments so this translates to random arm-waving.) Not so much rocking.
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Ryn
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Music is the single most stim inducing thing for me, and I love it. I rock and will wiggle my feet, but mainly I run around my room and act out whatever idea is going through my head at the time (typically an idea for a novel). When I can't stim when I'm listening to music I get antsy.
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LostInEmulation
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: |
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I always do that and always did that. My father often shouted at me when doing that and called me mentally insane or hospitalistic (in this neck of the woods, Asperger's is still widely unknown). 
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Funny thing is, most of the time when I rock while listening to music, it doesn't fit the beat.
If I'm rocking without music, I'll have a music or a rhythm in my head that will fit with the rocking, and I'll add other rhythms to it (like drumming with my hands/feet, little sounds, head movements, whatever).
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I tended to move to music without realizing I was doing it, so I forced myself not to because I was embarrassed, but then I'd start shaking and I'd be so afraid that people would think I was shaking to the music that I would finally just force myself to relax and go limp.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Rocking to Music |
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| Silver_Meteor wrote: | | When you rock back and forth or side to side when listening to a favorite song, does it add to the listening enjoyment? |
I think it's kind of fun to bob my head around... that's about as far as I go.
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beef_bourito
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| yes, although my favourite song changes often, it all depends on what kind of mood i'm in, but if i find the right song for the moment i rock |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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It sure does. Usually when I rock to music I flap my hands as well. And there are other times where I won't rock but I'll jump up and down while flapping my hands.
Usually I do this for relaxation, but at other times I do it as a sort of mental escape from reality for a little while, sometimes to the point of being able to fantasize myself doing something that I would never end up doing. For example, I'm a female, and when I hear one of my favorite female singers and start stimming, I can visualize myself on stage performing that song to thousands of people, almost to the point where I'm actually there.
However, I can't sing a single note in tune, so don't expect to be seeing me on that stage anytime soon. 
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