How do you prefer your music listening experience?

Do drugs

>>73072432
I'm like this, too. First, get some iems with good isolation. Second, remember that music gets better with subsequent listens anyway, so don't get so precious about each one. Third, maybe try daily meditation; it can teach your mind to be more focused and less anxious.

or this
>>73072509

just listen to it really loud on a stereo so that the music is louder than all those other sounds but also if they do appear, they blend in more naturally since the sound is happening in a real space

>>73072432
probably is autism (or something else that qualifies as a 'condition' desu)

like speaking as an autistic person i actually find it pretty hilarious how often "autist" and shit gets thrown around on here when this place attracts a shitload of autistic/stuff up that alley behaviour (like the way a lot of people on here get carried away about music is very special interest-y, a lotta people here not exactly being naturally great at socialising.... i could go on, but i'm probably inviting people on here to go 'lel look at the autist cuck' enough as it is"

sucks to hear about the stress shit though, hope it stops bugging you so much. is it a busy timetable or just life shit?

Life shit, a lot of transitioning and trying to just get through to better things that worries me and causes me to become stressed. I guess it's a kind of fear of entrapment of life.

>>73072633
i was a lot like that a couple years ago

i mean ngl i've still got some stressful shit happening

but sometimes focusing on the future can be what helps, if that makes sense
like better things are still something you're able to get yourself to, even if they're not what you're able to have now, and once you've gotten to them then you don't have worry about them anymore
like the things you have to put up with now are something you can move through and then leave behind, even if now it feels like they might be cutting off your future

apart from that, i guess don't feel guilty about doing the things that do bring you some degree of joy and relaxation? you're allowed to put yourself first, especially when you need it

and i know it's pretty cliche, but try and make sure you drink enough water and get some decent sleep if you can. like it's not gonna fix the whole problem or anything, but i didn't even realise i wasn't meant to be feeling as fatigued as i used to until i actually tried doing it

It truly seems harder to listen to music anymore. For a side note: I play guitar, classically and jazz trained for over 11 years now(I also dabble in metal shred stuff) and I have no problem sitting there and playing guitar. It seems that it's because I care less about focusing SO much on my own playing because a recorded song it a space of sounds meant to be experienced.

I actually have been doing what you've been doing for the last 5 years, OP. Even now, I almost never listen to new music because it's never the "right time" - and because I've been proven right almost every time I've listened to something and realized "yes, I did it! It's the Right Time after all!"

And then I realized that every single experience you have with music will be the right time, because listening to it for the first time is special in its own right.

>the time I listened to The Brave Little Abacus on a whim and watched the sun rise, and the blue of the daylight matched what my synesthesia summoned
That was the right time.
>the time I listened to the first half of Equilibrium's "Sagas" in bed on shitty iPod earbuds because my 16 year old self was just too hype to wait for my headphones to come in a week
That was the right time.
>listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor without headphones on Youtube for the first time at 480p
That was the right time.

Everything you do and experience has intrinsic meaning, anon. You don't save things for special occasions: you make things special occasions. And if you have an experience two weeks after you listen to GY!BE for the first time, in which you fall asleep in a hole in the wall in San Francisco and wake up right at the climax of "Broken Windows, Locks of Love, Pt. III" and finally know what true love feels like, that's great.

But would I have had that experience had I first heard it on shitty laptop speakers and said, "yeah, that's good"? Probably not.

Now pick an album and make today special.

>tl;dr: faggot knows that feel and wants you to be happy, shit is performative, have a nice life

>>73072587
at least half of all boards and all of /b are somewhere on the spectrum

I know what you mean, I just wish I could do that nowadays without getting "triggered", so to speak, by car noises or some bullshit. Even songs I've listened to multiple times can be a daunting task at times when I feel they've been "interrupted" by some outside sound, sometimes by things even as silly as my stomach growling or one of my ears pop for whatever reason while trying to listen to that song. That causes me to feel the urge to start the song over until I am able to FINALLY listen to it without even MINOR interruptions. This can happen multiple times.

I have a friend who's like that, I once lend him my phone so he could check out "Closer" by NIN and he had to restart the song (Which is already about 7 minutes long or so) about 5 times, and I was starting to get pissed off because I wanted to reply to my girlfriend.
Seriously, just listen to it and see if you like it, then listen more attentively at home.

>>73073531
pretty sure that's either literally misophonia or something pretty close to it

That's a good song, I love NIN. What's misophonia?

>>73073688
when you've got some kinda sensitivity to/negative reaction that's triggered by specific sounds or groups of sounds that 'normal' people can handle just fine

idk for sure if "getting a reaction triggered by a whole bunch of sounds, in ways that are specifically fucking up me trying to listen to my music" would fall exactly under the definition of that (altho it's still something a little bit vague and only been researched for less than two decades), but it seems like it'd be some sort of related phenom even if it didn't "count"

http://www.misophonia.com/misophonia-self-test/
http://www.misophonia.com/symptoms-triggers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

How did this develop? I wasn't always like this. And like I said, I have no problem playing guitar.

>>73072432
You're fucking autistic, there's nothing else to it.
>le facebook dank frog
>muh gaymen
Fuck right off

Fuck right off for what? Why the unnecessary aggression?

>>73072432
>pepeposter
Your post is automatically disregarded

>>73074185
As shitty as it is, it's part of chan culture. You don't have to, and honestly probably shouldn't, partake.

It's cool, I'm a 4chan old timer. I just took it in stride, was mainly wondering why he got so triggered by Pepe. Pepe's a timeless classic.

LSD

>>73074185
For being meme fucking cancer. Fuck off back to Facebook and stay there

Someone's triggered. REEEEEEEEEEEE!