Sunday, October 13, 2013

Attraction to Sound

Psychologists say that our strongest sense is our sense of smell. One whiff of the disenfectant used to clean the halls of your elementary school and you are instantly brought back to that one week where you could just get your cursive z's right. 

If that's true, I think the sense of hearing might be second strongest. See, I take comfort in familiar sounds.

 Rain tapping on a roof instantly lulls me to sleep even when the day has included two cups of coffee and a handful of chocolate chips. 

Hearing my Dad's familiar cough in a crowded store is both cringeworthy and endearing- I know he hasn't for some mysterious reason, wandered too far off as he usually tends to do.

I think my attraction to sounds helped create my attraction to music. I link songs to events so often that it should be addend to my list of hobbies on Facebook. 

I'm learning that being in a new place shouldn't mean that I give this habit up- it was really important for me to go to the Tommy and the High Pilots show last night and sing along to songs that I know  every word to because it had such a sense of familiarity to it. 
Whatever string of emotions that I had previously attached to those songs has now expanded to include a night out in Chicago. 

It's cheesy to say but I the power that music can possess and I really wouldn't give up my little hobby for anything. 

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