I am just being reminded these days of a phenomenon that seems to happen during the course of studying music (and probably other subjects too) and which I first became aware of during my first year of study with one of my teachers. This time was by far the most in-depth I had ever studied music at all.
I came to notice that a heightened awareness to shapes, forms, angles, textures and these things in general, was coming to my attention. I would walk around looking at everything through totally new eyes and everything around me took on a whole new meaning. I felt like music was everywhere around me. I felt very inspired about music. I still get these notions, but I have been thinking about this awareness lately. Here are my thoughts on this :
Everything is connected both internally and externally. As my studies in music were suddenly taking on a whole deeper meaning, my awareness in general perception was also being altered, and sharpened as it turns out. Music works primarily with the ear, and suddenly I was studying shapes and textures and all of the aspects involved with music in ways that I never had before -- or at least not for a really long time. I was becoming conscious of them in ways I had not been before.
Although with music, one is dealing very much with the auditory nerve, it is still just perception. And the perception of shapes and textures... etc. in any single way, will effect one's perception in general. Possibly even sharpening the other forms of perception, like visual perception.
I think this is all happening all the time, it is just that people become more aware of different aspects of it at different times. Also, a seemingly extreme sense of it seems to be connected to
inspiration -- or what I think of as some kind of shift in mentality. Often a flood of thoughts and ideas, questions.. and so on.
Does that make sense ? Also, have any of you people experienced anything like this (that you are aware of) ?
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