The interesting thing about music, is its ability to change your mood. This in itself is obvious, but most of us only see this through the physical genres ie RnB and Rock. Of course, one will become to feel rather sad if they spend the day listening to depressing My Chemical Romance or angry and aggressive if they only started listening to Slipknot. But have any of us noticed that the rhythm at which we do things is affected by the tempo of the music we listen to?
Right, so i was typing on the computer during an IT lesson the other day, whilst listening to my all time favourite artists Pendulum. I suddenly begin to notice that the rate i type/second was in time with the music and that my heartbeat was working so much faster, almost in fact trying to keep up with the rhythm of the song. I realise that everything i was doing, i was doing much faster, almost as if i was high.
You may be thinking that this is just plain weird, but the ironic thing is, most hypnoticians do it and so do Shamans. Shamans specifically beat drums that have this tribal feeling to them. Once you have heard them enough, you kind of become entranced (think of Jesus Walks by Kanye West). I know this because my old Religious Studies Teacher tried it on us, and hes not exactly qualified in Shamanism. Hypnoticians similarly swinging a pencil of a pocket watch in the air, gives us this sense of controlled rhythm which takes us over.
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