[plonter]

so you guys don't listen to music while hangin out in head fi??    I am having much more fun talking about gear while listening to music.

 

[Prog Rock Man]

^^^^^^ x2. If I am not surfing I am reading, but will regularly drift off with the music.

 

[indie_obsessed]

I do most of the intense music listening when i'm on the bus or the train. That's when my thoughts all centralise on the music i'm listening to, I analyse and visualize every song i listen to. and it transports me to another world.

 

[ajkda]

X2 ^^
 
But I will notice when a pretty girl aboard the bus and will look at her for awhile XD

 

[Young Spade]

Eyes closed for me. I can better accentuate where the music is coming from and focus on details much easier. Of course that comes with falling asleep on those late night sessions

 

[Achmedisdead]

I can have music as background while surfing, or reading something, but only as background. Why? Because I get drawn into whatever I am reading, and lose track of what I am listening to. I don't need to necessarily close my eyes to listen, in fact, I can have an enjoyable listen while taking a walk.....but reading just distracts me too much.
 
I do quite often listen in bed, with my eyes closed, but I don't limit myself to just that situation either....and there are times that I have fallen asleep that way, like Young Spade mentioned.

 

[Rossinator]

A lot of the time I will be doing things online or just on my computer while listening to music. Sometimes I get too distracted by what I am doing to enjoy the music, but most of the time it works. I used to occasionally listen to music and not do anything while I was, but that doesn't work well for me. I have a lot of things that will distract me and it works best if I keep myself busy. I will often stop what I am doing to really focus on a certain part of a song or one song though.

 

[dsf3g]

With eyes closed I tend to go to sleep (yea, even when listening to stuff like Black Sabbath). When I really want to concentrate on the music I go down to my home theater room and dim the lights to about 15 to 20% brightness.

 

[Deep Funk]

Depends, I prefer listening while just reading and surfing. If the music is good, it becomes impossible to read and surf and I am gone. Sometimes I purely concentrate on the music

 

[Sumflow]

  How do you keep it dry?
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  I can have music as background while surfing..

 

[Iniamyen]

 
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I can have music as background while surfing, or reading something, but only as background. Why? Because I get drawn into whatever I am reading, and lose track of what I am listening to. I don't need to necessarily close my eyes to listen, in fact, I can have an enjoyable listen while taking a walk.....but reading just distracts me too much.
 
I do quite often listen in bed, with my eyes closed, but I don't limit myself to just that situation either....and there are times that I have fallen asleep that way, like Young Spade mentioned.

I had to comment on this. I find this really interesting because my brain works in the exact opposite way. I tend to lack attention span when it comes to reading, but music will usually grab and hold my attention indefinitely. So if I'm trying to read while listening to music, I get distracted by the music, and can't read effectively. This probably is due to me having more stimuli as a kid from audio than from books.

 

[Achmedisdead]

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I had to comment on this. I find this really interesting because my brain works in the exact opposite way. I tend to lack attention span when it comes to reading, but music will usually grab and hold my attention indefinitely. So if I'm trying to read while listening to music, I get distracted by the music, and can't read effectively. This probably is due to me having more stimuli as a kid from audio than from books.

I was the opposite....a voracious reader especially as a kid, and I do still read a fair amount now. Never cared much about music until my teenage years.

 

 

[TobaccoRoad]

no option for all of the above?

 

[Mr Joboto]

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I voted option #2. I usually am surfing the net or doing something at the same time, but it would be a stretch to say I am really stimulated by it. What I am doing with my eyes is mostly mindless, as I usually end up focusing on the music.

Sounds like me

 

[Deep Funk]

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I was the opposite....a voracious reader especially as a kid, and I do still read a fair amount now. Never cared much about music until my teenage years.

 

The same here, I read my eyes to sleep. I still read a lot, just not everything like I used to do when I had more time. Music is like a good book sometimes, just a way of seeing it.