Comments on: It’s your mind, use it! https://jodilee.sacredtriskele.net/?p=771 wandering too far into a land beyond the mirror... Sun, 03 Apr 2016 19:40:05 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: helgaleena https://jodilee.sacredtriskele.net/?p=771&cpage=1#comment-10139 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:52:41 +0000 http://www.jodilee.ca/?p=771#comment-10139 I hereby rename you– bedlam bleeder. Muwahaha.

]]> By: Katey https://jodilee.sacredtriskele.net/?p=771&cpage=1#comment-10138 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:17:09 +0000 http://www.jodilee.ca/?p=771#comment-10138 I’ve been reading a lot of books and asking a lot of questions about neuroscience lately, and why we like the things (in particular music, but also art, stories, etc.) we like. One of the things that excites us most is something unexpected happening (forcing us to, as you say, use our brains instead of letting them sit there doing the same thing, waiting to be stuffed full of comfort food)– the melody suddenly going somewhere we didn’t see coming, the rhythm syncopating, etc. It can be done badly so it’s just chaos and sounds like noise to us, or it can be done just within the bounds of our limits, so that it pushes and excites us. But I guess the limit is in different places for different people. (Hence not everyone liking Stravinsky, particularly back in the day. This cool book called Proust was a Neuroscientist goes into detail about that one.) Some would call it pushing us out of our comfort zone to an exciting place, some would call it noise.

Hmm, that metaphor got pretty labored… but you know what I mean. I agree with you wholeheartedly on all of this. I see why it’s not for everyone– I don’t think everything should be for everyone because that’d be boring as hell. But I’m on Team Jodi! (I also like Stravinsky!)

]]> By: Cate Gardner https://jodilee.sacredtriskele.net/?p=771&cpage=1#comment-10137 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:51:32 +0000 http://www.jodilee.ca/?p=771#comment-10137 Well said, Jodi.

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