If sound is just vibration of surrounding molecules, then why can some sounds make you happy,sad,angry,etc...?
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This is like asking "if water is just made of hydrogen and oxygen, how does is quench my thirst." These emotions from sound are like that of smell, it is all memory association. This changes with every person and if I hear something, can it truly make me feel drunk, or do I feel what I perceive to be drunk?
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Crying is an emotional reaction to a thought or stimulation, just like joy or anger.  Any emotional reaction produces a release of adrenaline and hormones into the bloodstream causing the body muscles to tense up for a fight-or-flight response.  However, this release can over produce adrenaline and actually cause your diaphragm - a muscle moving the lungs - to stiffen and stop breathing.  If severe enough, the adrenaline can even produce heart attacks.
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Music is a good way of reflecting or influncing your mood. When I hate the world i listen to Simple Plan/Green Day, when I wanna fell better about myself I listen to Kelly Clarkeson/Delta Goodrem. It helps let out all your emotions.. music is the best.
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This is essentially a question of definitions, i.e. how you define sound or noise. \n\nHere are the two basic answers. \n\nYes \n\nA noise is a sound and a sound is a set of vibrating molecules referred to as sound waves. If a tree falls in the forest and makes a sound, it makes molecular vibrations, or sound waves, whether any human ear drum is around to sense them or not. So yes, it makes a noise. A person hearing it is irrelevant to the being of the sound. A person hearing it is only relevant to human consciousness of the sound. \n\nAnother argument for this viewpoint is based on theology. God observes the entire universe. \n\nNo \n\nIf a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it, it does not make a noise by definition. What is noise? What is sound? One must make sure to look at this question not from such a skewed view point to realize that he or she is being misled. From an early stage in our lives, through modern science, it is FACT that sound waves are processed in our brains, thus if we are not near the sound it is just an assumption that it does make a noise. \n\nSound travels through our ears, into the canal, and into the brain to allow for it to be processed by the brain, allowing for us to differentiate due to experiences that yes, it is that particular noise. However, one would not know the sound to be that way if they cannot imagine the situation. Thus, a human being or another entity must be present to absorb the vibrations, waves, etc in order to process the information. \n\nSome take this further and claim that the whole universe does not really exist until it is observed.
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Actually, no it doesn't. The sound you hear is actually vibrations in your ear that your brain converts to noise. So if there are no living creatures with ears and brains around to 'hear' it, it does not make a noise...just some air vibrations going all over the place.
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Not on any realistic scale.  The particles in matter move according th the net of all the forces acting on them, including gravity.  Sound is a disturbance to the position of those particles, which propagates as a compression wavefront.  Gravity affects the steady-state behavior of each particle.  Sound just creates a short-term displacement.
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Well I imagine upbeat music with mid to high notes would release endorfines(spelling?) into your brain that make you happy.
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emotions come from chemicals in your brain, produced by different stimulants- chemical or environmental.  For example on a chemical stimulant, seratonin makes you feel good and chocolate stimulates seratonin.
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No. Sound is a waveform of energy that travels from particle to particle. When there's no particles the wave stops. Kind of like waves of the sea don't continue on land.\n\nBut - if you have a planet with atmosphere that's thick enough you'd get sound.
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It could be a form of synesthesia.  Synesthesia is basically when your brain gets a bit cross-wired.. for example, a visual stimulation triggers an auditory perception.   So perhaps, your visual stimulation is triggering some emotional perceptions.\n\nActually, now that I think about it, it seems more like empathy.\n\nSounds interesting, though!
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Whenever you listen to your favourite tunes or something which means a lot to you (someone praises you),feel-good hormones ( i think it is called seratonin) are released. They probably cause the associated chills and goosebumps.
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Good music can raise your vibration and uplift your soul.  Bad music can sound like hell to your ears and depress or frustrate you.  It doesn't matter the genre as much as the thoughts put into that music.  A responsible person will never need to be told what to listen to or not listen to because they will be wise enough to choose what's right and best.
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No. And here's why: \n\nThe falling rock will create the compressions and rarefactions of air that are the external stimulus for the auditory receptors. \n\nSound, however, is more than just those compressions and rarefactions; for there to be a perception of sound there must be an organism to hear it. \n\nThis organism, in order to be able to hear a sound, must have a functioning auditory system that receives the external stimulus capable of transducing the stimulus from physical into electrical energy and have the proper neurotransmitters that will turn that electrical energy into chemical energy able to stimulate neurons. It must have uninjured neurons in the proper places that will receive that chemical energy and transform it back into electrical energy and back to chemical energy using the proper neurotransmitters to stimulate the next neurons in the chain. The organism must have all these neurons going to the proper areas of the brain that will receive the energy and impute meaning onto it from prior experience. This prior experience is why we (as verbal humans) label as sound the sensations coming from the compressions and rarefactions that hit our ears and go up the chain. Other organisms will not label the sensation as sound, but will behave in other appropriate manners indicating that they heard the sound.\n\nSo without an organism, there can therefore be no sound.
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Great Question Coastal\nOur brain attempts to process every single sensory event in our lives on a continual 24 hour a day basis. \n\nWe tend to like music better than most regular sounds because regular sounds tend to be non patterned and hard to identify, catagorize and process. Music is usually rythmic and patterned, which is easier for our brains to identify and process.\nSome music is easier for your brain to process than others because the notes exist at a frequency that is easy for your brain to recognize and transfer through its "pipeline".\nMusic is a very personal experience because the atomic processing systems of each person is unique. \nCertain frequencies will affect each person differently.\n\nThere are many other factors involved in music being deemed enjoyable, such as associative relationships. (what was happening to you while the music played, what memories are evoked while the song is playing. etc..)\n\nScientifically speaking, our Physical sense of pleasure from music, without taking into account any other factors, will be the result of the compatibilty of our processing system with the frequency being processed.  (What frequencies of energy, or combination of frequencies of energy, are easiest, or most satisfying for our existing energy sensing system to process.) \n\nExample-1\nToo much heat energy through our touch sensory system in our fingers will cause the atoms in our fingers to absorb too much energy and swell, possibly to destructive levels. We perceive this as a burn. Some people however can handle much more heat energy than others before feeling pain.\n\nExample-2\nToo much audio energy at an uncumfortable level,(air horn siren), will do the same thing to the atoms that transfer the sound energy after it is converted to electrical signal. \nEvery person has an optimal range of audio energy processing that is different from everyone else. We tend to listen to the \ntype of energy that is the easiest for us to process.\n\nAnimals can probably appreciate the difference between soothing comforting energy levels and assaultive painful ones.\n\nA lot of info, but I hope this helps.\nKeep asking the good questions.
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According to the Masters, Yes.\n\nCurious as to why you would ask this question.\n\nA sound is also an energetic field.  All energy affects the whole of the human being.
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Never mind. No question is a stupid question as long as u learn from it. Here's my explanation. Where does sound come from? Sound is actually produced by vibration. As long as it has vibration, it produces sound, no matter how loud or how soft. Even molecules in a solid produces sound because it vibrates, but we can't hear the sound because it is out of our hearing range. Well, as you asked, when a tree falls, it actually vibrates, hence, sound is actuallly produced although we can't hear it. For your second question, IF, lets say you are in the woods and happen to see the tree fall, and you can hear the sound of the fall of the tree. Your question was, how on earth you heard that sound, right? Here's the explanation. When the tree falls, it vibrates. When it vibrates, energy is transfered to the air. The air molecule will then vibrate and the so-called sound wave will then be transmitted into your ears.
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everyone reacts to different kinds of stress. some are visual, some are auditory. and people can react differently depending on the sound. \n\nthe reaction isn't really conscious. just happens when you hear certain sounds. so it sounds like you're super-sensitive to bells.