[wiretwister]

Do you have a go to song that unwinds , or settles you at bedtime or during those times when your either sad or just can't seem to turn the old brain off ....

of course for me it's Soon-Kyu (suprised you right .... the one below usually works) after about ten times ...

[cashart10]

Almost every night I go to sleep to Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits.

[Keegan2015]

I don't really listen to music as I fall asleep (I listen to podcasts actually hahaha) but when I'm stressing out and need to wind down I'll listen to Wakin on a Pretty Day by Kurt Vile (

) or something by Earth like Engine of Ruin (

)

I've been listening to "Outside" by Staind before bed the last few days. It makes me feel better to see that whole huge crowd of people grooving to the song. I know i'm not the only one that feels this way. Another member likes this song too and has lyrics from it in her sig. Is it Gina_Re?

[Icare dixit]

Beethoven's 9th symphony, 3rd movement.

4th movement when wishing to get tired or more stable, reset my mind, but not yet trying to sleep. The complexity is really breaking down expectations and a roller coaster more spectacular and varied than a mixed episode.

In general, also other, classical music. Beethoven (suspected BP, but based on the music alone clearly representing great emotional turmoil, with great differences between soft/smooth and erratic/manic/complex) primarily. No focus, manic flight of tones.

Edit:
Best music ever written (as "proof", just interesting: the original capacity of the CD is 74 minutes, exactly enough to fit the entire 9th symphony on one CD).

3rd movement really works as an anxiolytic if you just go with it. Taking in all long, smooth notes/harmony.

Another edit:
Oh, and if you are still wondering why it is really meant to represent mania, the choir:

"Joy! Beautiful godly sparks!", "All men will become brothers, where your wing touches" (text by Schiller). Romanticism being the way (manic-)depressives flourished.

But then now we know of course it is a disease and requires you to reach absolute compliance to all authority were you ever to manage. Never romanticise, never imagine.

History has depressive episodes as well. We're living one right now.

[scatterbrained04]

Front Porch Swing Afternoon by Jamey Johnson....give it a listen

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[Icare dixit]

Also, Beethoven's Für Elise and Mondschein (Moonlight sonata).

[wiretwister]

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

Beethoven's 9th symphony, 3rd movement.

4th movement when wishing to get tired or more stable, reset my mind, but not yet trying to sleep. The complexity is really breaking down expectations and a roller coaster more spectacular and varied than a mixed episode.

In general, also other, classical music. Beethoven (suspected BP, but based on the music alone clearly representing great emotional turmoil, with great differences between soft/smooth and erratic/manic/complex) primarily. No focus, manic flight of tones.

Edit:
Best music ever written (as "proof", just interesting: the original capacity of the CD is 74 minutes, exactly enough to fit the entire 9th symphony on one CD).

3rd movement really works as an anxiolytic if you just go with it. Taking in all long, smooth notes/harmony.

Another edit:
Oh, and if you are still wondering why it is really meant to represent mania, the choir:

"Joy! Beautiful godly sparks!", "All men will become brothers, where your wing touches" (text by Schiller). Romanticism being the way (manic-)depressives flourished.

But then now we know of course it is a disease and requires you to reach absolute compliance to all authority were you ever to manage. Never romanticise, never imagine.

History has depressive episodes as well. We're living one right now.

You write with such knowledge and passion you blow this old country (public educated) boy away ... if you ever just want to kick back and slow down a little drop me a line ... I enjoy reading your posts but most of them go way over my head ...

Tigger ...

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by wiretwister

You write with such knowledge and passion you blow this old country (public educated) boy away ... if you ever just want to kick back and slow down a little drop me a line ... I enjoy reading your posts but most of them go way over my head ...

Tigger ...

If only more new country boys were as old country self-deprecating as you, the world would be a better place.

But I hope you enjoy the music from zi jerman boy. Music knows no social strata. Beethoven wasn't the von (akin to Sir) Beethoven he made others believe he was.

It's just fancy words I guess. Just borrowed. Science is littered with it. I may have been infected. My crime is that I may not be able to write it so that anyone can readily understand. In my opinion that is what it is all about. One language should easily be able to bridge all divides.

It's also just me: I may sometimes talk SZ-like rubbish. Just how my brain works. Don't confuse that with anything other than being unable to communicate properly. In science it just doesn't matter because if no-one understands, you must be right. Lots of pride.

Some take the next step and only use mathematical formulae where words would do perfectly fine, just to be more right still: anything math-like must certainly be valid. Being a linguist, it's like a personal affront.

But it's also just assumptions. Especially in Britain. People assume I must be well-off. At university, when manic and mixed, they assumed I didn't do what I was supposed to because I could afford it.

I speak to homeless people who assume the same. Many are probably a lot less crazy than I am. I miss chances and spend all my money continuously.

Same with spoken language. I speak the Queen's English, pretty much: really posh. I am not gonna change that because it matters not.

People assume too much: I listen to Lennon and Dylan and despise authority and elitism. Hell, I don't believe in their reality, let alone their values.

In another thread I talked about Steve Jobs. Multibillionaire wearing trainers and jeans. I just am the opposite: don't own much more than a guitar, piano, sofa, table, laptop and six pair of exactly the same shoes I recently bought (ok, maybe some mild manic behaviour ).

So, no assumptions. Self-deprecation is a virtue. Formal (as in form; cf. functional/essential; class) assumptions are definitely not. Though also rather jolly good fun.

I also just think (and talk) too much. Like there are two of me: one manic and not wanting to shut up, tiring me. Maybe you were semi-right.

Edit:
Wow, look at all that text! /: Sorry, Tigger.

Basically, just: book, cover. Me idiot.

[wiretwister]

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

I also just think (and talk) too much. Like there are two of me: one manic and not wanting to shut up, tiring me. Maybe you were semi-right.

Edit:
Wow, look at all that text! /: Sorry, Tigger.

Basically, just: book, cover. Me idiot.

as the young folks say ... it's all good ...

[Icare dixit]

I really need some time off from this forum. Yankee itch. All my fault: generalising.

Thanks, Tigger.