mri flowerock Magnetic resonance imaging sounds like someone's first attempt at making electronic music played through half assed old broken speakers with a faulty wire. lazy, tired, dark, heavy, desperate, experimental, ambient. I was super comfy aside from the pain in my neck from staying still in one position for 24 minutes. I could feel the difference in tone and rhythm in there. I felt it bouncing off of my bones. my body tensed and relaxed to some of the different sounds. I wondered if the left over glitter on my face was metallic or plastic. 140620 ... epitome of incomprehensibility That's what I thought when I did an MRI a few years ago, that it sounded like music! And I hummed along. They said not to move, but they never said not to hum. Humming makes the brain prettier. When I was ten I also got tested for hearing loss, since I have tinnitus ("ringing" in my ears, actually a soft whine like the hum of a fridge, that I can only hear if I cover my ears or if it's very quiet). I was in a soundproof room hearing notes played on a sort of keyboard on the other side. The pitch differences were to test whether there was hearing loss in a particular range - older people tend to lose high frequencies first, for instance - but I felt like calling out, "Perfect fifth!" or whatever instead of nodding to show I heard the sound. Or tapping my finger, or whatever it was I had to do. I'm lucky, though. My ears hear what they should, and even though my brain worries and makes me bad at finishing things on time, it works fine for most things. Like ear training. For some reason I got ridiculously high marks in my ear training class and music wasn't even my major. Previous experience (piano lessons) a factor, I guess; also telling minor sixths apart from major sixths and such has very little practical application. 140620 ... flowerock I have that ringing in my ears too... it is so loud sometimes, it can be a little scary sometimes how loud it gets, drowns out everything else. The MRI seemes to cause it to be espeially intense last night when I was trying to sleep. I worry sometimes, a little irrational fear, that it will drive me to insanity or deafness. I also liked ear training. music_theory made music less fun though, so I stopped after a year. 140620 what's it to you? who go blather from