Okay, so this is weird.

I seriously don’t do loud environments. My speech discrimination goes to shit with a bunch of background noise, and if I get into overly-spiky crowd noise (eg. loud bars / parties, with everyone yelling over each other and echoing off the walls), I rapidly overload and need to GTFO before I break down.

So why in the purple fuck is frantic glitchy breakcore the most soothing thing in the universe?

I’ve been listening to stuff like femtanyl recently, and the more IYTGKIUFUYGLICGXJYUGJTYUFLIHFUYGKJKHJGHYTFTJGHFDYGFDJHCHTRF it gets, the more it feels like my brain is sinking into a warm bath. It’s like brown noise, but moreso.

Tha heck is going on?

Anyone relate?

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How fascinating! I’ve never come across the coffitivity thing before - I surprisingly don’t hate it, though it does slow my reading speed down a fair bit. I honestly don’t know yet if I like it or not. It probably wouldn’t help my speech discrimination any, but it doesn’t seem to overload me.

    Brown noise is incredibly soothing (even moreso if you throw in some rain sound on top…) - white and pink are a lot harsher, but not stressful per se.

    Prisencolinensinainciusol doesn’t bother me any.

    I mainly get triggered by the henhouse noises of parties and the like - people scream-laughing out of nowhere, and waves of noise building up and crashing as people successively talk over each other until they can’t any more, then reset. Not just chaos, but stabby chaos.

    I guess having an undercurrent of structure under the chaotic music (and not having the dynamics of someone sharpening a knife on a broken plate) helps, though I’m not sure that’s a sufficient explanation.

    I suspect also that the problem tends to lie in too many pieces you can put together, making it too hard to tune out, and so ending up with too many balls to juggle at once.

    Hmm.