A Penny's Worth of Thoughts Vol. 6

Music.  One way or another, most of us can relate to a song or be inspired by an arrangement of instruments.  We use music to dance to, escape from reality for a little bit, or distract ourselves from what we are doing.  Like most other things, different aspects of it appeal to different people.

Me personally, I prefer the background music of games I play, not only because they are from some of my favorite games, but it never seems to surprise me when my mind thinks of a song to fit a situation I'm in, or which ones come to mind while I'm just sitting around.  Sometimes at work, after I've eaten my lunch and still have around fifteen minutes of break left, I find myself using one of the wooden tables outside to keep to the beat of a song I have playing in my head, most often seems to be one from Donkey Kong Country Returns.

The reason I bring this up in a Penny's Worth is because sometimes we tie thoughts or visualizations to songs as well, even without realizing it, and sometimes that can be influenced.  Here's how easy it is, using a song from OverClocked Remix: ChronoTrigger - Fight For Our Future.  On first listen, it's a battle song, you can see two enemies dueling it out throughout the song.  By the end, one of them has won.  And it's a remix of a battle song, so why not right?

Now listen to it again.  Do you hear the countdown timer to a long foot race at the start?  You can probably see two people ducking, jumping, and dodging around obstacles this time, am I right?  If I am, your mind was influenced by what I told you to listen for in the song.  If not, perhaps you were envisioning something else at the time.  Point is, sometimes a different perspective, even if it's just written words for a song, changes not only how you see things, but how you hear them.

Just a penny's worth of thoughts, for anyone who wants to read them.