Is music addiction real and can it be as bad as porn addiction?

[mischizo]

Recently I started thinking about how much time I spend listening to music, which is almost always. I listen to it at work, commuting to/from work and when I'm home I put on my wireless headphones and listen to music the whole day. Only time I'm not listening to it, is when I go to bed, but even then I sometimes have to put on headphones because there is a nigger screaming outside at 4 am for the 5212121th time this week.
I never tried to stop before, so idk if I'd have a withdrawal.

So is there a thing like music addiction? When I google it, everyone says there isn't and that you're stupid for thinking there is one, but you also get the same results when you ask if porn addiction is real.

 

[baqqrih]

I believe that it can be an addiction, yes, just as anything pleasurable to any of our senses could be. I'm not sure how someone could deny this.

 

[Soyteen Liker]

Recently I started thinking about how much time I spend listening to music, which is almost always. I listen to it at work, commuting to/from work and when I'm home I put on my wireless headphones and listen to music the whole day. Only time I'm not listening to it, is when I go to bed, but even then I sometimes have to put on headphones because there is a nigger screaming outside at 4 am for the 5212121th time this week.
I never tried to stop before, so idk if I'd have a withdrawal.

So is there a thing like music addiction? When I google it, everyone says there isn't and that you're stupid for thinking there is one, but you also get the same results when you ask if porn addiction is real.

Well, I think the difference is that you can do other stuff while listening to music so it's not like porn where you abandon everything else to jerk off.

 

[terrycrews]

I believe that it can be an addiction, yes, just as anything pleasurable to any of our senses could be. I'm not sure how someone could deny this.

You can't be addicted to music dumbass

 

[mischizo]

I'm not sure how someone could deny this.

 

[Neutralplier]

i mean you cant really get addicted since theres nothing "addictive" about it, more like
you just have what everyone else has in the united states, you're too used to something and dont want to abandon it because its comforting or you feel like you're missing out if you dont listen to music

 

[terrycrews]

OK look an addiction needs to be harmful for it to be an addiction, so unless it's harming you it can't be addiction

 

[Ree Vannin]

Yes, almost same biological process, though porn causes more dopamine output.

 

[terrycrews]

Yes, almost same biological process, though porn causes more dopamine output.

You're a fucking retard

 

[Ree Vannin]

You're a fucking retard

 

[mischizo]

i mean you cant really get addicted since theres nothing "addictive" about it, more like
you just have what everyone else has in the united states, you're too used to something and dont want to abandon it because its comforting or you feel like you're missing out if you dont listen to music

I think I listen to music a lot because I don't like being alone with my thoughts, also I constantly look for new novel music when old songs and genres wear out. I think this applies to majority of people who spend most of their waking hours listeniong to music.

Those symptoms are exactly the same as porn addiction, triggers that make you goon is being bored an alone, and also with porn you are constantly on the hunt for novelty too.
So isn't music raping your dopamine receptors too?

 

[raepson industries .ltc]

NEVER LISTEN

 

[baqqrih]

You can't be addicted to music dumbass

Well, I think you can, and I must say, do watch your language. What I believe is that you can have an addiction to any form of media or anything that stimulates the senses. Your mind'll get attached to the pleasure you get from that activity, and then grow dependent on it for that happiness, so that when you're without it, you'll feel deprived and feel a desperation to seek it again. In growing this reliance, you'll then feel harmed without this source of joy, so it's inherently harmful to grow this dependency because you are putting yourself at a further risk of feeling this unhappiness, and you then grow a new responsibility to pursue it more often, thus depriving you of time. So, I'd say a music addiction would be a less harmful addiction than others, but it is still giving you that adverse effect through depriving you of willpower and personal autonomy in being without it.

 

[mischizo]

btw does anyone have that copypasta from that ancient /mtv/ thread with cob picture that went like: listening to music is SAD and PATHETIC

nvm, found it:

Spoiler: gembo

 

[Ree Vannin]

So isn't music raping your dopamine receptors too?

Yes. Which is why, by the way, adding phonk to nazi webms is the same as adding naked anime women.

 

[Neutralplier]

I think I listen to music a lot because I don't like being alone with my thoughts, also I constantly look for new novel music when old songs and genres wear out. I think this applies to majority of people who spend most of their waking hours listeniong to music.

Those symptoms are exactly the same as porn addiction, triggers that make you goon is being bored an alone, and also with porn you are constantly on the hunt for novelty too.
So isn't music raping your dopamine receptors too?

everything can rape your dopamine receptors as long as its pleasurable and repeatable
its in the same field as gooning but gooning is more recepetive to dopamine production and more "addictive" but you're just abusing your dopamine at the end of the day

so yeah you can get your dopamine receptors "raped" by listening to music but its not as severe as gooning is, so theres not really as much harm in it
more like a habit to listen to music if you ask me in this context

 

[raepson industries .ltc]

you can get addicted to almost everything but that doesnt mean itll be bad for you

 

[istanbul]

I think I listen to music a lot because I don't like being alone with my thoughts, also I constantly look for new novel music when old songs and genres wear out. I think this applies to majority of people who spend most of their waking hours listeniong to music.

Those symptoms are exactly the same as porn addiction, triggers that make you goon is being bored an alone, and also with porn you are constantly on the hunt for novelty too.
So isn't music raping your dopamine receptors too?

WWWWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????
YOU DOWNRIGHT INSANE LOCO!
you should only be listening to top 40 songs!!

 

[mischizo]

Alright another question, would starving myself of all (consumer) dopamine sources make me a more productive person? Since the only thing that would give me dopamine would be getting work done.

 

[encrusting_acro]

Unlike porn, music doesn't inherently trigger an oxytocin/dopamine response in your brain, so no, you can't really develop a chemical dependency to music like you would pornography.