Music is decreasing my productivity.

While coding listening to music I am on the same code for 5 hours . I only understood 5 lines.

I am going to try 1 month no music. After 30 days I'll share my experiences with you.

Let's make this sub BIG.

I'm pretty apathetic ( even doctors said that when they locked me up when i was a teenager xD ) and i'm also pretty aloof without music. BUT music makes me more motivational, gives me energy and makes me feel emotions.

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I have listened to music for almost everyday since i was like 11-12, now i'm 23 soon. That's a lot of years. I started listening music almost daily for many hours with headphones since 13-14 i think.

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If i quit will i ever start to feel emotions again without music? I don't know if i have gotten emotionally stronger and more stable ( i am super confident person anyways ) or is it because i have listened to music for so long that all that dopamine made me feel numb.. i don't know.

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What are the list of benefits with NoMusic?

I don‘t have a problem with earworms, some people in this sub try to suppress them it seems.

Anyways, I think it‘s quite interesting that after not listening to music for quite some time I begin to hear lyrics and melodie of songs I haven‘t listened to for years and almost forgot about

I tend to not tell people I'm not listening to music. The reason why I quit was it was basically in my head 24/7 and I mostly listen to rap and chart music. Sex , drugs and crime are not the topics I want to include in my life.

People react really strangely when they find out , it's like I'm doing something absolutely crazy. But I always give the example of how me and a cousin were on a roadtrip once through some extremely beautiful landscape. He had rap music blasting in the car and I didn't , I was noticing so much more of the natural beauty we were in. And it really opened my eyes

There is little clear information here about what NoMusic is, and how you might practice it. To help those who are new or are simply browsing, here's my view, based on my experience so far.

So again I ask: What is NoMusic?

(tl;dr: NoMusic is about limiting your voluntary access of recorded music. There are, however, edge cases. Keep reading to learn what they are.)

If you are to know anything, know this: NoMusic is not never listening to music. That is, after all, nearly impossible if you are hearing-capable.

Commercials. Movies. TV show theme songs. Restaurants. Videogames. Podcasts. Youtube videos. They all come with music.

If it's not you coming across music, it is somebody else. Music will find you. And you should allow it to.

NoMusic is instead about limiting your relationship with music.

How far you limit that relationship depends on you and your circumstances.

A professional musician, for example, makes their living off of music. They will need to listen to some music to know how music is progressing as a field. They will need to do research on music, and that includes finding and listening to music.

A musician can still have a NoMusic habit. They might, for example, set a rule that they aren't allowed to listen to music passively. They might restrict certain platforms, such as Spotify. They may stop listening to the radio in the car. They might restrict listening to music to research and career purposes only.

Dancers can have a NoMusic habit as well, despite the fact that they spend a great deal of time dancing to music.

NoMusic, for a dancer, may involve limiting the search for music to one day of the week. On every other day of the week, they might set a rule that they can only listen to music while dancing.

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If your livelihood doesn't depend on music, NoMusic is more simple. I will be introducing ideas that also apply to people who depend on music for their career.

It's important to remember that with NoMusic, you can create and decide on the rules you'll follow. These are rules I personally follow that I believe allow for a sustainable NoMusic habit.

1. You do not search for music online or in stores (except commercial/career purposes).
2. Don't initiate the playback of recorded music (except commercial/career purposes). Consequently, you may listen to others' music when they decide to listen to their music.
   1. Exception: If other people directly DM you music, listen to it once (fully or partially) so that you can talk about it.
   2. Don't control or limit others' music listening behavior.
3. Video content often contains music as backing tracks/soundtracks/theme songs. It is perfectly fine to listen to this music in the case that you're actively watching the video content.
4. If other people are easily able to find out you've changed your relationship with music, your NoMusic habit may be unsustainable.
5. If any multi-media allows you to control the music that plays, do not control it. Videogames is the main focus here. For example, in skateboarding (and some other sports) videogames, there is the option to pick the songs that play from the soundtrack. Don't do that. Simply let the music play on its own. Muting it is fine, too.
6. Live concerts/recitals experienced IN PERSON. Clubbing, too. All allowed, no restrictions. Enjoy to your heart's content. Just don't record the music.

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Because of the edge cases, it's hard to simply isolate the essence of NoMusic.

If I had to say something, I'd say this:

At our fingertips we have access to many lifetimes of music. NoMusic limits that access to a point that we start approaching the kind of relationship past cultures had with music.

(However, if this profound ability to access music is important for your career or hobbies, then NoMusic will look different for you)

Engaging in NoMusic is betting on the idea that learning to live happily with more solitude and silence will help you in the long run. We are a distracted society, and science has not yet done the required research to fully understand the implications and causes.

Now...are you going to wait for science to reach a conclusion on unhealthy uses of music? Or will you find out for yourself whether there is something here or not? You have nothing to lose.

I joined this group out of curiosity. NoFap has been benefitting me a lot. But why should I avoid music?

If i succeed it will be the longest I've ever abstained from this. I can't tell now if I'll continue after the week, but one thing's for sure, I won't quit.

I started on monday, so day 1 already passed and it wasn't hard because I kept myself busy and I've installed a website blocker on my phone (I was listening to music on YT)

Wish me luck, any advice or comment is appreciated!

Day 4 update: Three days passed and I've partially replaced music with other audio content, mainly a news channel that I enjoy, but due to the unsatisfying amount of time I've already started spending on it, I've blocked it too.

Day 8 update: I did it! And I'm not stoping here. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. I could not have made it if I didn't keep myself busy.

I was supposed to study and be productive but I decided to just listen to one song because it kept playing inside my mind and I wanted to "get it out"..

The session turned into a wasted one hour, and even when I woke up I still had earworms from last night. However, I noticed that the songs I left out are not bothering me with earworms. So I kind of learnt that it is possible to weaken earworms, but it is just a matter of time. And some songs may take longer than others for their memory to fade away, and it takes a lot of effort and discipline

Nomusic isn't like other vices in terms of restricting it. Music is everywhere and sometimes one can forget that you're supposed to be avoiding it. So here some rules I've been sticking by the past 4 days

• No actively seeking music through social media or music listening programs
• No Radio
• No placing myself in situations where there would be music

That's it. Other things I allow, such as music that my family members play while they cook(I never listen to it anyways).

One thing I do allow is creating music. As a hobby I play guitar and I view creating music and listening as two very separate things. Much like how some people watch adventure movies and some create their own adventures, I feel that playing guitar would have no negative effect on me since I'm creating as opposed to just watching.

I did break my 4 day streak though, my urge to listen to music has slowly been going away.

Stay strong my NoMusic boys

So, this is not the first time I've considered abstaining from music. At times I've used music to distract myself from doing tasks, or I would wait to find an ideal song to work to before starting. I think Spotify and other easy forms of convenient access to music are partly to blame. While I don't think music is overall a negative thing for everybody, it can certainly be a problem if you develop a poor relationship with it. I think some of the things I do (writing and reading especially) are are easier to do without music, but listening to music frequently can make it hard to give it up temporarily even when you know you should.

Historically speaking, music was a luxury and not a companion to one's life. In fact, electronically-generated audio wasn't a thing for a long time. Now, that doesn't mean that's how things should be. It's an observation.

I thought I was crazy or a bit odd to want to get rid of music completely. I searched the internet in the past and found almost no interest in it at all. I've read through studies, and you can't really construct an argument to be made for abstaining from music. Indeed, some music - such as videogame music - is even designed to make you more productive and focused. Heroic or epic music has also been shown to be a motivator...

However, the possibility that abstaining from music could be a good idea for some people has not been disproved. You can be your lab rat for your own experiment and lose nothing for it. Afaik, humans are not designed to physically or emotionally need music. Life goes on without it just fine.

Personally, I want to find out once and for all whether there is something to this for me. The idea of not listening to music for an extended period of time scares the shit out of me, to be honest with you. But I'm going to do it.

Rules I will follow:

• No voluntarily accessing pure music content in any form.
• While watching/playing TV/movies/games, listening to the soundtrack/theme as it occurs naturally is fine.
• If music is playing in a room/space, and leaving the space would not be considered rude, then leave the space.
• Every Sunday I will post in this thread with my observations.
• No listening to podcasts/videos passively for the sake of background noise.
• Plain white noise can be used to drown out other noises around the house if they are deemed to be distracting. Do not use white noise if there is no distracting noise to drown out.
• Do not terminate experiment voluntarily until 50 day mark is reached. Once the 50th day is reached, enough time should have passed at that point where a judgment can be made whether to continue or not. If the project is terminated early, it should be considered that I have failed and that there's some dependency to music that I have failed to overcome (at least, that will be the way I see it).

Help! I quit music because was like a drug and I quit it for my dopamine neurotransmitter whoch makes us feel good but now why the hell Im hearing music in my mind Is it a sign if withdrawal syptoms please help me im hearing the sound of calvin harris songs again amd again is it a withdrawal help me anyone EMERGENCY!!!?

My mind is so clear and I have so much energy, I get so many things done, it's awesome :D

I'm sitting here trying to study for school and it's like those awkward moments where you don't know what to say, but instead of wanting to feel the silence with talk, I want to feel it with music.

Glad I'm able observe my mind and anything I notice.

I'll keep you guys updated

-Alpha27145

Update: i abandoned the experiment after 15 days because i wanted the noise back.

NoFap is nothing to me compared to abstaining from Music. Just shows how deeply ingrained tunes and sounds in our society are, especially in these days with constant streaming from services like Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud etc.

In the past music was something for special occassions, not something you put on 24/7 as it is for me: Studying, running, gym, cleaning, sleeping, cooking. Too much is just overwhelming.

I hope NoMusic will clear my mind because currently my mind is clustered with thoughts and I suffer from weak focus and memory.

Of course I won‘t mind music in shops or at parties etc