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Do you listen while you read???

Can't listen to music & read; however can have tv on & read....as long as it's not a show I want to watch.....
 
Kell said:
Can't listen to music & read; however can have tv on & read....as long as it's not a show I want to watch.....
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T.V. Must die. It distracts me so horribly I think I've died and gone off to some state of mind where I'm doped on pills that make me think left is right and south is green. Go figure.

~Josh
 
I can listen to ambient stuff but when a beat comes into the music I have to turn it off as my brain tunes to the rhythm of the tune rather than the beat of the page.
 
Stewart said:
I can listen to ambient stuff but when a beat comes into the music I have to turn it off as my brain tunes to the rhythm of the tune rather than the beat of the page.
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LoL! Same here that's why music and I don't get along. Drum beats = evillll

~Josh
 
i concentrate better when i listen to music while i read. it's a lot easier to drown out that one sound rather than a lot of little ones.
 
Occasionally I listen and read when I'm stressed out. I'll usually have something more stimulating than relaxing on in the background.
 
I don't know if I've posted in here yet, but I've been able to read a comic strip book while listening to music. Acutally, 10 years ago, I was so bored that I decided to read Calvin And Hobbes books and listen to a combination of Bad Company and THE BAND. it was around the first time I also heard the album Music From Big Pink by THE BAND. I was immediately hooked onto that album. So I always go back to the good times when I didn't have any responsibilities.

THE BAND - Music From Big Pink
http://www.napster.com/player/album/10516631
 
I can only listen to classical music while reading. Anything else just distracts me too much.
 
Lots of people can't concentrate with music while they read, apparently, and I'm no exception. The only noise I can handle while reading is background noise..with no patterns I can identify. I made the mistake of noticing that my fan causes a funny (yet mysterious) tapping noise of irregular frequency, and even that distracts me. It is the same for falling asleep..and doing most homework. I even recall trying to get through reading Plato's The Republic, where the only place I could find no disruption was to hide in a closet under the stairs in my parents house my first year of college. There is only one type of work I can do with music on..and that's math homework (excluding hamiltonian mechanics). I must process numbers in a remote part of my brain or something.
 
I can do it, but I generally don't. If someone has music on that I'm not interested in, I can easily read and concentrate on that. But as far as music I like goes, I want to give it my full attention and not do other things while listening to it. I'm not a big fan of music as something that's constantly running in the background. Unfortunately these days it's hard to go out the door without constantly being bombarded with music from all sides.

If I try to read while hearing music that interests me, my concentration starts wavering between the two, and my experience of each is lessened.
 
I prefer to have silence while I read. Music is too distracting and television irritates the life out of me.
 
I was listening to music and reading yesterday. it took me too much time to continue reading on the same pace.
so listening to music isn't something I'd like to do when reading..

silence is the best =)
 
I'm one of those people that just can't have words if I want to remember what I'm reading/writing. Usually I put on some instrumentals for background noise. I can't stand it when the house is too quiet.
 
i sometimes have to put plugs in my ears to filter out the noise in my home (with four small children and a dog it gets to be a problem sometimes) so i can concentrate.
 
tundra said:
Lots of people can't concentrate with music while they read, apparently, and I'm no exception. The only noise I can handle while reading is background noise..with no patterns I can identify. I made the mistake of noticing that my fan causes a funny (yet mysterious) tapping noise of irregular frequency, and even that distracts me. It is the same for falling asleep..and doing most homework. I even recall trying to get through reading Plato's The Republic, where the only place I could find no disruption was to hide in a closet under the stairs in my parents house my first year of college. There is only one type of work I can do with music on..and that's math homework (excluding hamiltonian mechanics). I must process numbers in a remote part of my brain or something.
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i relate completely. even little fan noises bother me. read my other post where i said i have to put plugs in my ears sometimes! unless, like you said, it is an undefinable pattern, i have to block it out.

about the music and math, though, that is totally understandable. you have to be a mathematical genius to be able to compose really terrific music. math and music are completely related. did you know that Pathagorus not only is the "father" of math, but revolutionized how we read, write, and interpret music. he even discovered the octave range and chords among many other musical theory properties.
 
I'm probably going against the consensus but I always listen to music while I'm reading - I don't take much of it in though and often the CD finishes without me realising.

TV on the other hand I can't be in the same room as.
 
No vocal music while reading! I cannot be implored by Elvis, while simultaneously "listening" to the words of Flaubert. I end up just *viewing* the words. This used to happen constantly while I tried to read at lunch at work. Bleah.

My quality of life at work recently took a nosedive when a speaker was installed into our little workshop area. Now the "music" that had previously been the scourge only of customers and cashiers is now mine as well...:( And I use the sad face instead of the mad one because this is a point that can't be argued - only whined about. Zounds, mad face it is!:mad:
 
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