Is it normal to act out the lyrics to music when listening to it?

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For a lot of my life, mainly starting from when my Dad got me into a lot of music he likes (1960s-1990s music), when I'm in my room listening to my iPod I sometimes act out the song, especially if it's a song I really like. And no, it isn't just air guitar or air drums, it goes further than that.

It's wierd. Here's an example: the song Sugar-Coated Iceberg by the Lightning Seeds. It's like a form of dancing.

Its chorus goes "I'm sinking deep and going under a sugar-coated iceberg. Tastes so sweet until you tumble into sugar-coated lies" and while in my room I actually pretended to sink into imaginary water. Another line mentions a poison dart going through the heart, and I pretended to clutch my heart and faint in slow-motion.

Yeah.

Another example, one of my very favourite songs - Dance on a Volcano by Genesis, an absolutely epic song (best album opener ever) about an explorer climbing a volcano. Once or twice when listening to it I found myself acting some of it out, pretending to climb up a volcano and dodge falling rocks and the floods of molten lava.

I'm not sure, but it just seems a little strange that I love music so much that I'm actually becoming PART of the music, acting it out by myself as if I'm in some sort of pantomime. Is it normal?

By the way even if it isn't normal, I don't care, it's too much fun =D

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Perfectly normal! I do similar things, maybe not to such an extent, but I'd pretend I was singing it on stage, and like, walk around the room I'm in moving my arms about and stuff. But yes, it makes some music more exciting at times.

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    • Tris18
      11 years ago

      No it is completly normal I do it all the time. One time my husband cought me doing it. If other people see it. Then yes it is embarrasing but just be yourself.

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  • Faxing
    13 years ago

    I don't know about the rest of you, but I do exactly that. I don't think you can truly enjoy your favorite music unless you've acted it out a few times. I do it all the time! I like to do it with songs from musicals because they're made so people can act with them, but any and all good music I have, works. Totally Normal.

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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    I only do this when no one is watching.

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  • rockhead
    13 years ago

    sounds like a lot of fun!!!

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  • fracturedlight
    13 years ago

    I think that this is the very definition of "Interpretive Dance." And if it's fun and harmless, then why stop???

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    do you have an audience, i like it, sounds like a good workout too

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  • Uzzie101
    13 years ago

    You listen to your dad's music??

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