Ambience

[Mellish]

For every season of the year, I associate each one with a significant ambience or "feeling". I don't know what it is or how to describe but when I think of certain parts of a certain year it gets associated with a particular ambience, words can't really describe it, it's like a sixth sense. Due to this reason, Christmas has always been my favorite part of the year as it evokes the most of this ambience or mood. There's always a base for the ambience which depends on which part of the year it is or the general atmosphere. Songs I was listening to at the time usually help me remember the particular ambience or mood . The ones that really bring it on to me the most would be really slow and ambient pieces like Rhubarb or Blue Calx by Aphex Twin. I just love it so much and I'm interested if anyone knows what I'm getting at, it's just words can't describe the feelings and moods I get from it.

 

[Ravioli]

hahaha i actually read about this recently, its tied in with some pshycological disorder/disease whatever. Cant remember what it was. It was one of those long scientific words.

Ahhhh so annoying i cant remember it.

 

[Darkside55]

words can't describe the feelings and moods

Go ahead and try.

 

[Mellish]

The best way to describe it would be converting senses into a feeling/emotion, ie. imagine bright light as an actual feeling that overwhelms the body

 

[Rizzo]

If I aim a lamp at my face I feel warm. Do you feel warm?

 

[MJ12]

For every season of the year, I associate each one with a significant ambience or "feeling". I don't know what it is or how to describe but when I think of certain parts of a certain year it gets associated with a particular ambience, words can't really describe it, it's like a sixth sense. Due to this reason, Christmas has always been my favorite part of the year as it evokes the most of this ambience or mood. There's always a base for the ambience which depends on which part of the year it is or the general atmosphere. Songs I was listening to at the time usually help me remember the particular ambience or mood . The ones that really bring it on to me the most would be really slow and ambient pieces like Rhubarb or Blue Calx by Aphex Twin. I just love it so much and I'm interested if anyone knows what I'm getting at, it's just words can't describe the feelings and moods I get from it.

I completely agree, seasons do have their own ambiance, and I am very perceptive to them in my own way.
Winter in particular is very blurry for me. My vision and awareness literally drops. I can associate this to natural things like the weather becoming colder, and the fact that everything around me in the visible world becomes varying shades of grey (Think Fallout 3)
I also think it's a natural instinct to feel more depressed and tired during winter months because of the lack of sun, and the fact that our bodies want us to hibernate. My memory from winter months is always vague and fragmented.
The transition from Summer to Fall weather is always a distinct and strange feeling.

A lot of this has to do with smell in my opinion as well, and I've even gotten to the point that specific years of my life have distinct smells.

I notice I listen to certain songs/bands more during certain seasons of course.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

happy and somehow at the same time depressed during winter but very nostalgic when the snow is lit pink at night.

 

[Sheepo]

Um yeah, I'm pretty sure I have exactly what you're talking about. I have a certain feeling for every time of the year, especially if that time happens to be reminiscent of another time that's already passed. I can also remember large chunks of my life because they are defined by this 'ambience'. Kinda like nostalgia.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Pink snow is the only thing that makes me want to do poetry. Also reminds me of watching Inuyasha years ago on my late CRT, good times.

 

[MJ12]

Where do you live that has pink snow Deathmaster? Gayland?

 

[Mellish]

Um yeah, I'm pretty sure I have exactly what you're talking about. I have a certain feeling for every time of the year, especially if that time happens to be reminiscent of another time that's already passed. I can also remember large chunks of my life because they are defined by this 'ambience'. Kinda like nostalgia.

That's basically exactly it.

 

[Sheepo]

Where do you live that has pink snow Deathmaster? Gayland?

ZING!

Late spring and early summer have the strongest feeling for me. Especially at night.

 

[MJ12]

Summer/Spring Nights are the shit.

People think I am crazy when it's 1 am and I am like "Nice time for a walk"

 

[Sheepo]

Oh god, I love taking walks at night.

 

[kineaesth]

Most of my life is high-passed white noise.


It's not the best.

 

[MJ12]

People think I am crazy when it's 1 am and I am like "Nice time for a walk"

Oh god, I love taking walks at night.

 

[Mellish]

Nights are most ambient for me at Winter, in fact I'm feeling it right now.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Where do you live that has pink snow Deathmaster? Gayland?

Turns out pink snow is caused by an algae called chlamydomonas nivalis, which sounds like something you might have treated at the local public health clinic after a weekend of partying. There are actually more than 350 kinds of algae that survive in very cold temperatures. These algae can turn the snow black, brown or yellow (disregarding for the moment the obvious cause of yellow snow), too. Chlamydomonas nivalis tends to flourish when the weather warms up a little after the darkest, coldest part of winter. It starts out green, then turns pink or reddish as the weather brightens. The cells have a gelatinous sheath that protect them from the strong ultraviolet radiation at high altitudes, and this sheath is what produces the pink color.

I think its mostly reflected from the sky, where the real cold temps are, see it on campus all the time even when its not snowing ("Hilltop circle" is the street name here)

 

[Eejit]

our bodies want us to hibernate.

No they don't, you're just lazy.

 

[Rizzo]

I kinda feel like my senses are sharpend in the winter. In summer it's all, hot and shit. And I don't really want to do anything. Winter and fall has always been my favorit time of year.

 

[dfc05]

A lot of this has to do with smell in my opinion as well, and I've even gotten to the point that specific years of my life have distinct smells.

I notice I listen to certain songs/bands more during certain seasons of course.

I kinda have a thing with connecting smells with events. Sometimes I'd be walking around school and it would smell like the first day of school. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it happens.

Fall used to be my favorite season but I lived in Texas so fall wasn't cold, just really nice weather. I just moved up north and it's getting cold now, which feels weird, like time just sped up really fast.

My favorite time of year was always from Thanksgiving up to about Christmas. I have strangely fond memories of getting up early for Thanksgiving to watch the parade on tv (and It's a Wonderful Life) and doing homework because my teachers sucked and always assigned projects over the break. And after Thanksgiving, I actually like Christmas shopping TV commercials a lot even though they're just ads.

 

[KiplingsCat]

I kinda have a thing with connecting smells with events. Sometimes I'd be walking around school and it would smell like the first day of school. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it happens.

I know what that's like. I have smells to associate with everything: birthday smell, christmas smell, back to school smell, october bank holiday smell, spring smell, science building smell, boy smell, girl smell, exam smell, beach smell, morning smell....

I think I'm a dog.

 

[Dog--]

No I am.

 

[Remus]

I know what that's like. I have smells to associate with everything: birthday smell, christmas smell, back to school smell, october bank holiday smell, spring smell, science building smell, boy smell, girl smell, exam smell, beach smell, morning smell....

Yeah, I think asociating smelld with certain things is relatively common.

For example I have smells asociated with stuff: summer smell, winter smell, after rain smell, back to school smell etc.

 

[AKIRA]

I also experience this, but it sort of sucks when you've had a really happy memory at a certain time last year or years before only to find when that season comes around everything is different and not the same as before...you get sort of a sad feeling.

I am going to soon experience this and i'm going to try really hard not to let it effect me too much.

 

[Rizzo]

Im not even sure what Ambience means.

 

[Raziaar]

I doubt this is what you're talking about... but I used to have these incredibly fond memories of winters past. When I remember them, all I can really remember about them that left such a great feeling was a sense of tightness all around, the air being cold, and lots of excitement just bundled up inside. When I look back on it, my memories of how it felt were always a "magical" sort of feel.

Of course, I never experience that anymore, and I don't know if it's all in my head or not.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

People think I am crazy when it's 1 am and I am like "Nice time for a walk"

Oh god, I love taking walks at night.

Same.

I think winter has the best ambience. It's probably got something to do with snow and presents more than ambience but I am sure there's some in there somewhere.