That Urge to Tap the Rhythm

[Mowgli]

All day, when not too much is preoccupying my attention I just have to tap my thighs or the desk or do something rhythmic to keep the beat. It kind of helps me to think and focus on what I´m doing. Sometimes I feel people look at me weird because I´m tapping a rhythm but do not appear to be listening to any music or anything. But I do it anyways cause I just have to tap that rhythm.

Sometimes its a song. Sometimes it is just some repetitive set of beats running through my head.

Is anyone else like this? I just have to know.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

All the time, since middle school, I think.

Increased when I purchased some excellent headphones. Love those things.

This might be interesting:
http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index....tyles(wiki)#Dialectical-Algorithmic_Cognition

Dialectical-Algorithmic Cognition

Its advantages are obvious: it is the most subtle and flexible style. It can easily switch to an opposite direction, and possesses predictive ability, accompanied by an effective type of associative memory. Algorithmic thinking is also good at solving problems of classification, given their gift for recognizing complex patterns. Beyond the circumstantial conditions of a problem, it perceives a fundamental algorithm for its solution.

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The other version is slow suggestion, primarily based on entrainment through rhythmic vocalization and/or sound, multiple repetitions of the same phrase with variation. Variations in this case are particularly significant, working akin to the chorus in a song. Gradually a trance state is reached—external relaxation with internal concentration. The greater the monotony, the sooner a deep trance is reached. Hence why some people rapidly settle down and fall asleep under a monotone 'bubnezh' TV.

The information is Socionics related, but not Socionics dependent.

 

[GottabeKB]

I am exactly like this. I cannot stop the flow of music within my head. In fact its extremely hard for me not to think something. The flow of thought comes along with the flow of music. Many times when I'm thinking especially hard I tap on things more furiously, though I am relatively unaware of it. As I was thinking right there what to say next I just tapped on my laptop! Sometimes I wish I could stop it but it never really goes away.

 

[crippli]

I'm the opposite, very animated. Almost like a living corpse. I enjoy seeing people tapping the beat, or singing out loud unaware on the favorite part on the melody if headphones on. I find it attractive, like - to +.

 

[GottabeKB]

I'm the opposite, very animated. Almost like a living corpse. I enjoy seeing people tapping the beat, or singing out loud unaware on the favorite part on the melody if headphones on. I find it attractive, like - to +.

How is it that the opposite of tapping is animation? I don't really understand what you are getting at here. You enjoy seeing other people tapping and being 'in tune' with their inner rhythm and/or song, but you are instead animated? Je ne me comprend pas. Habla Ingles por favor

 

[crippli]

How is it that the opposite of tapping is animation? I don't really understand what you are getting at here. You enjoy seeing other people tapping and being 'in tune' with their inner rhythm and/or song, but you are instead animated? Je ne me comprend pas. Habla Ingles por favor

It could be me, sometimes it doesn't turn out just how I want it.

I don't understand music all that well, so that probably impairs my ability to tune in and get a hold on the beat.

I presume INTPs tap the beat as a part of the analytical process to easier easier figure out the composition?

Or is it like those I observe, who are more one with the tune?

 

[Mowgli]

Sometimes i just bounce my leg up and down. I think that i do that for the same reason that i tap. I think it just has something to do with the need to be doing something with some part of my body that involves motion while thinking or listening, kind of in the same direction crippli said: to keep a steady rhythm to focus on.

 

[pjoa09]

All the time, since middle school, I think.

Increased when I purchased some excellent headphones. Love those things.

This might be interesting:
http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index....tyles(wiki)#Dialectical-Algorithmic_Cognition

Dialectical-Algorithmic Cognition


The information is Socionics related, but not Socionics dependent.

Socionics has baffled me for at least one year, often it is too specific and leaves out half of MBTI INTPs but for me it's as if it's describing me like a pokemon. ( I am not bothering with the accent, please)

But yeah that was very relieving, I think I might be able to make it for a few more months just knowing that all of this is normal. I became detached from my physical awareness and wondered if I didn't need the physical side which was scary.

How odd, I tap viciously, often I just come up with new beats.

And that whole coma bit. Sometimes I just haze so bad and I have difficulty waking up from this haze. It's this long stare or something that could go on if my eyes didn't burn from drying up.

 

[MissQuote]

I'm not really like this I think. In fact, I've noticed I can become practically catatonic, at times, when lost in thought, sometimes music intensifys this, and there will be this surreal flow the music creates through my mind and body.

Other times however, music is what gets me actually moving.

I did notice myself shaking my foot just now inbetween sentences. So maybe it is just something I haven't noticed doing ever before.

 

[DirtyBit]

I often tap out a beat. I think it might just be out of boredom, and I am pretty sure I have ADHD so that might have something to do with it. I also have a pretty musical background, which might in some way be responsible for this habit.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I'm not really like this I think. In fact, I've noticed I can become practically catatonic, at times, when lost in thought, sometimes music intensifys this, and there will be this surreal flow the music creates through my mind and body.

Other times however, music is what gets me actually moving.

I did notice myself shaking my foot just now inbetween sentences. So maybe it is just something I haven't noticed doing ever before.

I often tap out a beat. I think it might just be out of boredom, and I am pretty sure I have ADHD so that might have something to do with it. I also have a pretty musical background, which might in some way be responsible for this habit.

Why don't you two have a look at the article? You might find it applies to you.

 

[MissQuote]

*searches for the article*

 

[Nocturne]

Hehe, me too!!! Everybody gets overly annoyed though. :3

 

[EyeSeeCold]

*searches for the article*

Don't look too hard.

http://intpforum.com/showpost.php?p=232428&postcount=2

 

[MissQuote]

It looks interesting. I bookmarked it to go back to later since it is so long. Thanks.

 

[crippli]

Why don't you two have a look at the article? You might find it applies to you.

Slow suggestion works for me. I use it when I sleep in a tent, or the car, as I do now and then in the summer. Airplanes, trains if bored. Monotone music. It's rare I get past the first few songs before I'm gone.

I don't even need monotone music, car sounds may do the same, people talking. When I was a kid I usually always fell asleep while driving, even shorter trips. Even now, when I drive myself I have this problem, and wrecked one car due to taking a nap. So I stop if the signs are coming on.

Will read the rest of the article. But that at least applies.

 

[Darby]

I keep songs playing in my head, at most i hum it, but usually I will just mouth the words, I'm sure I've wierded out plenty of people by doing this since no sound comes out. As for hand gestures, I used to fold origami, now I twiddle a pencil, chew my nails, twiddle my fingers, etc. For a year I would tap out a rhythm but I felt awkward and went back to twiddling, and I get in trouble at work for appearing to dance, but it is really more like dodging people twistily (I work in a grocery store).

 

[Mello]

Fidgeting helps you lose weight.

 

[lagduck]

In school I used to do a lot of "pencil drumming"; I tapped everything in my reach with my fingertips, nails, knuckles, pencils and everything I had, and constructed rhytms of these sounds. Now I sometimes tap simple rhythms with my feet or fingertips (or hum it), or rhythmically twiddle something small (e.g. lighter), it helps me to concentrate, makes my thoughts flow rhytmical, structured. When I walk I play songs in my head to the rhythm of footsteps, usually it's some familiar metal song or improvisation, very entertaining. Also when I'm sitting at hall or another silent place and hear some rhythmic footsteps I cannot resist the urge to repeat it by tapping my feet (sometimes even virtually, inside my head).

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I tap rythms all the time.

Ever since I've gotten good headphones I've been softly singing lyrics as well, I'm kind of ashamed of it. It's like half-melodic mumbling. I'm afraid people will think I'm crazy sometimes, while I'm just mumbling a song/melody haha.