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I’d crumble to dust from sad.

It'd be a really shitty existence....

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It would be pretty devastating, but I'd at least have my memories of music and the ability to feel vibrations. I think I could still get some enjoyment out of playing drums. But it would definitely suck.

I'd be sad but I'd probably still go on. I could still feel it, I could even kinda hear it, too, through my imagination and reading the sheet music.

If I was ever blinded and couldn't see, though? I would end my life pretty quickly.

id probably fall into a deep depression. I love music so much

I love music and almost every time something is playing on my headphones.
If I would go deaf, then songs would continue playing in my head. And then start to decay until only broken fragments loop through my head forever and drive me insane.

Still, I would rather loose my hearing then my eyesight. But lets hope nobody here looses any of it.

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Well sir, I have to say I do not like that prospect one bit.

I would honestly kms. I'd rather be blind... big props to people who have experienced that and still exist.

I don't know if I could live honestly. Too quiet. I listen to music from 10am to bedtime (if i'm home and not otherwise occupied) then play music in my sleep. Sometimes I watch music videos instead of tv

I look for new music to add to my collection every year and make a playlist for every year. I started purchasing and "purchasing" music again this year and saving it all to a drive.

I love all kinds of music and love to sing. That would be such a sad life

I will grieve for a bit, and I will adapt. Humans can get used to anything.

Would put me in a deep deep depression. Just shoot me and get it over with

Going deaf would be terrible, but at least I'd have the music inside me I've heard before.

Not even being able to hear music in my own head would be... I'm sure I could find a way to live with it, but I'd miss it every day.

I wouldn't function.

I genuinely don't know how I would live without listening to music, it's my escape from reality. So to answer you question, it would break me

i listen to music constantly. it is my passion hobby, my favorite form of art, my special interest. there are over 4600 artists in my library and i’m always visiting new and old sounds. i love music.

i would be devastated. i don’t know. i’m not sure if i could find living bearable.

Music keeps me going through life, whether it be listening on mobile, on vinyl at home, live at gigs/raves/concerts

I wouldn't survive

Go bloody mad/sad. The dissatisfaction that comes from losing something you always could do and probably took for granted would be immense. And music doesn't just impact songs.. it would make shows and movies and video games suck too, since they rely so heavily on music to texture scenes and create mood.

What's the point of even living like that?

Am I allowed to learn to play an instrument myself? That's what I'd do

I would be devestated! Music is one of the things that make me feel grounded and without it, my life would absolutely be less normal.

Serious genuine trouble, the dopamine I get from new music keeps everyone around me alive.

I'd be heartbroken, in a way. I like poetry and am sure I could lean harder into that to get a similar kick, but that can only get so far. Feeling the bass on songs would probably also be a nice compromise, I imagine.

I don't think that could work. There is always a song or a beat playing in my head 24/7. Sometimes something I just heard, sometimes something from years ago, and sometimes its some nonsense I just came up with.

Even if I went deaf, the beat would continue. But I'd be bummed I couldn't listen to new stuff.

I would be very sad but at least now have heard so much I think it would stick with me, and already get auditory hallucination sometimes, so might be able to imagine it. If you mean deafness.

If you mean some sort of music blindness, like it's only music I can't hear, it never sounds like music and I can't remember any of it? That seems inhuman, and I am not sure at all whether I would miss it, maybe not - the only analogue I have is sex drive, I run hot most of my life, sex is something I enjoy so much and value that ability to enjoy it but when I was nursing kids, it was gone, entirely gone, I had less than no sex drive and while it caused problems in my relationship, I can't say I missed it exactly? I didn't care that I didn't care about sex and couldn't feel it. So if I became amusical in that way, maybe I would not care. It's just hard to imagine, just like right now it's hard to believe I didn't care about missing out on the sexual pleasure.

I can't live without it. I would be very lazy and unproductive

I'd be alright, I can hear it in my mind the same

It'd be a big loss but it wouldn't be catastrophic. Beethoven went deaf and that didn't stop him.

I could focus in on the pure music inside my head that isn't degraded by the normal music transmission channels.

I've read enough written music to be able to hear it in my mind's ear when I read it, so learning new stuff would still be possible.

I would miss being able to crank Summer of 69 up to 11 though.

I am a lighting designer for concerts so right off the bat my career would be over. Outside of work I listen to music a lot to help motivate me to do things so it would be much harder for me to accomplish anything.

I'm pretty sure that good music helped me greatly through my rather questionable youth and made me an okay adult. It was pretty much a godsend, and without it, my life would already be quite shit. Likewise, since it's a big part of my life now, taking it away would make the rest suck a lot.

I sometimes contemplate if i rather lose an ear or an eye.

On the surface an eye seems so much more important but vision with one eye is still mostly the same vision with one corner cut out where hearing from one ear is instantly very disorienting.

Also i believe different notes hit my brain differently depending on the ear, hence why stereo is the norm.

Theoretically that would just mean going deaf right? If so I could still feel vibrations and so on. So I guess it suck immensely but I wouldn't lose the ability to partake in rhythms and may be able to enjoy bass.

Extremely sad. I do often wonder what the last song I will ever listen to will be, and along with that if the song I am listening to right now will be the last time I ever hear it.

Is it just music? If yes would that mean that I can't hear myself or my friends when we sing together while we do other/boring stuff? I would be more sad about that part actually.

The perk would be to not hear annoying songs on repeat at stores around holiday or being able to actually talk at bars. But otherwise extremely sad.

I literally couldn't focus. I need it drown out everything else.

I would be beyond heartbroken and go mad

Annoyed more so than sad. For the most part, I listen to instrumental songs to block out the ads and music while shopping. Otherwise, I don't play music.

I do have several nature recordings of thunder storms, crashing waves, etc that could fill in if music was gone from the world.

The upside for me would be no more music in tv shows and movies. Sometimes, its too loud to clearly hear the dialogue.

Depression basically already did this to me. Something that used to make me feel a lot of things is now a chore that I usually don't get around to

What a loss! 😔 Music is such a huge spice of life. But things could be worse bc at least I’m not deaf

I'll say, as someone who loves listening to chill music, but has had a few events leave them with pretty bad tinnitus, it sucks to be even partially on the way to there.

I'd live, but it'd suck even more.