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This one has always gotten me ever since I was little. I have the Rosemary Clooney version downloaded, but I can't even listen to it, because it makes me cry so much to hear.
I cried through the whole first half of Hotel New Hampshire, because the bear died. I don't know what that triggered, I've never owned a bear or had a pet shot...
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was crazy for a second. Typically when this happens, I may mope around for a few days but by the next week, I'm okay. For me, my mind replays it over and over until it no longer has an effect. I can't go around crying in front of people all day lol. Unfortunately, I saw a movie the other day and I keep thinking about a specific scene I saw between the two main actors. Gets to me every time. I wish I could spot these triggers before they happen.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was crazy for a second. Typically when this happens, I may mope around for a few days but by the next week, I'm okay. For me, my mind replays it over and over until it no longer has an effect. I can't go around crying in front of people all day lol. Unfortunately, I saw a movie the other day and I keep thinking about a specific scene I saw between the two main actors. Gets to me every time. I wish I could spot these triggers before they happen.
*sigh*
It's okay to to feel overwhelmed by an artistic experience...what could we do without art?
I feel it all the time...the ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was kinda epic. The frozen image of them facing their certain death, and you can only hear the Bolivian army shooting...goosebumps.
No I can't relate. Fantasy is fantasy happy or sad. A song is just a song. I live in a bottom line world and only harsh reality can make me cry. Sometimes not even then.
That hit you SO hard out of nowhere that you couldn't stop thinking about it or every time you thought about it, you teared up/cried?
Just curious because this has happened a few times in my life. It's not a consistent thing, it happens once in a blue moon. I can count on one hand how many times this happened. Like for example: When I was 14, I played a video game with a very sad ending and I literally cried for like 2 weeks afterwards every time I thought about it. Looking back, I can laugh lol. But that's just one of the few times it happened. I usually get desensitized to it after being exposed to it for a while.
Has this happened to any of you?
One time, I was driving home from work, and a song by an artist I don't even care that much about, came on the radio. It's an excessively sentimental song, and it reminded me of my dad, who died several years ago.
I started crying. On the way home, I stopped at the grocery store, and the ONE item I was in there for was out. And so I cried some more, right there in the grocery store aisle.
Turns out, I was hormonal. But at the time, I was rather shocked that a purposely sentimental song (which usually I kind of hate) was effecting me that way.
For me one song that triggers tears every single time is the 1980s song "The Living Years" by Mike & the Mechanics ... it's just pop music so it annoys me to no end that it has such a huge impact on me, but it does. These days it makes me think of my mom, who will be 84 this Sunday. She's in decent health ... but she's 84.
Yes, there are certainly a few songs, movies, and episodes of shows that trigger deep sadness or a tearful emotional response for me. But I don't dwell on them, and I don't even deliberately watch/listen to them often. I have far more happiness-inducing or uplifting choices of music or film, and I indulge in those (especially music) deliberately and often. But that has been, for me, part of purposeful management, because I have in the past had serious depressive episodes, so I do things to keep my mind in the place I want it to be.
I've had inexplicably emotional reactions to several movies I've seen. Two that immediately spring to mind are Out of Africa and Cinema Paradiso. Neither mirrored my personal experiences, yet I was unusually emotional about them. I get that way about other movies, but in those cases it's self-explanatory. For instance, Schindler's List. I was haunted by that for weeks, but it's understandable. I'm also especially responsive to music. I often cry at live performances and have certain songs that stop me in my tracks if I even hear a snippet of them. I can even get pretty obsessed with paintings. Just the way my brain works, I guess. INFP and very right-brained.
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