Music is just layered simple patterns and our brains LOVE IT.
Sound is pressure waves, musical notes are a specific pattern of pressure waves. Melodies are repeated musical notes. Songs are repeated melodies following standard structure.
Our brains love trying to decode and parse all these overlapping patterns.
Maybe not really a shower thought and more wild speculation.
Plenty of music isn’t. But maybe the joy there is that it’s not as formulaic?
A joke is just lighting up an unexpected or long unused connection in the brain. 🤷♂️
This seems reasonable to me, a very unqualified source in neurology.
We are doing great work together pushing the bounda of scientific knowledge! 😂
Note: I have no idea how brains work.
Even when it doesn’t repeat itself, after repeated listens I find satisfaction just in knowing the weird places that the music goes. A lot of my favorite songs took a few listens to “click”.