What is music? A unified theory of music and dreaming
From <a href="https://whatismusic.info/blog/HypothesisMusicLetsUsPracticeHavingStrongEmotions.html" rel="nofollow">https://whatismusic.info/blog/HypothesisMusicLetsUsPracticeH...</a>:<p><pre><code>  > Now let us suppose that the person enjoys listening to music.
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  > Music enables the person to feel very strong emotions that lie outside the range of their normal everyday emotions.
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  > Music lets a person feel these emotions, almost, but not quite, as if those emotions were real.
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I’m quite puzzled by these statements. I enjoy listening to some genres of music. But I don’t see at all how music is connected to experiencing emotions. Isn’t music enjoyable because of completely different reasons? They are hard to describe, but I don’t think they’re “emotions”, are they?