Today's My Birthday!

[jack_ryder]

Both murasaki_1966 and my mother have just sung me "Happy Birthday".

Let me know the good stuff that's happened to you today (I think benpeek has created a good tradition.)

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Re: Happy belated birthday!

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

What's Karaoke Therapy? Is it a form of aural acupuncture? What happens if you choose the wrong tune? Do you have a relapse?

Karaoke Therapy

[iwoolf.livejournal.com]

As you know, my doctors have been useless in helping me since I accidentally ingested neurotoxins in December 2002. So I've had to do the Mad Scientist thing and experiment on myself, after reading up on neurology and immunology and toxicology.

One of the symptoms they couldn't help me with was Mild Aphasia, which included voice problems. I figured that if singing activated a different part of the brain for people who stutter and helps them speak clearly, it may also help with my voice changes.

So I downloaded EvilLyrics and winamp, and sing along at home. My memory is too bad to remember lyrics without the prompt. Mysteriously, my voice was remarkably richer the next day.

Thus Karaoke therapy was born. I suspect the fact that I'm trying to match the singer's timing and inflection are part of what makes a difference. Until I went to a High School where the only extracurricular activities were sport and violence, I used to be part of a school choir. I think singing with another voice gives feedback ques for self-correction.

If I miss it for too many days, then my voice reverts to poor.

Re: Karaoke Therapy

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you're forcing neural pathways to re-open that are otherwise used to being closed for the winter.

There appears to be a lot of breakthroughs in our understanding of neurology (like the experiment where people with injured limbs were taught to look at their uninjured limb as a method of pain adjustment) happenign at the moment.

I wonder if you've got a book there, about how you managed to self-diagnose and self-treat yourself. Though I can see it causing problems for people who don't have your scientific knowledge and research skills.