The Resonance in Reverberations.

In every sound, there is hidden music. I have always loved the blissful sounds of nature, those that goes deep into the heart and soul; giving an eternal joy washing away all the anxiety into nothing.  There is music in nature, in every sound you hear, it is the distinction of sounds that makes it a lovely melody and harmony; all this depends on how you want to take it. All my life I have been a lover of sounds, be it those heard from nature or the ones from a machine. 

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging", is a medical imaging used in radiology to investigate the anatomy and the functioning of the body in both health and disease. It was the second time I was going under this scanner. Every time I underwent a scan, I found new experiences in it.  It was like going into a sophisticated cave, listening to a lot of sounds and echoes; then emerging out into the open with your ear still buzzing with sounds. I was wishing that they allow an ear plug with music in it. As that could not be done, was lying down and trying to find the musical notes in those sounds.

 As the scanning process started, I could hear clicking, hammering, single sounds, which picked momentum and turned into louder continuous clicking, hammering, scraping type of sounds, in which I was trying to find some kind of melody. The most important thing during the whole process was that I lie down in the same position without any movements, hands up, surrendering to the machines sounds.  The hand up position was  to inject the contrast dye into the IV Line, fixed prior to the scan.

While the MRI procedure itself caused no pain, having to lie still for the length of the procedure caused some discomfort or pain. As the scan progressed, the sounds too become louder, making me wonder about the types of sounds I was able to hear. Though there was a certain rhythm in it, I was trying to listen to it as it were the best musical sounds I had heard. At a point of time I felt, my heart beat was a better sound to listen, but then I tried to synchronize it to the sounds around me.

I was trying to feel the resonance of the sounds reverberating around me, inside the sophisticated little cave I was reeled into, to find out if the creeping crab had reinstated its attack into my tissues again. Instead of the sounds of music, I was trying to find music in the sounds produced inside the machine.  It was beside the point, if the creeping crab had returned to attack or not, whatever may be the outcome, I am ready to give it a tough time by fighting it out of my system yet again.

Music has amazing powers on the mind and body. Socrates once said, "when the soul hears music, it drops its' best guard." That, for me, was really one of the highest description of the power that music had. I tried to find that music in the sounds I heard.