What Do You Think?

In a brief passing conversation last week, someone raised an interesting question.

When you listen to music - what goes through your mind? What do you see? Do you see yourself playing the music? Do you see yourself dancing to the music? See others playing? Other dancing? Initially, I had no idea what my answer was.

As, I was listening to music today, here's what I discovered. For the most part, music reminds me of things. Some songs make me think of certain people and some songs make me think of certain events. Example - Pomp and Circumstance makes probably everyone think of graduation. It makes me think of playing at graduations in high school and the torn and tattered music we used to play the song every year.

It would be interesting to have some scientific study done (if it already hasn't been done) that analyzes what happens when we hear music. What's the brain reaction to certain music? An image? A memory? A person?