Has a work of art (movie, song, painting, etc) ever unlocked some confusion in you to the point that

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you felt healed or released in some way?

For whatever odd reason, it simply triggered some realization, or sense of enlightenment or self-foregiveness, or some other strong emotion in you?

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For clarification, the other night someone explained to me the meaning of a song that had haunted me for years, and I had simply missed the entire meaning, but it applied to me exactly, and when I understood this, it was as if it unlocked a storeroom of suppressed feelings.

In my case it just happened to be a song by Kate Bush (don't laugh, but I don't blame you if you do). Somebody here simply unlocked this song for me, and it had haunted me for more than ten years, and it spoke to me, having been unlocked.

I'm just curious if anyone else here has had that kind of experience as it relates to a work of art of any kind.

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1. Mahler's Symphony No. 1 worked that way for me

I was in high school, and our orchestra had taken a trip to the University of Chicago (I think that's what it is), and as part of our day we got to listen to their orchestra rehearse - they were rehearsing Mahler's No. 1. I was transfixed, and I remember thinking, "Cool - so all those idiotic 'rules' about music are just bullshit? Good."

It was very much an opening for me.

Zappa also did that for me, because in Junior High I had dreams of being a musician of the sort that mixed the screaming guitar that I loved so much with the orchestral, classical style of music that I also loved so much. I had hopes and dreams at that point of being the first one to do it (oh, well...), and when I found Zappa I found great satisfaction in the rightness of my aesthetic aspirations and tastes.

Until each of these, I had thought that every type of art - and, therefore, every type of living - *HAD* to be somehow "orthodox" and that there could never, ever be any overlap.

And then of course I continued on musically into Glass, Laurie Anderson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Steve Reich, Robert Wilson, Terry Riley, Cage, Hovhannes, Schoenberg...

and also the physicist/poets: Schroedinger, Planck, Heisenberg, Sagan, Fermi, Einstein, and so on.