I'm glad to hear the feeling doesn't fade. Still, the wonderment that it's there at all may. I suppose people can expect it to happen and try to make it so. Maybe it's easy enought to figure out what you have to do, or maybe trying to hard makes it difficult.

Kat, I like thinking about circles spreading outward, as if the singer is a pebble dropped in a pond, and the people around him catch the music and emotion, and the ripples spread.

Matt, I don't know that what you said just isn't a different interpretation or expression of the same energy. I can't tell because you said so little. It sounds all metaphysical, but what it really comes down to is grabbing someone's attention, and having them understand and feel whatever you feel when you sing. Singing in front of a group intensifies it, but you can get the same thing singing to just one person, I think. The first time we feel it may be when we start singing a song our family or friends know, and they all notice, and really start to listen or sing along.

John P, we had a thread about the feeling of floating when the playing was really good. Maybe I can find it in a bit, or maybe someone has a link.