What A Weird Phenomenon - Or Maybe It's Just Me

It hit me yesterday, or maybe it was Friday, that I was back at school - grad school (I never studied during my Undergrad because I was too busy doing my extracurricular stuff. Undergrad was also pretty easy) - and had tonnes of readings and work to do. Yikes! I shouldn't have lazed around on Wednesday and Thursday. If I want to have a life, I better pull my act together (I've had a total of 2 days of class so far this term - this is insane), and start studying properly. I'm either going to get eaten alive (I'd rather not use the first *ahem* colloquial phrase that came to mind) by my 4 courses, thesis and work, or survive to tell the tale.

I hope it's the latter.

Anyway. Back to the original point of this post.

Weird phenomenon.

I've noticed this over the past few years, but it seems to have become much more of a minute issue than it has ever been. I know a couple of languages, because that's what I study - politics and languages (and religion - but from the lens of politics, so not really religion). Anyway. When I'm studying, I like listening to music. It calms my mind. I'm a nervous, anxious, freak type of a person - although I don't show it - especially when I'm studying and have to sit still. But I can't listen to music in the language I'm reading or writing in. If, for example, I'm reading an article on the Mughal State in English, I'll have to listen to music that isn't in English to be able to function. If, on the other hand, I'm reading Urdu poetry by Iqbal, I won't be able to listen to anything that's remotely close to Urdu: Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi etc. It'll drive me insane and all I'll do is listen to the music.

Is it just me? Does this prove that different languages are stored in different parts of your brain? OooOooOooHhhh