I personally love ambient music to death- as a person with synesthesia it makes a profound emotional and visual journey for me every time I hear it.

My personal favourite by far is Aphex's Selected Ambient Works Volume 2- everything has such intensely deep and warm emotions evoked from the songs.

What about you? Share your experiences with ambient music, and please post your favourites or at least tell who some of your favourite ambient musicians are.

Also, I have a question for people that can easily distinguish different moods and settings of ambient music-- anybody know where I could find songs pertaining to vastness or large abandoned areas that are significantly beautiful? May be quite the task, but just putting that out there 8)