To ask if anyone else constantly has music running in their head?

[Mypremiumwhat]

I have music running constantly in my head all the time for as long as I can remember. It's normally there in the background like a low barely noticeable hum, but sometimes it becomes louder and more fucking annoying apparent. It's there regardless of what I'm doing, whether I'm watching tv, having a conversation, working, and the only time I can't (mentally) hear it is when I'm meditating or actually listening to music in real life.

Song changes are triggered by things I see, or words/phrases that I read or hear, and the music can be anything from songs I love, to songs I hate, to annoying jingles, to random instrumental music. One particular tune that gets stuck in my head regularly is the song that a toy telephone belonging to a girl I babysat 20 years ago used to play

I don't suffer from anxiety or any other mental health condition, and have no history of adhd or anything like that. But still the music persists. It doesn't bother me too much on a day-to-day basis but sometimes the songs turn into earworms and become infuriating. I never really paid much attention to it before, but read someone asking a similar question on another forum a while back and realised that it actually doesn't happen to everyone, and I've been very conscious of it since.

Is there any way of stopping it??

[IntermittentParps]

Not all the time, but I do get frequent and sometimes long-running earworms. Mine are sometimes suggested by phrases that remind me of the song/things people say etc too.

[mogtheexcellent]

@Bearnecessity

Lucky you. I've got the bass and only the bass from The Fugitive theme. I havent seen the film for years and it took me days to work out what it was.

Still better than Renee and Renato from last week (thanks to James Dreyfuss on Twitter).

[Bearnecessity]

@mogtheexcellent...don't think I know that....

I usually have a rich and varied selection.....dredged up johnny come home from the Fine Young Cannibals the other day.....

[35andThriving]

My nan has this.

I have this too but not to the same degree. It isn't constant for me.

[romany4]

I always have this.
It's always songs I love though thankfully

[MissPeregrine]

I know this thread is from May but I was searching this up today as my current ear worms are driving me demented and I had fleeting thoughts of ‘could there be something wrong with me’ - so a comfort to know there are so many of you with a constant internal jukebox playing!

Mine has ramped up recently and I have a suspicion it’s to do with me being stressed about something DS is going through, so might explain.

I’ve recently kicked a Radiohead song out to be replaced by a song by The Pixies, which in itself isn’t bad but it’s not the whole song that plays, rather a loop of it! I feel I need to listen to the whole track again just to satisfy myself!

These recent worms have been playing for weeks now!

Anyone who posted earlier in May, have your earworms still bothersome?

[Tunnocksmallow]

I know it’s a zombie thread!!

Ah yes the old internal jukebox is on overtime right now.
Bloody Olly Murs has been pleading with me to Dance with him Tonight for bloody days and I cannot take much more.

[FieryFairy76]

I also have a jukebox in my head. As soon as I am not auditorily occupied, I hum then there's a song. Sometimes the most random songs sound so clearly in my head, that I can sing along with songs I don't know the words to from artists I've never paid attention to. Different decades and genres. Sometimes I associate the song with a passed relative and in that moment, I feel like they are with me. Other times though, I know it might sound freaky but with no auditory influences a song will come in to my head so clearly, it feels like an energy of some kind wants me to hear it. I have no idea the reason or for what purpose but that's how it feels. Can anyone relate or know why? I don't hate it because I love my brain. I am always entertained, never bored. I would really appreciate any feedback or advice.

[laclochette]

I'm the same, always have been. Right now it's a theme from the Nutcracker. Often promoted by tangentially overheard words or phrases or things I glimpse, eg this time I think it's because I just walked past a big bowl of nuts on the coffee table! I remember getting told off for humming in Reception class, so it goes back that far at least. I've got better at keeping it in now, but it's always there.