thread in which the Mentally Normal sustain a stream of fascinating chat

[Mitchy1nge]

and die of being cold

Any other Mentally Normal peeps have trouble with CONSTANT FUCKING MUSIC in their heads? It Never. Bloody. Stops. All. Fucking. Day. It's double fucking speed Que Sera Sera at the moment, the same two lines, round and round and round and round and round and it's like being in a Hitchcockian depiction of SLOW DESCENT INTO SODDING MADNESS. If I'm lucky I get two tunes at the same time or two that rotate from one to the other and back again in a constant thirty second loop. Sometimes I can stop it with actual music but if I'm unlucky my brain finds one of my mental musical obsessions to sing along in harmony/cacophony with it. It goes round and round and round and round and round. I was singing "I'm walking on sunshine, whoa oh, I'm walking on sunshine, whoa oh a, I'm walking on sunshine, whoahohohaa, and don't it feel GOOD - do... Do doodle oodle Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh ooh dum dum doo, do doodle oodle ooh oh OOOH", and repeat x1000, for so bloody long earlier, and actually most of this week, and it just wouldn't exorcise itself. Stupid sodding brain. I think I might be damaging my ears listening to music loud enough to distract myself

I once several years ago developed such a pachelbel's canon mental habit I started literally hearing it, like it was playing quietly in another room. Ye. Fucking. Gods. I used to like that tune once upon a time, but months of having it in your head on constant fucking repeat really plays out a piece.

(The reason it's double speed Que Sera Sera AND normal speed Walking on Sunshine is that they mesh really well when mentally played at the same time, with a bit of jiggery-pokery on the timing that my brain thinks I won't notice it doing, the crafty little bastard)

I've read about musical hallucinations and apparently they are completely unrelated to mental illness.

Also supposedly they're rare (if you believe Wikipedia) but I've experienced so many things that are supposedly rare, as a one-off, usually, that I bet they're actually really common and it's just that most people never happen to mention the experience to a doctor - I certainly never have.

Really? I suppose supernaturally-gifted composers, who hear symphonies in their head & then just have to write it down aren't barmy. Or they're barmy and gifted. I hallucinate music sometimes, usually a few bars of choral or violins on repeat. I eventually worked out it's my brain trying to make sense of various background sounds + my tinnitus. Would be great if [a] it blocked out the tinnitus, and [b] the music was interesting. Sadly, no.

things that are supposedly rare ... I bet they're actually really common and it's just that most people never happen to mention the experience to a doctor

Yes! I'm sure you're right!

Yes, never interesting bloody music!

It's one reason I hate ticking clocks because while I do have periods of my life when my brain is slightly quieter, for want of a better word, the presence of any rhythmic or continuous sound forces my mind to construct music around it, usually the shortest possible snatch of the most banal possible tune it can think of.

I just did a search and it looks like actual hearing of music that isn't there is more common in some mental illnesses than in the general population (OCD especially) so I should've done a search before saying that

I wish I heard brand new symphonies in my head rather than Greatest Shits Of The Eighties

Though I can't write symphonic scores so my symphonies would be forever doomed to have an audience of only one

I'm pretty sure it's not worth learning how to write down my mental mini-dirges ...

166g of protein today.

Impressive.

that is impressive, imagine the lovely muscles it will build

am trying to establish habit of Sunday morning Long Run so have been up since 5 sipping water and Thinking About It, sunrise is not for ages but who will be on the road at this hour to run me over?

Getting nice and light now.

Enpo, is music hallucinations the same as having an earworm? I think I do get that...and the way the brain takes 2 songs I don't like much and weaves them together. Pachabel's cannon is a frequent one. I don't get woken in the night by the noise.

I worked with an elderly lady, years ago, who would get it. She would say her radio was on and what songs (uaually hymns) were playing and she'd conduct and sway and sing along. She was completely deaf.

No earworms are what I get pretty much all the time, musical hallucinations is actually hearing the music (has only happened to me once).

I think deaf people get it, and people with tinnitus seem to as well.

I just got reminded of the hallucinations thing while talking about my ohrwurm problem

Conducting hymns sounds rather fun tho!

I quite often hear music as part of hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations - not a mental disorder either as far as I'm aware?

is usually v scary though, am envious of people for whom it is a pleasant experience

had an amazingly refreshing sleep under all my cats and the spaniel, almost certainly feel better than if I'd gone out for my run - I HAVE had a long run this week (anything over 10 is long under the terms of The Long Run (Arbitrary Requirements) Order 2013 a little known statutory instrument)

am ordering some flashing lights to wear, my biggest fear in life is not Being Fat but getting run over

I hear murmured conversations and people saying my name when I'm tired/falling asleep but no other hypnagogic/hypnopompic stuff.

I will try the volume knob technique, thanks Chapuys.

It's interesting if earworms are linked with OCD as I have a couple of family members with that diagnosis.

Since I woke up at 7am it's been a shorter fragment of "I'm Walking on Sunshine" - about a 6 second loop. Can't concentrate on anything. Argh argh argh argh argh.

god you love that song

it makes me think of my husband I would hate to have that stuck in my head

try this, is one I often have on repeat but at least it has lyrical merit

Flashing lights are great - I have some that DP bought me and emotionally blackmails me into wearing when it's dark, and a local woman has one on her dog

If I ever meet anyone responsible for Walking on Sunshine I will do terrible, terrible things.

I've never come across the music you linked - is it recent?