It's goin round & round in me head aka the song thread

[TsPoet]

Scientists think that a song stuck in your head is the most common hallucination. I do that all the time because I play an instrument in a lot of different groups. I must really be nuts.

I think an earworm and an auditory hallucination must be 2 different things. So, being a scientist I looked up your claim and found things like this abstract:

A case of idiopathic musical hallucination with increasing repertoire
M Satoh, M Kokubo, S Kuzuhara

"Musical hallucination is defined as a type of auditory hallucination characterised by the perception of music without an external source. Reports in the literature state that musical hallucinations are common in women, and are associated with ageing, deafness, brain diseases (epilepsy, tumour, stroke, meningitis and neurosyphilis), psychiatric diseases (schizophrenia and manic depression), toxic states (alcohol) and drugs (antidepressants, salicylate, quinine and aspirin). Some authors proposed that, when listening to music, the auditory input is processed by three stages, operating in a hierarchical fashion: perception of individual sounds, perception or imagery of pattern in segmented sound, and encoding or recognition of patterned segmented sound. It is supposed that musical hallucinations are caused by abnormal autonomous activity in the auditory brain systems responsible for normal musical imagery."


Still not convinced that it's the same thing, or is it

[beccaB]

I think an earworm and an auditory hallucination must be 2 different things. So, being a scientist I looked up your claim and found things like this abstract:

A case of idiopathic musical hallucination with increasing repertoire
M Satoh, M Kokubo, S Kuzuhara

"Musical hallucination is defined as a type of auditory hallucination characterised by the perception of music without an external source. Reports in the literature state that musical hallucinations are common in women, and are associated with ageing, deafness, brain diseases (epilepsy, tumour, stroke, meningitis and neurosyphilis), psychiatric diseases (schizophrenia and manic depression), toxic states (alcohol) and drugs (antidepressants, salicylate, quinine and aspirin). Some authors proposed that, when listening to music, the auditory input is processed by three stages, operating in a hierarchical fashion: perception of individual sounds, perception or imagery of pattern in segmented sound, and encoding or recognition of patterned segmented sound. It is supposed that musical hallucinations are caused by abnormal autonomous activity in the auditory brain systems responsible for normal musical imagery."


Still not convinced that it's the same thing, or is it

Oh- maybe I should be really worried, at least about the cause? I don't think I will let my husband read this-he may have me locked up!

[TsPoet]

Oh- maybe I should be really worried, at least about the cause? I don't think I will let my husband read this-he may have me locked up!

I agree with Momonbike - I think an ear worm is not an hallucination. When a song is stuck in my head it can be distracting or annoying, but I never think I really hear it. I think you have think something is real for it to be an hallucination, even if the thought it's real is transient.
I've had smells that I think were hallucinations, though.

[Aggie_Ama]

I have two dueling- "Start Wearing Purple" and "Strange OVertones". Both I know very little of so I jsut hear "Why don't you start wearing purple, wearing purple...." or the part of strange overtones where they talk about getting their mittens.