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

[Norse]

I have had American Pie stuck on replay since yesterday. But thanks to Zen I now feel a bad case of Julie Andrews coming on.

[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

[GraysonKelly]

Heh.

Hallucinate this

LOL!!! This song goes through my head over and over more times than I can count! Happens all the time. "Do Re Mi" (the whole thing) is also a particular favorite of my warped brain.
Thanks!

Gray

[MomOnBike]

TsPoet sez: 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:

From personal experience, they are very different things.

The earworm is an annoying snatch of song (my most recent one was a snatch of a hymn I dislike) that just worms its way into my mental conversation with myself. I find myself humming it throughout the day and it drives me NUTS. The worst, of course, is that I never quite remember the whole thing, so I just have a sappy phrase to put up with.

The auditory hallucination is a whole different beast. I'm starting to occasionally "hear" someone say my name. No I'm quite alone. No, it's not frightening. It is a bit weird, but I don't mind a little bit of weirdness in my life. In fact, I prefer this to that %*##@^!! hymn. Considerably less annoying.

[alpinerabbit]

Title music from the super nerdy-cool british sitcom, the IT Crowd.

Brilliant.

[beccaB]

Heh.

Hallucinate this

Oh that's just great-I'm playing in the pit for a local high school that's doing that one in March! Right now I'm doing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor dream coat, and in May it will be Willy Wonka. Will it ever stop!!???

[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.

[Chile Pepper]

Tulip-I live in the country where women glow & men thunder...

Actually, the men plunder. Can you hear, can you hear the thunder?

[TsPoet]

My latest earworm is driving me nuts, not because of the tune but because it's wrong.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think? It's so ironic, I really do think.
It's like rain on your wedding day. (That's NOT ironic, that's a bummer)
It's a free ride, when you've already paid. (Again, not ironic, just unfortunate)
It's the good advice, you just didn't take. (not ironic, just stupid)
...
This is driving me nuts! Please somebody, tell me there is some example of ironic in that song somewhere before I go insane.

Maybe this
as the plane crashed down, he thought "well isn't this nice". - maybe that's ironic??

[DDH]

I kissed a girl and I liked it : by Kate Perry.

I have had that stuck in my head for 2 weeks. Problem is, that is the only part of the song that I know.
I heard it on a comercial for something one day and can't get it out of my head.

[OakLeaf]

...
This is driving me nuts! Please somebody, tell me there is some example of ironic in that song somewhere before I go insane.

Well I had to look up the lyrics, but I thought the first one was ironic, dying the day after he hit the lottery.

Now you've got that song stuck in my head. That's exactly why I was afraid to look at this thread. Is that ironic? (I guess not.)

[RoadRaven]

Ever been driven crazy by a song in yer head? Be bopped too much one day and memorized some lyrics? Headbanged too frequently?

I can't get "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse out of me head...

What about you?

Well, not til I read this post!! Thanks CC

(BTW... when I was a kid I thought Icehouse were telling me about a "great southern man" )