Hearing music that isnt there

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wow really i have done this to when i did have a job working in the stock room behind the soda racks i thought i heard a choir music sorry if i spelt that wrong i have been up at my friends house for about two weeks and we have drank nothing but root bear so i am kinda off to night.

usually though mine is just music that stays in my head from earlier to but i hear it outside my head if that is what you mean

Sometimes after I play a song on my computer through my headphones I hear a high pitched noise.

yea i did

I am often still up at two or three o'clock in the morning. At that time, when everything else is very quiet, I hear classical music & have never been able to work out where it comes from. I have thought it must come from someone else in the neighbourhood but if I walk outside to investigate that doesn't seem to be the case. At times I feel as though I'm losing my mind.

Thank you everyone for your honesty and helping me see I'm not alone. I'm glad I found this site, everyone is so helpful. I'm just glad I'm not losing my mind and w lot of the things I do I'm not the only one.

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I have experienced this in the shower. It is very pleasant.

Keeps me going back. I am a clean person.

I often get music lodged in my head, or if I have been around a certain person a lot I get their voice lodged in my head too. If I have done a lot of a certain activity which produces a specific sound then that will get stuck in my head too.

This morning I got the Doo Ron Ron song in my head. I have no idea when I heard this last

I wanted to ask if anyone else gets this: if I lay in bed before going to sleep, and if I am relaxed and there are no other stimuli, I can experiment with sound by repeating a single sound in my head forming a rhythm. I can then add other repeating sounds to that, so that they fit into that same rhythm, gradually building it up into music. I reckon a lot of the sounds are fragments of sounds that I have heard before, sometimes it can be a single fragment of a sentence that someone has said, which I can then turn into a sound.

Sometimes it happens spontaneously (this used to happen a lot when I was a kid) or I can have a measure of control over it. It is very emotional and I am usually exhausted by the time it finishes.

Anyone else get that?

I've always heard music in exhaust fans, air conditioners, etc. Assumed it was normal rather than autism-spectrum stuff, but maybe it isn't. Hmmm...


Cheers,

TH

I have episodes, where I hear music that isn't there. It could be in the middle of the night, or when I'm in a mellow mood, as I walk somewhere.

I get songs stuck in my head frequently, which I think it pretty typical. Since I was young there have been several times when I heard clear, loud music that was not there. I badly wish that I could turn it on whenever I want.

Yes. Whenever I hear this large fan I start to hear a song from a game. And sometimes when I think about a song when I'm trying to fall asleep I can sometimes hear it a little.

I do occasionally get this. In my case, it's because I am on a car journey and the engine noise turns into music in my head. It's associated with being half asleep so that the logical side of my brain is turned off. It's quite pleasant.

I occasionally had a similar effect on train journeys, when half-heard conversations almost made random poetry in my mind. For this to work, I have to be in a half-dreaming state and not really listening. If I focus on making sense of a single conversation my brain doesn't do it.

People who want to know about this stuff could read Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia. He became interested in the subject after meeting some elderly stroke victims who suffered from what he described as attacks of incontinent music. They tended to get this in quiet situations at night. It could be thoroughly aversive, loud and oppressive band music when the sufferer has never liked band music and is trying to sleep. In another case, it was long-forgotten lullabies from the patient's childhood, giving her a sense of the comfort of her mother's care.

Like 'hearing voices', 'phantom music' is good, bad or neutral depending on the person in question and their reaction. It's just a brain trick, and doesn't have much intrinsic significance.

unless I'm listening to it in my head, not that much as of recent, but I did used to hear what sounded like high-pitched frequencies a lot back when I was a kid when it was generally very quiet all around.

I'd completely forgotten about that until this discussion; and thanks, now I hear it again.