certain phrases in your head

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do you ever get parts of songs, phrases, or words stuck in your head endlessly repeating over and over for a good 5-10 minutes before you completely forget what it was and you start on something else to repeat? It sort of stops my function a bit so remembering things in that time frame doesn't go over so well.

nahh, not really.
i do get parts of songs stuck in my head sometimes though,
but then again, so does everybody from time to time so it's nothing special.

rather than habitually think something endlessly, my brain tends to go into quiet mode & my thinking just goes kind of blank and it's like the only thing my brain registers is sensory input: touch, smell, sound, etc. without the chatter of my brain's commentary on it.

but that only happens if i'm not doing anything really and don't feel the need to think. it feels almost like my intellectual brain shuts off and switches to the primal brain. unsurprisingly, your sense of hearing seems to sharpen when your brain is silent, and when i do that i feel kinda spacey, but oddly more alert at the same time.

but there are also times when i think endlessly too. but not something repeating, but just thinking about EVERYTHING. Like suddenly my life decides to flash before my eyes and i think about all sorts of crazy random things from the past, i also think about the future, the present, philosophy, life, people, events, problems, imaginings, basically just about everything. and not even because i really try or want to. thoughts just wander into my head. and this all usually happens when i'm trying to sleep too which is kind of annoying because then i can't sleep 'cause my brain won't shut up & turn off & then i end up reading books into the early morning til i finally just pass out asleep from the exhaustion of staying up wayyy too late. then end up sleeping in which i hate because then i miss most of the day. but then it throws off my sleep schedule so it happens just about every night because then i've slept most of the day so i'm not tired til way late again. and so it starts a vicious cycle of pseudo-insomnia. even now it's like 30 minutes after midnight. but i'm simply nowhere near tired yet. thankfully i have lots of reading material or i'd go insane with boredom

Oh goddddd, yes. XD;;; Maybe not endlessly repeating, but like.. repeating throughout the day. And a lot of the same phrases come back after weeks/months, and some TUNES have come back after YEARS. D:

Really random sh** too. Like the music from the romantic part of that George of the Jungle movie. And the phrase "Oooh what a McGovern I've been,", which I FINALLY figured out was from Futurama. XD;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Oh my GOD that one drives me insane. It's such a weird phrase, and it won't. go. away.

Yes, I have this very much so.. but less the forgetting part of it you mentioned. I can have a refrain of a song or even one or two lines of a song in my head repeating all day long. This esp. when I found a new good song.... and then it's not unpleasant or anything.

Less pleasant is it when someone said something (with a certain intonation and somewhat louder maybe) and I didn't get what was meant between the lines. Esp. with woman/en.. (.. I like) than I can go quite compulsively over and over it trying to give it the place it 'belongs'. This can go with well meant flirty hinting stuff as well.. where I find out, for instance, she was hitting on me.. and I'm already home again (alone).

Bummer. (je suis fou)

Yes, I've usually got some horrible TV jingle going around in my head, or a line from a song, sometimes a swear-word. To make matters worse I also compulsively count and make geometrical shapes in my mind and tap out the corners of them out with my teeth or finger tips. There is always some sort of rubbish just going around and around in my mind. I can be watching a film on TV and suddenly notice I've just counted to over 100 and stop counting, then a few minutes later I'm tapping out geometrical shapes on my knee and notice I've reached 80 something counting the corners again. On and on and on. I don't know if it is a sort of stim or an obsessive compulsive thing. I must count into the tens of thousands every day in small batches of up to around a hundred.

Ok, so it wasn't just me with this do-hickey thing.

Yes, I get that stuck in my head for hours, even days sometimes...
The only way I end up getting it out my head is to listen Tobit over and over and over again until I eventually get bored of listening to it and eventually it comes out of my head.. apparently that works for me.

This happens to me all the time.
Especially when I wake up.
It can be the weirdest things.
Today, I had a Jonas Brothers song stuck in my head and I never listen them.
It just constantly repeats itself.

Yep, all the time. It can be songs, quotes, things I heard people say recently or long ago, lines from movies/TV shows, really anything. Parts of songs last the longest usually, most of everything else will only last for a short while at a time but continue intermittently over days or weeks.

Earlier today, Magnus brought up Plato's Symposium in a different thread and I instantly got the verse beginning of Agathon's speech running through my head rapid fire style. It was irritating kind of cause I haven't read the Symposium in like a year and so only had maybe 30% of it memorized, so my mind was doing stutter-stops and jumping huge gaps and totally screwing up the rhythm of the whole thing.

It was further irritating because that's one of my favorite passages ever and I was mad that I didn't have more of it memorized

That one lasted for close to an hour.

Yes, I always tend to repeat a phrase of a song in my head over and over again many many times.

The most extreme ever was when I first discovered the Jets to Brazil--Orange Rhyming Dictionary album. This was maybe 3 years ago, I was super depressed at the time, and for literally months straight it was:

I'm tired of fighting so I'm demolished and that's the way
Some make exhaustion a mode of expression and that's their way
I'm just a question knowing my answer I hope I'm wrong
I know the answer it's 4 in the morning I'm right again I'm Chinatown

It was more or less 24/7.