Sounds Repeating (play back) in head

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jetbuilder, YES exactly. I often wonder if it's like the photographic memory but in an audio version!

Campboy, you're right and AS is always that - a blessing and a curse. We may get compliments on our 'superpowers' but that isn't the whole picture. There are always downsides.

Thank you for sharing!!

I agree about the horror stuff. I used to watch some and then I was pressured into watching horror movies with my ex but I used to cover my ears and close my eyes, which defeats the whole purpose of going I guess, except it pleased him.

Finally I started saying NO to things. I know now that I cannot UNDO things that I take into my mind. Maybe NTs can, or they can erase them or just never think about them again but if they had a loop that ran those horrible images and sounds over and over in their head, I don't think they would enjoy taking them in anymore.

That's a good song. Yes the dark side is very upsetting. I can't explain to anyone why I'm scared of backmasking. There is no reason it should terrify me as it does. I don't think there are devils or hidden messages in it that are Satanic, I just think it's creepy. Of course a classic Asperger's symptom is sensory issues, so maybe there doesn't have to be a reason for it to be terrifying, it just is.

My sisters used to love to pick on me with the weird noises and always say them at me after I told them about it. They only did this when we were kids, thank God, but they were seriously mean. I have another disability that is very obvious, so maybe this was their way of getting back at me, as it's hard for the "normal" kids to live with a disabled sibling.

Oh crap! My mental jukebox just decided to treat me to Ryan Kelly of Celtic Thunder, who I am listening to right now, speaking backwards. I am officially freaked out now. Thank you, stupid mental jukebox *shudder*.

Speaking of creepy horror stuff, I used to hear those radio PSA's from the Ad Council and they creeped me out. I then would get treated, usually in the shower, to replays of them followed by backwards talking. Even worse, sometimes if I hear something creepy or get scared, my brain responds with the weird noises. Now PSA's have become a special interest, and I like them really creepy, but I haven't been able to watch them in a while because of the anxiety issues. Now I have to stick with funny commercials. I think I'm going to try to watch some PSA's tonight and pray that I can enjoy them without hearing people talk backwards tonight.

I love to listen to songs in my own head. it's my own personal lifelong obsession, it happens naturally and I can have a verse of a song looping in my head from the moment I wake up, completely random song, if I am in a rush, the loop gets faster as I rush around faster. since I was a child I loved to sing and whistle so I end up whistling and singing it too, the passion comes from being able to replicate the notes. (Impersonating) it's something that has been so compulsive my whole life and it gives me such a rush, nothing will stop me. Sometimes I even shut people's conversation out just to satisfy the urge to connect with the note and the feeling of the song. Sometimes I hear a song in my head and I've just got to listen to it. I have a lifetime of music in my head to listen too. Sometimes it is annoying and I think it's OCD and I wish I could turn it off, but it's also a passion. I would not live without music. I can feel the weight of the music in my hands. It's like a tensor or band. I also count letters whilst looking at words in twos, threes fives ect, over and over in my head and to the clock ticking when I'm stressed.

I woke up this morning with a song stuck in my head (as I usually do), and I had been listening to music from my laptop while I was asleep. The songs were not on shuffle and I remembered which song I had started on, and at the point it was at the song in my head was waaaay down the list. I haven't had that song come up recently on shuffle either. I often wake up with a random song in my head (actually I think I always do, but I haven't really thought about it much).

I'm usually playing music on my headphones, but when I'm not it almost feels like my head goes on shuffle. I pretty much always have something playing, usually a song, sometimes a phrase or conversation I heard or read, or just one word. I just noticed a few days ago too, somewhere I must have seen or heard the word "American" and it was repeating in my head, and also several songs that have the word in the title were playing as well. Not simultaneously, but it kept switching.

Grommit - I can feel your love for the music coming through here in your words!

As for the counting thing - I have some of that, too. I have an automatic counter that starts when I do something repetitive. Like chopping a vegetable. I don't think about it at all but at the last chop I am aware of "EIGHT!" or whatever the number is. Many times while I'm chopping or cutting or stirring or something I'm aware of the numbers going along with the activity. It's not annoying, just always has been there. A few times it has actually come in handy

Yes - L_Holmes - I have a word or phrase stick like that and then I start seeing it or versions of it in other places. It's like a need to find symmetry or to match up the world. I have this with colors as well. Like a book I'm holding is a certain shade of blue and I see a bit of the same shade of blue on a shoe in the closet. I look back and forth from one to the other with great pleasure. Have also been known to take one object to the other and hold them side by side and just enjoy the sameness.

Visual pleasure.

Our senses are really wonderful. At least I believe that we marvel at the world much more than NT people do.

I love this forum.

It provides such a sense of relief and fitting in.

When I was sick at age 7, many years ago, I could hear the Wiggles theme song as if it were really playing in my room.

When I listen to a lot of music I have it playing in my mind and I can hear it just like it plays in reality and go over parts I especially like over and over again. I listen mostly to electronic music (mostly without lyrics) and classical.

Also have synesthasia so can feel sounds, like physically-- goosebumps, vibrations, thrilling rushes in my body, etc. that are quite strong and sometimes at work I have to be careful when I'm listening to my Ipod because some of the music can cause me to literally get weak and have to stop and listen to the song or part of it that causes that reaction a few times. (obviously I can't get a lot of work done that way lol)

I say it's a real treat sometimes to have this unique sensory condition.

Edited to add: I think I stim off of my synesthasia while listening to music, so on that level music sticks harder in my head than in most others. Just a perspective I just had!

Yay, someone else with audio/tactile synesthaesia. I feel music, words, and voices, although not all of them. Some feel good and some feel absolutely horrible. I'm always trying to trigger myself. The awesome thing is when you get triggered if someone says a certain word, and then your eyes glaze over.

I believe it is related to ones phonological loop, which most humans have. Yes I constantly find myself playing the last thing I heard over and over again in my head for hours. Helps me get through the dull days.

Thanks, Whatplanet.