Is it quiet in your head?

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When it's quiet, and there's nothing to hear, I can still hear sounds in my head. It's almost like hundreds, maybe thousands of crickets all chirping at once. I've had that for as long as I can remember. I finally asked my husband about it and he looked at me like this . Do any of you have that? Or am I weird?

A topic like this seems to get started at least once a week. Racing thoughts that you can't turn off seem to be a common problem around here. I'm no different.

Strange, I could say. But there are stages of quietness within the mind of one. Some say that there is a stage called 'tabula rasa' which is the concluding statement that says at birth, people's minds are filled with nothing, as if there is no innate knowledge, but instead it is gathered throughout the stimuli of the environment that is connected or even relocated throughout the nerves of a person, even at birth. If this is true, then I can see why you would have sounds in your head. I think we all do. A mind is never truly blank, not that I think, anyways. For it is filled with subconscious thoughts and notions that pertain to memory and futuristic desires among other subjects. However, a repetitious sound sounds like something else, but I am no doctor. For I have no reason to diagnose you.

When it comes to noise, it is more like gamma interspersed throughout its audio form. Like a fusion of sound waves. That is like the 'backup' after all, particularly if the mind is busy. The mind can be busy even if it is peaceful, because it focuses on one thing: it may not be thought, but it may be particles that are heard.

It's not even thoughts though, it's just noise.

Still, we're similar in that it's not quiet in our heads. If you find a way to cure it, let us know, because we're just as clueless.

Edit: Are you actually hearing noises that aren't there, or is the noise just in your head, like you're thinking of crickets chirping?

Nope, it's just in my head. And like I said, it's ALWAYS been there. I didn't know if it might go along with the Asperger's or what, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

I can easily get segments of a song or a movie scene stuck on repeat in my head for a while.

If it's just in your head, I would still file it under "thoughts" that you can't turn off. But like I said, I haven't heard of a solution for it, not even from my psychologist.

My boyfriend gets pissed at me because I always complain about not being able to fall asleep at night and I told him, "Well, you don't have to listen to the same song you heard the night before playing in your head full blast, and then a conversation that you had with your high school English teacher five years ago (word for word), and then the capitals of all the countries in Asia, and, oh yeah, the song's still playing."

I solemnly believe that a mind is always filled with noise, if not thought. How can a mind be completely empty? It is the brain of you. Even throughout meditative moods, there will probably be white noise that is heard. It's almost from another person's perspective. I think when you are more focused on these sounds, if they are not thoughts, they will be sounds at a higher form, with closer attention payed for them, where you can here the wrinkling crispy noises. After all, a person's mind is full of innate complexities, built up sounds that are triggered from the electrical cords and whatnot. It's like a stimuli that is highly tied in with perception, especially in a meditative or quite form, and can often times be steered upon during a panic attack, because you're 'locked' in that altitude of sound. A higher sound.

I listen to lots of music but even if I don't listen for weeks I still have songs playing in my head. Sometimes songs will appear that I haven't heard for decades. No cricket noises for me though, each mind has its own unique symphony.

Sounds often bounce around in my head for quite a while after the actual sound stops. Car alarms, or anything else that is rhythmic, is especially bad for this. I don't know if that's the same as what you mean though.

No. I always "hear" my thoughts. I can't think without hearing myself talk in my head, and I am always thinking about something.

I always have music going in my head. It actually gets annoying because once a song is in there it's quite difficult to change.

quiet the way you are saying that i can't actually hear any noise with my ears.

but in a bombarding thought process that the others describe, then no my head is never quiet, unless i have been knocked out for surgery or test at the hospital, it is nonstop chaos up there. i'm not sure if this is common or not but besides the thoughts i actually have a constant headache, like my brain is a machine that never turns off. if i think to much which is completely random i can develop a full migraine for what seems like no reason, and i have no control over that at all.