Musical Ear Syndrome

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For those of you who are not familiar with what Musical Ear Syndrome (MES), people with Musical Ear Syndrome usually have hearing loss and develop auditory hallucinations where an individual may experience music or sounds that are heard without an external source (i.e. video game music playing in your head when no video game music is coming from an actual outside source). These hallucinatory experiences differ in phenomenology from that commonly experienced in psychotic disorders although there may be some overlap. The main difference between someone with MES and someone with a psychotic disorder is that that someone with MES realizes that the hallucinations are not real whereas someone with a psychotic disorder does not.

I suspect that I have it since a lot of times, video game music or good songs or dialogue from a TV show I watched has played in my head without any of it coming from an external source and the fact that I realize that when that is happening, they are not actually being played and just music that's playing in my head.

I am wondering if anyone here on WrongPlanet on here (besides me) suspects that they have Musical Ear Syndrome.

Interesting. I suppose that's how Beethoven was able to write his 9th symphony.

One time, I heard music playing outside my head, like it was coming from a source outside my head, but I could not find the source. Computer, speakers, radio, TV all off, windows and doors all closed in winter, and the music was equal in volume no matter where I went. I dunno if this was an auditory hallucination. The music was just like music playing from the radio, and I heard it outside, not inside, my head, eggsacly like real. It was bizarre, and the music I had never heard before. It sounded like gothic music, ackshuly quite nice, but also creepy considering that I could not find the source.

I can hear ultrasound and the neuroscientists told me it's not coming through my eardrums but my scull.
How weird is that?

My father and my children can hear it as well? I can hear my wireless modem, deer alarms...
it mostly sounds like the high pitched noise from a tube tv but it changes pitch and bounces a bit.
I think it is communication device so i will hear the alien mother ship coming back for me.
I'm gonna really give them the what for! Leaving me behind was NOT COOL!

I cant make sense of your description - is the poll for - if you can hear music, OUTSIDE your head, but it is actually INSIDE your head?
Just for clarification please.

You know, now that I think about it, I'm always hearing things that aren't there, and my hearing seems to be going out.

I often hear music playing in my head.

I have musical ear syndrome but I also have hearing loss, so that explains it.

I do hear music from inside my head outside my head (that was one strange sentence), but I don't have any problems with my hearing. It's also not music I've heard before. Usually it's orchestral or a choir and I hardly ever listen to that. I thought it might have something to do with synesthesia. I have instrument->colour synesthesia and I know a few other synesthetes with MES too.