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My son is very often playing a soundtrack in his head. I've only become aware of it recently because he was not that verbal when he was younger. I'm not sure how long this has been going on. He appreciates music more than I can understand.

Is anyone else here the same way?

I have a lifelong fascination with music, could pat rythyms as a child in time on my thighs (in time meaning musically in time, not random) and can as an adult pick up any instrument and get music out of it. I even got a cheap clarinet from eBay and can play. I have never had a music lesson.

The soundtrack in my head is a constant, and I hear music where there is none--I hear random sounds around me and hear them as melody--not as actual music, but the possibility of it. That may not make much sense, but it's difficult to explain.

I once was overheard patting as a child by some guy who asked my mom how many drum lessons I'd had, because I was patting alternately in 3/4, 4/4, and 7/8 time, the last being especially difficult. She replied I'd had no music lessons. I was 8. All I was doing was imitating the rythyms in songs I'd heard, but I hear them in more detail than most people.

Is your son like that at all? Or is it something else?

I really love music too. I can play alot of different instruments and learn them pretty quickly. The more time I spend on them, of course, the better I can get.. But If I'm handed an instrument I've never played before, soon I can get music out of it and it is alot faster than the average person trying to play a new instrument. I don't know how to read music very well though, and just mostly play by hear.. I haven't had many music lessons either. My bother is the same way.

I think it's either a gene or it's some part of the brain that might have developed more that allows me to pick out the finer details in music, etc., unlike the other side of my brain (the side with ability to discern fine social details) that somehow didn't get as much "juice" while developing... ha... if that makes any sense? I used to try to turn anything into a drum to hit when I was a kid too.. I wanted to be a drummer when I was 7, but wasn't allowed.

Hey, you all might really like to see the move "August Rush" with Robin Williams about a young boy that is musically gifted and hears the music around him. It was a really good movie and inspiring. I have felt like nature is a symphony at times, with the birds' music and the stream, the wind causing a tree branch to hit another is almost a percussive way.. etc... I loved this movie : ) I came from a musical family and can relate alot to it.

I love music. Sadly i don't have any savant type abilities, or even any abilities at all. I am a non-musician. I can only appreciate what has a strong instant effect on me, I consume music like a pop fan even though a lot of what I listen to is very obscure. I don't stop thinking about it ever.

I also love music.

I had a vivid fascination with music from childhood, though my family has little to do with music. Nevertheless, I hummed and sang out loud from a very early age on and when I couldn't do that, I had music in my head. Often things I had heard elsewhere, some whole melodies, often only parts of melodies I had managed to pick up elsewhere. I also enjoyed random sounds a great deal Listening to real music didn't catch much of my interest though until I was about ten, because I couldn't actively sit and listen to even the nicest songs.

The thing that fascinated me most about music and still does so is that for me music isn't just for my ears. When I listen to music, it's like a tune that carries a massage, whether practical or emotional, in form of 'movement'. Nothing I experience with my sense, but I feel as if music is something that moves people like speech can do, a lot better than speech does, just that nobody I know seems to get what this music says. It can sooth, help figuring things out, it can be an example of how happy I am or it stands for a simple everyday routine.

Music was my own form of communication with myself mainly, when my own speech failed. Maybe that is a satisfying way to put it. Even today, music still carries a lot more meaning at once than I can express with words, no matter how brilliant people tell me that I can be with words, but I have trouble putting music into the context of my everyday life now and get frustrated about it.

Reminds me of that I wish I'd be brave enough to try and play the keyboard I have, I'm afraid it doesn't work out since I've never taken music lessons.

(Edited because I feel like a slow slug today, extremely slow in writing.)

I also got frustrated when I couldn't sing a melody like it was in my head. I still get frustrated with that even in singing lessons! Finally I'm not alone with this issue, it's so horribly annoying if tunes don't match.

Music YES!! In my head, most of the time. I've taken to running mp3's on my work computer constantly to have new input, otherwise I would just cycle the same melody through my head over and over and over....

Instrument YES!! But I'd suggest something that had have headphones attached... Or else the music might drive everyone else up the wall. I play a half dozen instruments, but my current favorite is my Yamaha keyboard, because it can imitate sooooo many other instruments and I can wear headphones with it.

Yes.

I always have both songs and dance moves going on in my head. I've been obsessed with Gene Kelly since I was a kid (he was on The Muppet Show and in Xanadu when I was 11). Currently, I've been watching old musicals with a lot of dancing.

I was never offered dance lessons when I was a kid, I didn't know they existed. I think I could have been a professional dancer, really great too. Even fat and out of shape, I can bust a move.

I love to sing, but have a paralyzed vocal chord. My voice sucks as a result.

My life is one big videoclip.

Don't worry, it's normal - for aspies anyway.

It will help him study/remember believe it or not since he'll be able to remember what was going on when the music was going.

I have themes/songs for all the important people and events in my life.

Thanks everybody. All of the responses have been very helpful.

i'm the same! especially when i was younger

Play the piano for 22 years now. The only thing is there can be a tendency to over practice....