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10 Mar 2010, 11:20 am

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I am a huge fan of rock and metal music, and I tend to hear music in my head all the time. (literally 24/7) Does anyone else?

That's quite a normal thing if you listen to music a lot.

I do it sometimes, especially when I have a favourite song I listen to over and over (though I hear that way of listening to music isn't normal :lol:

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10 Mar 2010, 11:28 am

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JHenry2848 wrote:

There is a different between daydreaming music and actually become convinced that you are hearing music that isnt there.

For instance I talk to myself in my own head. But I dont consider that to mean that im hearing voices.

Which one is it exactlly?

Some do hear it "out loud". It's hard to tell from people's descriptions whether they actually hear it or can just reproduce it exactly in their mind's "ear". I don't hear it out loud. I wish I could but only if I could turn it on and off at will. I have however heard an audible inner voice calling my name though.

I don't know if I'd say I hear it "out loud"...but definitely not just thinking of a melody. I can't turn it on/off at will. I've got so used to it that I don't know what it would be like without it.

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10 Mar 2010, 12:39 pm

You too?

I'm not sure if I'm AS or not. But I do hear music in my head, constantly. Right now it's The Fixx's "One Thing Leads To Another". Sometimes I'll hear snippets of music where I KNOW I know the song, but I can't remember the name or who did it. Recently I kept hearing the last notes of Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You" and it took me nearly a half hour before I figured out what the song was! (Now I'm hearing that one in my head!)

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10 Mar 2010, 1:34 pm

ericfromcowtown wrote:

Not music, but conversations.

Not psychophrenic like, they're always my voice within my control, but it's a definite dialogue between me (person A) and me (person B). B is sometime visualized as someone I know or used to know, or is other times "faceless."

For example, as I was reading the responses, I was having a conversation in my head where I am hashing out the response that I am writing right now with a nameless someone.

At least my conversations are different and don't happen over-and-over again like a stuck jukebox. That could be annoying.

Yeah I get that too sometimes. I have a tendency to plan out possible future scenarios in my head with friends and/or "faceless" people like u said, but the moment rather never comes, or it does and I don't act the same way as I planned.

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10 Mar 2010, 1:37 pm

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Yes, but in my case it's mainly classical... Do you ever "invent" your own music in your head? Sometimes I'll get a piece in my head, and can't get it out... and it drives me up the wall, but I can never write it all down in time. :wall:

You a musician or something? Cause I play guitar and I "invent" my own rock music in my head, sometimes with organs and pianos and even strings hehe. But I can never figure out the notes of whatever the hell I'm "playing" in my head lol.

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10 Mar 2010, 3:40 pm

radiohead234 wrote:

I am a huge fan of rock and metal music, and I tend to hear music in my head all the time. (literally 24/7) Does anyone else?

I'm not a fan of rock and metal music, but yes, I hear music in my head all the time. I cannot validate that I hear it when I am asleep, but I often wake and realize that the same song is playing in my head as what was playing when I fell asleep. I've learned to change what is playing in there. If I don't like what is playing, I will start something else playing on top of the stuck tune, and most of the time, I can make something else play in there. What I seem to have no ability to do is to play nothing.

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10 Mar 2010, 4:00 pm

This happens to me quite a lot it can beats, bass and other samples of music.

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10 Mar 2010, 4:09 pm

Pretty much non-stop, even when I'm sleeping/trying to go to sleep. It can get in the way sometimes.

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10 Mar 2010, 4:11 pm

Yes, all the time. I think of it as a radio in my head. I can't really control it. It usually decides to play the same music all day. Sometimes, it changes the music once or twice in a day. Since I play Mario games a lot, the music played is mainly from Mario games.

mgran wrote:

Do you ever "invent" your own music in your head? Sometimes I'll get a piece in my head, and can't get it out... and it drives me up the wall, but I can never write it all down in time. :wall:

This happened to me, even in a dream once.

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10 Mar 2010, 4:36 pm

Yep, music blasting 24/7 in my mind, along with conversations, visual imagery, numerical calculations and a mass of feeling. I was musically gifted as a child, in that if I heard a tune just once, I could recall the tune after just a blip (fraction of sec) of playback. Nowadays, I constantly have at least one tune in my head at all times. Just some right-brain activity is all there is to it. Nothing really worth noting. Some people got it, others don't. Not sure that I always had music playing in the background, but it's been like this for at least a decade now.

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10 Mar 2010, 4:52 pm

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JHenry2848 wrote:

I guess I'm somewhere in-between. It's not physically audible but I can reproduce it exactly, instrumentation and all. I can turn it off but it keeps coming back when my mind is idle. The ear worm I've got now has been there for 4 days.

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10 Mar 2010, 5:16 pm

Hearing music in your head 24/7 is an attribute of having musical intelligence.

Once in a check out line of a local grocery store, the high school age check out clerk was complaining that she had been working there for so long that the piped music had started over and she was having to endure everything again. I told her that she had just revealed to me that she was musically gifted, and she replied that she played both violin and cello, and that she participates in a local youth orchestra.

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10 Mar 2010, 5:25 pm

I hear music in my head all the dang time! In just about everything I do, after I start, I get these really random songs playing in my head, note for note, word for word. Not only that, but when I'm in the middle of class and I'm falling asleep (I know, that's not the best thing to do, but it happens), I get to hearing several songs playing in my head.

That is, until the teacher wakes me up, or I do a bit of a head bop and re-focus again. At that moment, I'll notice how eerily silent it is. I'm probably the only person who actually does this.

When I'm dreaming, a song will play in my head with perfect replication, and it'll feel so real I can't tell the difference between the dream and a concert, until I wake up the next morning with sleep paralysis, then the tune changes (pun not intentional).

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10 Mar 2010, 7:35 pm

Me too. I'm a musician, so I'm pretty sure that it's normal for me.

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11 Mar 2010, 11:20 am

All the time. It's why I became a composer. And it frustrates the crap out of me that I hear all these things that I don't have the energy or time to notate. I love to listen to music, but I probably spend far less time doing it than most members of my generation because I hear an album once and replay it endlessly in my head. I used to read scores instead of listening to music - even other musicians thought that was a little wierd.

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11 Mar 2010, 1:00 pm

tonmeister wrote:

You hear the music when you read the score, the same way that many folks hear words when they read a book. I see nothing any bit strange about that. I can't do that on orchestral scores, but I do ok hearing choral music that way.

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