repetitive listening to parts of songs etc...

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Just wondering if anyone else does this. I was thinking about this earlier, and I realised that I have always had this thing about listening to the same parts of certain songs over and over. I often find myself listening to a song and either forwarding or rewinding to a certain section repeatedly, ignoring the rest of the song. I have also made a few CDs made up exclusively by snippets of certain songs. I remember burning a 12-track CD made up purely of a particular section of the Nine Inch Nails song 'The Downward Spiral'. (If you're interested, it's the weird jangly part between 01:54 and 02:33. I altered the section by doing things like changing the pitch, tone, adding reverb and so on.)

I've also noticed this tendency when watching films and even reading books.

Anyone else do this? Any ideas why you do it?

Hmmm. I've never considered it a stim, but maybe you're right.

I do this all the time. Or sometimes I listen to a whole song repetitively. Maybe I'll listen to the same song for a month.

I do and have done it since I was a child.

Back then, I used to drive my parents insane by picking up the needle in the middle of the song and moving it back again and again (fellow oldsters know what I mean by "picking up the needle). In these days of mp3 files, it's much easier to isolate snippets.

janissy, your profile says you re NT. But these are not Nt symptoms, i guess?

I do this. I do it more than listening to entire songs over and over.

yep all the time, my ipod has been set on repeat for 6 years now lol, unless i wanan change it hehe

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I rewind parts of movies and watch certain scenes over and over again. It irritates my mum, so I try not to do it unless I'm watching a film by myself. I also like to listen to the same song over and over again, sometimes for over 3 hours at a time. My earliest memory of doing this is when I was 6 years old. I used to rewind tapes so I could listen to the same song over and over again. It's much easier to do with my MP3 Player because I can just change the settings so it plays the same song on repeat.

I do that ALL the time. I can't really say why I do it; all I can say is I just like how the music mixes together in parts. My Pink Floyd collection has always been subject to this; the layers of sound in each track is very appealing.

My son does this too. He also quotes the scenes or words to the songs over and over. Sometimes he acts out scenes of movies he watches over and over. I wish he was old enough to tell me why he does this. All I get now is I don't know.

Yup.

ruveyn