When listening to music in your head, are you derailed?

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11 Dec 2015, 6:08 pm

Sometimes, when playing music in my head, it gets derailed and goes on the track of a different song. I will try to replay in my head the part of the piece of music where the derailment occurred and try to get it going on the right track, but I can't any longer figure it out (before, I would have been able to go without derailment) and just like before the music gets derailed and goes on the track of a different song.

Does anyone else have this?

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11 Dec 2015, 7:15 pm

Yeah! And sometimes it gets stuck, repeting the same 3/4 of a bar forever.

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11 Dec 2015, 7:41 pm

Jensen wrote:

Yeah! And sometimes it gets stuck, repeting the same 3/4 of a bar forever.

^^^^ That's the worst!! !

But, I always have some tune in my head. Like a background din.

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11 Dec 2015, 7:45 pm

No, not really. Sometimes I can't remember the lyrics so I switch to a new song or skip that part.

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14 Dec 2015, 4:02 am

All the time, i cannot listen to a full song in my head unless i use my full focus to do so.

This also happens if i grap my instrument and just go improvise: i'll at some point reach something which sounds like a song i know, play a few bars of that song and move to another which sounds similar, i don't even notice this myself most of the time.

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14 Dec 2015, 7:25 am

Try "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with James Cagney for three days! I couldn´t derail him :-D

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17 Dec 2015, 8:13 pm

I do that sometimes too.

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17 Dec 2015, 10:04 pm

I find a phrase or portion of a song just keeps repeating itself. Even if I try to move it on or pick a different song, it just keeps looping on me.

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17 Dec 2015, 10:45 pm

Not quite the same but for a long, long time (I now realize) I kept songs looping in my head so I wouldn't have to / couldn't think about things that were troubling me. Sort of an induced, defensive derailment of my most underlying non-conscious thoughts so they wouldn't/couldn't bubble up to where I'd have to deal with them.

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17 Dec 2015, 11:12 pm

Yes, this happens to me too. Drives me nuts! This, and the looping thing too. Sometimes when I am working on a show, a piece of a song or two gets stuck in my head and I end up "singing" it even in my sleep!

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18 Dec 2015, 12:36 am

Yesterday and today, I've had the original Jonny Quest Theme song looping through my head. But, it's also skipping around a bit too. And, it always seems to skip the flute solo completely. Good thing I like it, but it's wearing on me.

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Just to spread the joy....LOL

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