Do words get stuck in your head like music?

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I work nights. I kept myself up all day with the phrase "BIGGIE SMALLS:NOTORIOUS B.I.G." Twelve solid hours. What I really don't understand is I'm a 'Pac fan, if anything...

This is an interesting topic.

Internal Echolalia: This is the term used by the poster Alei. Here is yet another topic for research. I wonder if this has anything to do with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) tht has been associated with persons living on the Austism Spectrum. I have a hunch that the voices some people hear may be either the same or similar to internal echolalia.

My answer to the question asked in the forum is affirmative. This has been happening since my earliest memory of existence.

yes. when mental profesionals ask me those questions-- "do you hear voices?" or "do you hear things other people don't?" --i never know how to answer. i just say no, because i am not hearing ACTUAL voices, i know it's my own brain repeating stuff, so i don't really think of it in a "voices in my head" way.

but i have thought about how it is related to intrusive thoughts. however, my internal echolalia does not usually distress me-- i am mostly amused by the things my head spins round.

congruent. and now... i am IN CONGRUENT!
congruent. incongruent. trapped inside of congruent. congruent insides of my head.
congruent is just fun to play with. people? not so much.

Parts of movies sometimes get stuck in my head. Like one line said by a certain character. It's annoying X_X;;

Of course! My mind is like a skipping record; I am prone to repeating the same word, name, or phrase to myself over and over again.

Bork
Williams syndrome
Chicken
Paul Celan
Membrane
Britches
Lawrencium
Reductio ad absurdum

And that is just today.

rare occasions. Last time it was 'the family atomics'...from Dune.

All. The. Time.

Trippy, ticklish, alliterative phrases I make up are the most common, especially if they make me laugh. One word like "bibliobibuli" may ricochet around my head for a few days and then be replaced by "Yekaterinburg," which will be replaced by "sextodecimo," which will be replaced by... And on and on. Sometimes whole poems of nonsense words rock and rhyme over and over and over, but they aren't annoying. I like them. They feel good.

When I first saw your subject "Do words get stuck in your head like music?" I thought, "Yes, they sing and swing and soar just like music." A collection of words in my head can also fit together as vividly colored Tinkertoys. The words are the wooden spools of various sizes and I hear the colored sticks snicking them together with other words. They swoop and spin in three dimensions and I feel like I'm a joyful three years old again, twisting "tepid" to "terpsichorean" in tattoo time in blues, reds, greens and yellows.

Um, I enjoy words. Heh.

All the time, as seems to be the case with many others. If some word has attracted me, it stays going around in my head, usually for a long time. They don't just stay there - I play with them. I see them, I hear them, heck, I think I can almost taste them.

This happens to me all of the time. Gregarious is the one word that seems to get stuck in my head the most. What is even worse is when I start spelling the word in my head, over and over.

I'm almost never one to sit there and listen to a song over and over and over, but I Youtubed Sistern Nancy - Bam Bam, haven't been able to stop listening.