Do you hear music in your head?

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Do you hear music in your head?
Never 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
Never 1%  1%  [ 2 ]
Sometimes 21%  21%  [ 69 ]
Sometimes 23%  23%  [ 73 ]
All the time 27%  27%  [ 87 ]
All the time 28%  28%  [ 90 ]
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Dhawal
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26 Apr 2013, 4:29 pm

I hear music in my head 24/7, so I wanted to know about the others. I mostly hear songs I've heard in past couple of days. If I haven't heard anything in 2-3 days, there's original stuff. Usually electronic beats, chords, minimal DJ stuff.
And yeah, 24/7 means even if I wake in the middle of the night, there's something playing in my head!


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26 Apr 2013, 5:07 pm

I do...most of the time.



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26 Apr 2013, 5:18 pm

I hear music in my head only sometimes. If I feel really emotional, I hear music in my head constantly and have a desperate need to get it out of my head and hear it with my ears.


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26 Apr 2013, 6:09 pm

Constantly.


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26 Apr 2013, 6:38 pm

I've gotten used to it, but there's always AT LEAST one song going in my head. Sometimes more than one.



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26 Apr 2013, 7:23 pm

All the time. My dreams have soundtracks, too, tunes composed and played by my subconscious; and I remember the tunes for a while after waking.



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26 Apr 2013, 7:35 pm

My ability to hear music all of the time may not always be good, but as a musician, it is pretty beneficial. I once made a concept EP based on me always heari.g music in my head.



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27 Apr 2013, 5:43 pm

All the time. My mind can't take a rest and the music just keeps playing. Makes it hard for me to fall asleep.


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29 Apr 2013, 6:25 pm

I hardly ever listen to music at all, and only by conscious effort can I “play” it in my head. The one exception I remember was when I spent a whole night listening to a few songs while doing some academic task. I couldn’t shake them off my mind in the whole next day. The fact that I played them using some otherworldly effects built into the sound card may have helped, too. This was, of course, the form in which I kept “hearing” the songs in my head.



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29 Apr 2013, 7:09 pm

I hear music in my head constantly. In fact, the only time in which I don't hear music, is when my mind automatically begins to imagine how Stewie Griffin would have tackled the last social situation I was involved in, which is something I have very little control over...



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01 May 2013, 2:38 am

Dhawal wrote:
I mostly hear songs I've heard in past couple of days.

That is the main reason I think twice before going to any church on a Sunday--the hymns will be constantly replaying themselves in my head until at least the middle of the week. Good music, but still not a suitable sound track for every weekday situation. :flower:



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01 May 2013, 2:56 pm

Sometimes I hear songs in my head that do not actually exist. Sometimes they are quite intricate and sound quite good.

I hear music in my head very often. One time, working in a grocery store, the background music stopped, yet I had no problem listening to songs in my head to distract me from the work.


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01 May 2013, 10:20 pm

Sometimes I do wake up with some random song of bit of music in my head. Often its something I haven't listened to in a long time and it just pops up out of nowhere.



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06 May 2013, 11:22 pm

I don't hear it like I am actually hearing it, but songs run through my head sometimes in my thoughts. It's not like hearing voices or anything, I don't really hear it.


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27 May 2013, 8:39 pm

Most of the time, the music in my head is songs that I like.


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05 Oct 2013, 5:16 am

All the time, I hear music in my head, as well as some random snippet of a cartoon or weird pictures and words.
Sometimes I make up my own songs and let them play in my head.


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