If you think having “It’s a Small World After All” stuck in your head is bad, there is a medical condition that is even worse!; http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/health/psychology/12musi.html?8hpib (You may have to temporarily sign up with the New York Times web site to read this.)
Rod
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Thank you.
Man, that’s weird.
Can you imagine being a musician with that condition? Yikes.
I think it is time to really start paying attention to what music you listen to. I hope the stuff you hear in stores doesn’t count if you aren’t paying attention to it.
Good Lord. Even ITM isn’t a guarantee. If I had to listen to The Dingle Regatta Jig or The Concertina Reel over and over for the rest of my remaining life, I would go MAD. Absolutely bonkers.
gee - and I thought this only happened when I was a kid and living by the WLW tower! Darn station would bleed over into everything!
I’m not sure I understand what the concern is with this. I hear music playing in my head constantly - always have. When people talk about getting a tune stuck in their head, I thought it was a common experience, because everyone seemed to be able to relate. If I don’t like what’s playing, I simply change tunes, but what ever is playing plays constantly until something else starts up a different tune. It may take me a while to even notice that the tune has changed.
djm
No, the difference is that actual auditory hallucination was what the article is about. I have music going on all the time inside, too, but it’s not like I’m actually hearing out loud it as if it were from another source, which is what that condition is.
I think it is interesting that you guys are hearing music in your heads constantly. Music is in my head sometimes, but by no means all the time.
I think “getting a tune stuck in one’s head” is something that happens to everyone----but it is the opposite of what you can do, djm. They don’t like the song and they can’t change it so it becomes very annoying. Like if you had to listen to “My Grandfather’s Clock” over and over and over wouldn’t you want to bang your head on something?
Not really. I learned a rather profane version of My Grandfather’s Clock, so it would probably keep me entertained. 
I remember when my grandmother was dying of cancer, and they kept her doped to the eyeballs on morphine for weeks. She would be singing away at the top of her voice all these old songs from her childhood. When the nurses came in, she’d urge them to go and tell them boys to stop singing outside her window. 
djm
That’s kinda creepy.
Well, had emotional significance. After a while of hearing the same thing over and over, unable to get away or turn it off you’d probably hate it and lothe any meaning/memory behind it.
Yikes! I’ve heard somewhere before that everything you’ve heard/done/said is stored in your mind, deep down, hidden where you wouldn’t normally have access to recall it all, but it’s there. Maybe this is a case where the brain opened a window to an area of that and forgot how to close it. (Not very scientific I know, but…)
Brains are interesting…
Sara
Well?
I’ll second that… well?
Family forum. Wouldn’t want you to “freak out”, man. Actually its fairly juvenile. 
djm
… I respect juvenile. So, send it via PM maybe?
Your brain really is an iPod man!
I have had similar experiences.
Ever since I was a small child I have been able to hear a song once and be able to play it by ear on the piano. Friends have commented how amazing it is that I can go to the movie theatre, return home and play the theme from the soundtrack on my baby grand. Theres no secret to it, I have always been able to “record” what I hear and “play-back” what I record at will. Hence, people precieve that I have heared a song or tune once, when in reality I have heared it several times over.
Sometimes certain tunes invade my conscious and I have some difficulty “switching” songs or turning it off at all, but this is infrequent.
What I can say for sure is, when I “play” a tune, whether it’s voluntary or not, it is like hearing it from an external source.
If this is some kind of mental illness, then by all means, paint me crazy.
Maybe they would pay you to study what does sound like real auditory hallucinations. That mental illness=crazy thing is from long ago and they don’t go together. I mean obviously you aren’t crazy, right? It is nice you can turn it off though, I think that is what would be disconcerting.
I dunno, sometimes that’s very debatable…