Bad enough when "Small World" won't go away!

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:05 am

Family forum. Wouldn't want you to "freak out", man. Actually its fairly juvenile.

djm

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:29 am

djm wrote: Family forum. Wouldn't want you to "freak out", man. Actually its fairly juvenile.

djm

... I respect juvenile. So, send it via PM maybe?

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:25 am

djm wrote: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

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.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:32 am

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.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:34 am

Cynth wrote: I mean obviously you aren't crazy, right?

I dunno, sometimes that's very debatable.....

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:50 am

When I was a watchkeeper on nightshift in various earth stations around the globe, the brain would have a hard time coping with the constant noise of airconditioners and equipment cooling-fans. When things were quiet I'd sit back in the chair at the control console and let Brain do its thing... I heard music and conversations like a badly tuned radio while the gray cells tried to make sense out of the noise. Really rather cool, actually. I used to have the most astonishingly vivid dreams after a night shift on the stations, must've been the 'sensory deprivation' or something.

Uhm.... I'll go now....

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:03 am

GaryKelly wrote:When I was a watchkeeper on nightshift in various earth stations around the globe, the brain would have a hard time coping with the constant noise of airconditioners and equipment cooling-fans. When things were quiet I'd sit back in the chair at the control console and let Brain do its thing... I heard music and conversations like a badly tuned radio while the gray cells tried to make sense out of the noise. Really rather cool, actually. I used to have the most astonishingly vivid dreams after a night shift on the stations, must've been the 'sensory deprivation' or something.

Uhm.... I'll go now....

Working security some years ago, I used to pull night shifts at places that had a lot of background noise like that...starts to sound like there's a radio on somewhere in the building.

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:26 am

Tyler wrote:starts to sound like there's a radio on somewhere in the building

Creepy, eh? Electric fans or the wind rushing over the rearview mirror when I'm driving will do that to me. Can't quite pull the station in to clearly hear what's being said .... probably just an ad. :roll:

djm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:29 am

djm wrote:
Tyler wrote:starts to sound like there's a radio on somewhere in the building
Creepy, eh? Electric fans or the wind rushing over the rearview mirror when I'm driving will do that to me. Can't quite pull the station in to clearly hear what's being said .... probably just an ad. :roll:

djm

It's the US gov't trying to sell you war bonds!

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:31 pm

sometimes when I'm half-awake but still half in a dream, I'll hear music, sometimes in dreams I hear songs in detail I didn't know I was capable of remembering, as if I were listening to a radio.

Thankfully I don't have any weird hallucinations when I'm actually awake. That could get annoying.

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:31 pm

-Its true "Small World" is a clinging piece of musical irritation, like "Hamster Dance". The pseudo-"Small World" dolls in Shrek 2 reduced me to a laughing lump, proof I'm easily amused. Does this mean I'm "lumpen" as in lumpenproletariat? Laughing lumps of the world, unite!

-Just where do those hamsters learn dance anyway, Hamsterdam?

-gotta knock off stream-of-consciousness post replies-