To me, there's a difference between and earworm (a song stuck in your mind) and "music in your mind". When I am manic I have music playing in my mind constantly. It's not annoying - it's inspiring. I can, for example, lie down and "listen" to an entire song (or songs...or symphony...oftentimes the music is Pink Floyd because of all the subtleties of sound in their music). I find it rather fascinating.


When I'm on a clinical dose (or higher) of Lamictal the music is gone most of the time. (And yes, I miss it.)

I do want to say that having chronically noisy neighbors is pure hell and I'm not sure there are many stresses that are worse.