Does anyone else

Hear something: a sentence, a word, any noise even songs and relate those things to a movie or a song?
Ex: Holes (movie about troubled kids)
My wife said "I can fix that". My automatic thought is of that movie during the flashback scenes the African American man tells the caucasian school teacher all the time "I can fix that".
Or conversation will be going along and they trigger music lyrics and tumble out before your brain realizes they won't have a clue where that came from.

Yeah, constantly...like, a hundred times every day. I thought everyone did that.

My wife doesn't. Or at least she acts like she doesn't. Always gives me a hard time by saying "where'd that come from?" Then I have to explain my thought process and she just gaps at me with her mouth hanging open like a cod fish.

Ha, her mouth hanging open like a codfish.

This is a really interesting thread. I'm going to ask around and come back to it.

Yeah I do that, have been all my life ..

I just found out about 3 years ago that not everyone does that LOL

I spoke with my 29 year old daughter, actually read this thread to her. She's a very intelligent and intuitive woman and works as a stage set designer (so, an artist). She has battled with an anxiety disorder for most of her life, but is not bipolar. We discussed this thread & my daughter said that she definitely relates things people say to song lyrics and to scenes from movies. She said she believes that most people do, but that the difference between those who do the "normal" relating between the spoken word to lyrics or movie scenes have a brief thought of either the lyrics or the movie. Those who have a problem with relating the spoken word to lyrics/movies are the people who cannot get the lyric or movie scene to go away...it becomes obsessively stuck in their mind so it interferes with functioning (sleep, reading, work, whatever). Someone who is full-blown manic might feel pressured to talk about the intrusive lyrics, songs, movies, etc. Someone who is schizophrenic might become agitated with the association and act out that agitation.

Basically, I think (as with so many mental health issues) there is a "range." On one end is the normal association between the spoken word and a song or movie ("normal")...onto an obsessive association (troublesome)...and so on until a point at which someone with severe mental illness associates the spoken word with a song or movie and that association is all-consuming, entirely disruptive.

I have done this forever too. I knew it was abnormal from the looks I'd get when it's say something as a child. So now I normally keep them in, but here lately I haven't been able too.

Yeah, I can see that being the case and makes major sense because I'm wanting to watch the movies that become part of the conversation and until then I quote the following lines until I can't. But it goes along with my can't leave anything unfinished right now (part few months). Of someone asks something and no one knows the answer I can't let it go. I HAVE to find the answer or know the answer.

I do this a lot, but so do many of my theatre friends.

I also do this all the time and so does my sister who has no mental illness. In fact, she does this more than anyone I know (and will actually sing all the time too, ha). I think sister rags was going somewhere and I think I do obsess over this sort of thing while manic.

Yeah, it definitely sounds like a "a range" thing. tigersassy, I can understand why it would be a problem if you feel like the sounds and/or pictures in your head have to be vocalized, or you have to go with them and "finish" the situation. It sounds to me like the "pressurized" speech or thoughts common to mania.

Yeah. I'm trying to come up with reasons why my Drs have been wrong and this isn't really mania, but the more obsessed I seem to be with research and information and personal experiences I see I'm in denial, but knowing that doesn't make the desperate want for this to not be true go away.
Thanks everyone for the replies good to know I'm not alone.
Cashart, I also busy out in song randomly or I'll conduct. I've noticed this a lot more recently.

What you've described, tigersassy, can be an OCD symptom, it can be anxiety, it can be mania, it can be psychosis...since you've been diagnosed with bipolar it would probably be wise to go with that. Are you taking your prescribed meds and, if you are, are they helping?

Yep taking them. Don't want to but am. I don't know if they are helping or not. Sometimes it seems like they are then other times not so much. My morning dose of seroquel (reg) 100mg seems to work, but not long. The 50 mg I'm allowed to take up to 3 times a day don't really seem too do anything other than make my brain foggy for a bit. I don't know about the seroquel xr. Sleep has increased a bit, but not a lot.

Yeah, meds...it's usually hard to tell if they're working unless you stop taking them, then you know which ones worked and which didn't. How long have you been on medication?

I've been on my viibryd for over a year, lamictal since May, seroquel (reg) started it in January but then when I saw first Pdoc in May he made it like a prn so I basically stopped taking it until about 6weeks ago, started taking it to help me sleep, Aug 4 saw a psych NP she added seroquel xr 200mg and 50mg two times a day as needed, saw new Pdoc on Aug 13 she increased the seroquel xr to 300mg which I just filled (didn't have money to fill when prescribed, I just got paid yesterday), seroquel (reg) got increased to 100mg in morning 50mg up to 3times a day as needed. With an appt to see her again on September 3.

Hmm. It sounds like your meds, if they're going to work, should be doing the job by now. Except the Seroquel...that could take more time to reach a solid blood level.

Do you know about the low-cost or free Seroquel program from AstraZeneca? Check out their website - I received free Seroquel for two years and all i had to do was have my p-doc fax my tax return to AstraZeneca.

Yesterday was pretty mellow. Maybe they are working. I'm giving it time. We'll see how this week goes. I felt sad yesterday appropriately, I think.
As far as free meds. I didn't know, but far as meds go everything I've looked into before won't work if you've got insurance. I'll check it out though. Thanks.

I do the movie/lyric thing all the time. And I also have to sing or quote it out loud to feel 'complete'. I've not heard of 'pressurized speech' before - and I didn't realize this might be related to the bipolar. When I was a little kid, my parents thought it was really funny & fascinating - it seemed to me at the time just like I had a really good memory. I didn't realize it was all that unusual, though.

I do lose track of conversations sometimes, though, when my brain rattles through the scene or song that is prompted instead of paying attention to the next part of the what's actually being said around me.

My husband and I communicate often through 80's movies and sir fled quotes. It's our secret language.

I hope they're working. Of course, even when meds are working there are still days that are better and days that are worse.

Hmm...yeah...if you have insurance you might not be eligible. Still, it's worth checking into.

If I understand you question correctly, you are asking if everyday conversion can trigger a memory of a song lyric or movie phrase? I would say yes, this happens to me often -- with music (not so much with movies...). I will often then (in the appropriate, and sometimes inappropriate settings) sing the words said to the tune it brought up...the words don't even have to match exactly....even if they are close (and that's a subjective decision) I will relate them and sing them.