[Icare dixit]

Can you hallucinate music, a choir say, that you hadn't heard before?

Have you ever heard music that wasn't there? If so, what kind of music?

a couple of times, I have heard off in the distance the music you get on those children's wind up toys (you know what I mean)

but it is very rare and actually not so much a bad thing (i'm not scared by it)

just confused

Can you provide more information? Under what conditions or triggers does this happen?

Is hearing something coinciding with other senses? For example, are you hearing this while touching something? Hearing this when you see a particular colour?

I ask because what comes to mind is synethesia it is a condition whereby an individual has more than one sensory response. For example, some people 'hear' tastes. Some people might 'hear' color. Some people might 'see' sounds. I have a friend who 'sees' taste. For him, taste has colour. He says it as though he were looking through coloured glasses when he eats.

Does any of this sound familiar?

[usehername]

I used to hear the ice cream truck music at hours it most definitely was not playing. Like 3am. And there was one time I heard the prettiest song I think I've ever heard. The whole time I was wishing I could get it down on paper, but I don't know how to do that.

IDK if this counts, but one time when I was mixed, I heard an iPhone jingle/ringtone for 40 minutes straight. I heard it only in my left ear, which was super weird. And the thing is, I'm the only one in my house with an iPhone, and my iPhone battery had died long before I heard the jingle, so it def wasn't my iPhone.

I also heard some techno music in the same mixed episode, but I don't know if I've heard it before or not. It's totally possible I'd heard it before and forgotten about it.

This reminds me of the concept of seeing people in your dreams whom you've "never seen before". You've actually seen them before and your subconscious remembers them, but your conscious does not. So I wonder if the music "that you've never heard before" is actually something you've heard before, but only your subconscious remembers it.

Originally Posted by usehername

I used to hear the ice cream truck music at hours it most definitely was not playing. Like 3am. And there was one time I heard the prettiest song I think I've ever heard. The whole time I was wishing I could get it down on paper, but I don't know how to do that.

ooo that reminds me

I once heard a song, "30 days", like a really rocky song, and I even ended up tapping my feet to it

no record of it anywhere

their is no record of a song called 30 days sang by a sweedish rock band

but I heard it as clear as day

[usehername]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

IDK if this counts, but one time when I was mixed, I heard an iPhone jingle/ringtone for 40 minutes straight. I heard it only in my left ear, which was super weird. And the thing is, I'm the only one in my house with an iPhone, and my iPhone battery had died long before I heard the jingle, so it def wasn't my iPhone.

I also heard some techno music in the same mixed episode, but I don't know if I've heard it before or not. It's totally possible I'd heard it before and forgotten about it.

This reminds me of the concept of seeing people in your dreams whom you've "never seen before". You've actually seen them before and your subconscious remembers them, but your conscious does not. So I wonder if the music "that you've never heard before" is actually something you've heard before, but only your subconscious remembers it.

Yeah I'd say that counts. My daughter gets that, especially with certain noises, often right after she hears them. She says they repeat for hours after she hears them.

That's really interesting... mine was some classical style song... I really don't know.

[usehername]

Originally Posted by shattered sanity

ooo that reminds me

I once heard a song, "30 days", like a really rocky song, and I even ended up tapping my feet to it

no record of it anywhere

their is no record of a song called 30 days sang by a sweedish rock band

I think I remember hearing of a famous musician from a really long time ago getting many of his song ideas this way... I wish I could remember who?

[xRavenx]

Yes, this happens to me, sometimes during the day, and very often at night. I hear melodies and lyrics that are made up, but someone is singing them in my head. It isn't a bad thing, although it can be distressing when I'm already in a certain type of manic episode where everything is getting me agitated and my senses are heightened. During euphoric mania, I enjoy it though.

I hear jazz, rock, classical...now consistent genre. Sometimes just vocals without any background instruments. It doesn't bother me lately. Occasionally I won't hear vocals, but just melodies. I somewhere read this is also more common in people without BP/mental health conditions than one might think.

[Moose72]

Yes. Once it was jazz music clear as day. Another time it was a marching band. The last time was muzak in a waiting room (but the system was broken).

[ComfortablyNumb5]

If I go a few days on very little sleep I hear cell phone ringing sounds. One night at 4am I woke my bf up and told him to answer his phone when the ringer was off. I hear it in the condo halls too. Drives me up a wall.

[HALLIEBETH87]

The first hallucination I remember having was hearing rag time music playing in the other room....it wasn't there.

I'm not sure about music I haven't heard before but during my first psychosis I remember hearing violin music that wasn't there.

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by justafriend306

Can you provide more information? Under what conditions or triggers does this happen?

Is hearing something coinciding with other senses? For example, are you hearing this while touching something? Hearing this when you see a particular colour?

I ask because what comes to mind is synethesia it is a condition whereby an individual has more than one sensory response. For example, some people 'hear' tastes. Some people might 'hear' color. Some people might 'see' sounds. I have a friend who 'sees' taste. For him, taste has colour. He says it as though he were looking through coloured glasses when he eats.

Does any of this sound familiar?

No, it's (certainly) not that. It's interesting how that may relate to psychosis though.

A composer who might have experienced this and at least had inspiration verging on it was Beethoven. Best composer ever, probably/arguably.

[Icare dixit]

The choir music wasn't melodic. I wouldn't be able to transcribe it. It sounded like a waterfall, a cascade of high-pitched singing; just notes, no words. Like angels.

It sounds like heaven.

[Wander]

When under great stress or very unwell, a couple of times I have heard the most amazing music. There are instruments I cannot describe and vocals not singing in english. I look everywhere for the source of the sound and cannot find it. It sounds like it is coming from everywhere. It is usually when I am alone. It does unsettle me but the sounds are beautiful. It tends to last only 10 minutes or so.

[winter4me]

I used to hear music.
Sometimes, I miss it...

[greylove]

I used to hear "America the Beautiful" continuously for months. Also, it's not music but I found myself talking on a phone that hadn't rung. That was weird.

[BipolaRNurse]

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

Can you hallucinate music, a choir say, that you hadn't heard before?

Have you ever heard music that wasn't there? If so, what kind of music?

Mine is classical music that has never been composed. I don't know how I know that but I'm sure of it. Weird, huh?

[BipolaRNurse]

Originally Posted by justafriend306

I ask because what comes to mind is synethesia it is a condition whereby an individual has more than one sensory response. For example, some people 'hear' tastes. Some people might 'hear' color. Some people might 'see' sounds. I have a friend who 'sees' taste. For him, taste has colour. He says it as though he were looking through coloured glasses when he eats.

Does any of this sound familiar?

I am a synesthete. I can "taste" words and colors, and I see letters and numbers in colors. I've been like this as far back as I can remember, and I didn't even know there was a word for it until I was in my forties. I just thought everybody had this, but when I talked about it people would look at me weird so I shut up.

[MtnTime2896]

Routinely. That actually forms a lot of composition for me while writing.

[usehername]

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

No, it's (certainly) not that. It's interesting how that may relate to psychosis though.

A composer who might have experienced this and at least had inspiration verging on it was Beethoven. Best composer ever, probably/arguably.

Yes! I think that's what I heard! Thank you.

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse

Mine is classical music that has never been composed. I don't know how I know that but I'm sure of it. Weird, huh?

It is weird, but I like classical music and choirs. I don't think that's coincidental, but it might be.

As to Beethoven: his Ode to Joy could just as well have been called Ode to Mania.

I had 1 of these yesterday.

I heard jazz music and people clapping their hands on 1 of those little tvs you might see in a hospital waiting room

uggg

and the jazz music was so annoying, not just because I hate jazz, but because it seemed so familiar