[NoSignal]

Thoughts always circulate through my brain, there's never a moment i'm not thinking about something. And it's never one thing, it's several things at a time where I can't seem to grab onto any one thought. It's not a manic type thing, i'm not elated or euphoric, it's just a bunch of thoughts going in and out of my head. Sometimes the circulating thoughts are just one line of words, say, a verse from a song. I'll wake up with the same line repeating in my head for two or three hours. Other times it's just a random few words that, once again, repeat for a few hours. I tap out patterns a lot with my hands--that won't usually go on for hours. there's just so much going on in my head I swear it's going to burst! I know i'm an anxious person, I have been since I was in pre-school, they put me in counseling in kindergarten for it. So it's no surprise all these experiences get worse when I'm in an anxious situation or know i'm going to have to deal with an anxious situation soon. Then the repetitiveness gets louder. Whatever. Anyone else deal with this?

[ensconce]

Yea theres always a bunch of stuff in my head that repeats. Its called looping actually. Some forms of looping if I remember correctly are very common among normal people such as lyrics repeating in your head others not so much.

[avlady]

i get songs stuck in my head, but i also hear words and sentences that seem to not stop. i'm medicated, don't know if that has anything to do with it.

[cheatingdeath]

I experience something like what your describing, my mind is constantly processing many trains of thought. I actually see five lines of thought constantly flowing and moving off. Each line has to do with a different subject and it never stops. I compare it to what I call the New York Stock Exchange Leader Board when describing it to someone. Sometimes when I'm in a conversation with someone I have to really concentrate so that if they ask me a question I don't answer from the wrong line in my mind. This has been the norm for me since I was a little girl. It's always on even when I feel or felt perfectly fine. I also suffer from chronic insomnia and when I haven't slept for at least 4 days I experience auditory hallucinations. This is when I hear music and it is the same song or group of songs over and over, this does get on my nerves quite a bit but it does go away as soon as I finally get some sleep and that is usually around the 4th or 5th day without sleep. There have only been two times I reached 8 days without sleep and that's when the real "fun" begins...visual hallucinations. As for the constant train of thoughts, I've just learned to live with it, doesn't really bother me but the repetitive music thing, that's a bit unnerving. I wish I had a solution or could suggest a medication but nothing unfortunately has worked for me. I'm very drug tolerant.

I wish you luck and hope you can find something to help you with this!

[*Laurie*]

Yes! I have at least 30 different things going on in my mind all at the same time, all of the time. Sometimes meditation (watching my breathing, just noticing but not attaching to, my monkey-mind) helps. Seems like meds used to do more to calm my mind than they do now.

[Georgia Bridge]

VOICES, I HEAR VOICES! I think that's some song's lyrics. I think it's kinda funny when they're singing a song and then suddenly can't remember what lyrics come next and start to confer about it. Then I get all caught up in it too, trying to remember what song they're talking about, who the artist/artists is/are, etc. I get all panicky when my thoughts are derailed from the subject of a conversation I'm in with other people too. Not all that often are the multitude of thoughts and voices that pleasant... Migraine causing.

[snickie]

Sometimes I'll hear fragments of a song and I'll be able to place the name of the band and what type of song it is (full vs instrumental, medley, transcription, etc. for example) but not the song name. And I'll get to a point where I consciously realize that the song is going through my head. Then that part of the song will start looping in my mind and even though it just played through my head I won't be able to fully recall exactly how I got to that point in the music, and it drives me nuts. (A TSO song as of late, pretty sure it starts in C and some point it modulates into F major and then ends in F minor, and since I can't recall the beginning, I'll have to go through up to an hour's worth of music to figure it out.)
Or I'll have a rough idea of how it progresses and I'll let it loop and then suddenly I'm back to a part where I've already looped and I'm like, "Wasn't there supposed to be something else here that led me to this?" (Third movement of the Pines of Rome right here.)

[Fallen _Angel]

I can totally relate to you. i feel like my mind never shuts off. When i do sleep, i dream every single night and remember it in great detail. during the coarse of my day, i cannot have a solid conversation because im trying to sift through my reading their body language, what they are thinking, what im going to say then what might be their outcomes. ughh. its horrible. i could be sitting at my desk and i start down the road of loosing myself in thought and truthfully dont even remember what i was thinking about.

I am going to follow this thread because i can totally relate and can use some positive ideas on coping!

I totally relate and experience it, too. The lyrics in my head I get ALOT...often songs I don't even like and are decades old. lol

Hang in there

yes!! this is me, and it'll be the most meaningless string of words imaginable sometimes. like i specifically remember the first time i noticed it happening my brain kept repeating "hannibal lecter" over and over on and off for days. i was 13, i'd never even seen silence of the lambs!