Why Endless songs playing in head driving me crazy?

stahrgeyzer · Oct 03, 2023 at 08:20 PM

I've been feeling very weird past week or so. My brain keeps playing songs in my head over and over and over all day. The song changes anywhere from an hour or so to a day. Today it was a baby song, itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout. I think my dad used to sing that to me when an infant. And the past hour it's been a christian song I hadn't heard since a child, VICTORY in Jesus, my Savior forever...

Lol it's really driving me INSANE. Has anyone any idea what can cause this?

CANDC · Oct 03, 2023 at 09:15 PM

@stahrgeyzer I have no idea but I did find an article by Harvard Health Blog. They call a song in the head an earworm.

Quote:

How do you get rid of earworms?
If you’ve had enough of your earworm and need to stop it in its tracks, you would be well warned not to try to block the song out, but rather to passively accept it. A determined effort to block the song out may result in the very opposite of what you want. Called “ironic process” and studied extensively by psychologist Daniel Wegner, resisting the song may make your brain keep playing it over and over again.

Some people try to distract themselves from the song, and it works. In one study, the most helpful “cure” tunes were “God Save The Queen” by Thomas Arne and “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club. Others seek out the tune in question, because it is commonly believed that earworms occur when you remember only part of a song; hearing the entire song may extinguish it.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/...-2017100412490

stahrgeyzer · Oct 03, 2023 at 11:18 PM

@CANDC thanks. That Harvard study is pretty interesting. Maybe it's an attempt of communicate by the subconscious. I'll try to think of it that way and make sense of it.

CANDC · Oct 05, 2023 at 02:31 PM

@stahrgeyzer thought it looked worth a read. @CANDC

Violetta75 · Oct 06, 2023 at 05:26 PM

You aren't alone in this thing. I've had songs stuck for days in my head. When I was young and in hospital I thought it was a sign of me going crazy, until a nurse explained everyone gets earworms now and then. But a while back, I'd have a song in my head going to sleep, and woke up with the darn thing repeating, must have done that all night? Now that's weird. I wish you the best, hope it goes away on its own.

mote.of.soul · Oct 06, 2023 at 10:11 PM

Hey there stahrgeyzer,

Yeah, the cause of it, wow...I really have no idea. The universe perhaps? For me, that's what everything seems to boil down to. But the fact that both those songs you mentioned are stemming from your childhood might be a clue...I can only speculate.🤔

stahrgeyzer · Oct 06, 2023 at 10:12 PM

It's no fun. Right now my mind is blasting "george, george, george of the jungle! look out for that tree!" It's so weird but all I can do is try to ignore it. I wonder why they call it earworms. That sounds so creepy.

stahrgeyzer · Oct 07, 2023 at 11:17 PM

@mote.of.soul that's true a lot of songs are from childhood, it must mean something. Maybe I'll start remembering early childhood memories.

Soupe du jour · Oct 09, 2023 at 04:08 AM

Maybe not endlessly, but every day while cooking, for about two months, I hum the theme song from the old French movie "Un Homme et une Femme" (A Man and a Woman). When I know I'm going overboard I try humming "The Rose", originally sung by Bette Midler. When I think that's too often, I ask for a medley mix of other songs on my Google Nest Hub Max, but I keep going back to the two. Especially the French song.

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stahrgeyzer Magnate Member Since Feb 2018 Location: literally hell Posts: 2,357 6 5,660 hugs given	Oct 03, 2023 at 11:18 PM #3 @CANDC thanks. That Harvard study is pretty interesting. Maybe it's an attempt of communicate by the subconscious. I'll try to think of it that way and make sense of it.
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stahrgeyzer Magnate Member Since Feb 2018 Location: literally hell Posts: 2,357 6 5,660 hugs given	Oct 06, 2023 at 10:12 PM #7 It's no fun. Right now my mind is blasting "george, george, george of the jungle! look out for that tree!" It's so weird but all I can do is try to ignore it. I wonder why they call it earworms. That sounds so creepy.
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stahrgeyzer Magnate Member Since Feb 2018 Location: literally hell Posts: 2,357 6 5,660 hugs given	Oct 07, 2023 at 11:17 PM #8 @mote.of.soul that's true a lot of songs are from childhood, it must mean something. Maybe I'll start remembering early childhood memories.
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