I started listening to music when I was 5 years old. I was exposed to it and ever since then I've been enjoying it. I would listen to it everyday until one day when i started to hear it in my head and I began to think am I hallucinating, or do songs get stuck in your head sometimes? I didn't know what to do, so I got scared and then I saw an audiologist and she told me that everything was fine except I had a little infection in both my ears. Then I began to feel a little bit relieved. Has this ever happened to you, when you feel like something's wrong with you when it's all quiet out there but internally you hear music playing in your head?

[bluecupcake]

Once when I was a young teen, while I was waking up from a dream I started to have this auditory hallucination of this macabre classical piano piece I've never heard before. It freaked me out. I was half in sleep and half out. But it scared me because I couldn't make it stop for like 3 minutes. It never happened again.

I used to listen to a lot of music when I was younger and I would play songs I liked over and over again. And when I wasn't listening to my favorite song at the moment, I would sing or hum it to myself, either out loud or silently in my head. The current term for this phenomenon is an "ear worm."

But I don't listen to music anymore very often. I was first exposed to music probably in my first few days of life. My father was a weekend musician and had a band.

[growlithing]

Hahaha more like do I ever not have music playing in my head. I am in college studying music to become an orchestral musician and a freelance musician as well. Ever since I was 11 years old, I have had music perpetually stuck in my head. It keeps me alive v

Originally Posted by bluecupcake

Once when I was a young teen, while I was waking up from a dream I started to have this auditory hallucination of this macabre classical piano piece I've never heard before. It freaked me out. I was half in sleep and half out. But it scared me because I couldn't make it stop for like 3 minutes. It never happened again.

I used to listen to a lot of music when I was younger and I would play songs I liked over and over again. And when I wasn't listening to my favorite song at the moment, I would sing or hum it to myself, either out loud or silently in my head. The current term for this phenomenon is an "ear worm."

But I don't listen to music anymore very often. I was first exposed to music probably in my first few days of life. My father was a weekend musician and had a band.

A band? Was it a famous one? That's so cool.

Originally Posted by growlithing

Hahaha more like do I ever not have music playing in my head. I am in college studying music to become an orchestral musician and a freelance musician as well. Ever since I was 11 years old, I have had music perpetually stuck in my head. It keeps me alive v

I just hate this. This is so weird. I wish I could just stop the phonograph or whatever that's playing. sometimes it just comes and goes. Because I've listened to sad music so much, it's basically ingrained in my head. I want it out now.

[growlithing]

Just listen to really catchy upbeat music. I love my constant mental radio.

Originally Posted by growlithing

Just listen to really catchy upbeat music. I love my constant mental radio.

I wish my mental radio was always off. I wish music would only be heard when I play it externally, not internally. What causes this? Does anyone know?

[THE16THDOCTOR]

8 or 9 my moms bob Dylan tapes. Then guns n roses right after.

[RedBarchetta]

Used to get that - not so much anymore...
But I really CAN NOT listen to music the way I use to..I have basically no hearing left in the right side - however (this is like a cruel joke if you ask me) it will pick up a something...This IS a problem - due to something called "Recruitment" (hairs inside the ear responsible for sending a set of tones to the brain dies, and that set of tones get assigned to a different hair) once I actually hear anything at all out of it, it's too LOUD to stand!

I've been exposed to music for as long as I can remember. I don't really seem to have a problem with my 'mental radio' though.

I do, however, have a constant beep in my ears that is quite annoying at times.

[healingme4me]

I've listened to music all my life. I do get songs, tunes, 'notes' stuck in my head. I embrace it, as a positive. My maternal family is musically talented and it just is. My kids are usually humming or singing. I sometimes hum to focus, and destress...

[bluewings]

Hmmm I would have to say I was born to music, from the guitar parties my parents had, to gospel and hymns at church from my grandparents. I am also Maori decent and our Waiata (songs) are a huge part of my culture

[LiteraryLark]

I have always listened to music. I never listened to kiddie music, I listened to the Blues Brothers, Tom Petty, 80s hair bands, classic rock, and I became fond of the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack way before I even knew what it was.

[Fluttrbye]

My first conscious memory of music was when I was about 5 or so, ridin' in the car with my dad. I remember hearin' Anne Murray's "Snow Bird". Then hearin' classical music when he would change the station.

As far back as I can remember...my mother played a lot of current stuff for the times, and my father always had on classical or jazz (when he was home from work).

[spondiferous]

We were raised with music. Music was a constant in our household, one of the only things that brought us together. Most of us played at least one instrument at one time or another.

Originally Posted by Rose Panachée

As far back as I can remember...my mother played a lot of current stuff for the times, and my father always had on classical or jazz (when he was home from work).

ooh, jazz. I wonder what happened to the jazz age. I wish I could listen to jazz. I personally find music from the past to have better quality than that of the modern era.

Originally Posted by spondiferous

We were raised with music. Music was a constant in our household, one of the only things that brought us together. Most of us played at least one instrument at one time or another.

I wanted to play the guitar and the piano, but since I couldn't afford one, I don't know what I could do in my spare time. I want to play the guitar, though.

[bshaffer836]

At age 3 to 4 because my dad was crazy and loved blasting it.

[Nicks_Nose]

My mom's family was very musical and even as babies, we were exposed to lots of music in thee home along with dancing and singing. All of our relatives encourage music even just listening, from infancy onward.

[greentires4me]

when I still was in the womb I figure

I'm with greentires. Pre-born, I think. My father was a guitarist, and so was at least one of his brothers. The house was always full of music, either him playing, or the country music on the radio or TV. Most early childhood memories are not pleasant, but the music is.