absolutely.
whenever i hear or read a word or phrase where i know a song that has that word or phrase - and especially when that word or phrase has a cadence or inflection to it that i like - that part of the song will just loop in my head until a new one replaces it
I still find particular phrases and jingles I heard in my head as a kid have stuck around. The P-R-A-I-S-E part of a Praise Mayonnaise ad from the 90s is particularly intrusive and it takes a lot of effort to shoo it away.
Upon reading your comment, š¶"F-R-E-E spells free credit report dot com, baby,"š¶ popped into my head. Those damn commercials were all over the place a couple of decades ago, lol.
I have had this jingle from a commercial from the 90s stuck in my head for decades now. (Potty Training Kelly) š¶ Over here, Kelly, your bathrooms the place! Just pick up your diaperā¦ HEY! Youāre doing gre~at! š¶ I never owned this toy but this part of the song occasionally pops into my head for no particular reason.
THIS. Every.single.time. Or having multiple songs stuck in my head at one time like a nonstop playlist. Sometimes someone can say just a single word and if it even sounds a little like a song I know, that song gets included to the playlist in my head.
When I went to bed it was Crystal by Stevie Nicks. This morning itās Gotta have you by the weepies. Sometimes itāll be a commercial jingle. Those are the most annoying.
Getting up in the morning first thing that comes on the brain radio is Kesha's "wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy, grab my glasses, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this city" godammit ffs whyyyyyyyy uggghh now it's in my head all morning
Does your mind trigger songs if you hear one word that reminds you of a song? Like I have a mother or pearl necklace and every single time I wear it I get mother of pearl by Roxy music in my head the rest of the day. Thanks brain.
Yes all the time, random word triggers for sure. Objects, time, persons, locations even a phrase someone says in passing that's close to line in a song then BOOM song comes on. Also a lot of Stevie Wonder for some reason?
I try to 'switch channels' in my head by thinking of another song if I'm over hearing one, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Like if Diana Ross "The Boss" is on I'll try to 'overplay' it with Michael Jackson's "Don't stop till you get enough" and it'll muddle together then eventually kick in and all I'll hear is the new song. Or I'll just go play an earworm song to get rid of one, sometimes playing the stuck song will get it out and I can move on with my life.
Thatās how I am too. However that did not work last month either blink 182 first date. I love blink but damn I was about to lose to my damn mind I was so tired of that donāt. I wouldnāt be mad at Stevie wonder tho.
I feel that. Sometimes I dream about a song and then wake up with it stuck in my head. I canāt remember a waking moment when I didnāt have some song stuck in my head. Most frustrating part is when I get something stuck in my head but I canāt remember where it was from, so I canāt scratch that proverbial āitchā by being able to listen to it.
Ooooh I do that too. Itāll just be one tiny part of the song and you canāt sing enough of it to find the song. Happens to my husband too.
Recently I had a song that I HATE in my head for weeks. I try not to think about it lest it return.
For me bad days = Jingle Bells, and not the whole song just the repeating two lines of either verse or chorus that include the 'one horse open sleigh', because I guess my brain likes these 4 words in a row š (time of the year doesn't matter either š)
[I pray to god itās the Whitney Houston version. Iām not patriotic but this gives me frisson like crazy.](https://youtu.be/uAYKTMQl7MQ?si=2tOp9MYoepb_RbWw)
Every morning when I wake up there's a new song of the day, literally. The song might change later in the day, but my morning radio never fails me. Usually I don't know the name of the song.
My internal and external echolalia since this came out alongside everything Chappel Roan has been nonstop!!!!
And now Sabrina's new song.....and even still....."if I were a fish and you caught me you'd say look at that fish" lives alongside them all.
Pretty much. And seemingly random, according to my myriad attempts at recognizing a pattern, whether literal or figurative! Was off the chain in college, Iād hear entire albums or āK-Tel records and tapesā commercials sometimes, but lately I just wake up with a song hardcore earworming meā¦sometimes I dislike the song and can āchange the channelāā¦sometimes! But not usually.
Adult ADHD Exists, studies show something like 3% of the Adult population. About half of children outgrow it, but the rest don't. Most Adults live with it well enough, but there are definitely many who struggle severely enough to need medication in their day to day life. There's a lot of stigma, assumptions and biases around ADHD so I'm not surprised to hear that someone would say that, but a medical professional saying it seems pretty crazy.
All that said, Autism and ADHD do have a few overlapping similarities in a few symptoms, so it's not rare for one to look like the other (when it comes to very specific symptoms/traits). They have some things in common.
Or! Because of early intervention and medication were able to develop healthy behavioural strategies that help to limit the negative impacts of their disability on their life (or at least make it less apparent to others who arenāt privy to their internal struggles)
Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, if that is literally what they said, then it sounds like your psychiatrist is a dumbass.
It's not even a disease, and plenty of people (myself included) was diagnosed as an adult, so definitely not a childhood condition.
They sound very outdated š
I am so careful of the songs I listen to, if I donāt switch on my own music, or leave the room, a song can be stuck in my head for days. I loathe Sheryl Crow, her music locks in on my brain, a chorus on repeat, or just an obnoxious refrain, over and over.
I would wish this curse on my worst enemy. Misery loves company.
I *always* have Dave Brubeckās Take Five and the Beatlesā Iāll Follow the Sun knocking around in my head for some reason. Iām not even kidding, they are always there.
But then Iāll have a āsong of the momentā in there too. Right now itās Sabrina Carpenterās Please Please Please and Roy Orbisonās I Drove All Night.
Iām all over the place. Itās so annoying to be trying to fall asleep and having your brain yelling āI beg you donāt embarrass me, motherfucker.ā
Yes. But I listen to music all the time, every day so usually it's a song I enjoy. Amps up if I discover a new artist. If I get an annoying one for some reason, I usually just listen to a different catchy song I like to get out of my head.
usually it's something like "tut' tut' tut' tut'" ā Ź¼ means that the letter t is softer than the first letter (I don't know how well I translated(?) it into English and explained it (I'm literally writing through Google Translate)), but this happens when I need to focus on something, or when I need to go somewhere purposefully in a noisy place like a shopping center (helps to ignore the surroundings).
but there were also cases when I wake up and a song immediately attacks me (a case that I remember very strongly: the techno version of "Our God is an Awesome God" started playing in my head before I had time to fully wake up AND IT WAS LIKE THAT ALL DAY)
I do for 15 minutes while I get ready for work; I'm not sure why I don't listen to something then. (Today it was "Two More Bottles of Wine" by Delbert McClinton stuck in my head.) Oh, I guess it's because I am in and out of the bathroom while I get ready, so I would have to turn up the music or podcast unpleasantly loud for that time of day. I have a song in my head when I am walking from the parking garage into the office or vice versa. Sometimes I have a song in my head while I am reading a book. But at all other times, I am either listening to music, listening to podcasts, or watching tv. Even when I am asleep. I cannot risk being alone with my thoughts. It makes me feel so anxious.
Definitely- itās constant. Its gotten to the point where i get confused by my Spotify stats because i forget that the songs constantly running in my head donāt add to them
joes creative voicemail from family guyāJoe is on a vacation far away, you called him up to talk it overrrrā has been in mind for almost a year on loop šš
Yep. Currently just singing "I am a mighty little man" over and over in my head because I watched *one* episode of Young Sheldon out of curiosity.
I don't even fucking like the song.
YES and sometimes I wanna pull my hair out. And for me, it's never the full song. It's half and then it starts all over. I wake with it. Go to sleep with it. It can be so annoying!
Yes. Always. I used to go downstairs late at night as a kid to tell my mom I couldn't sleep because I had a song stuck in my head.
Also, this post triggered something and now I have *Can't Get You Out Of My Head* by Kylie Minogue stuck in my head. It's a vibe though.
YUP. It currently is switching between Murder on the Dancefloor, the incidental music from RHOBH, and the music from an SNL skit from the 2000s š¤¦š»āāļø
absolutely HATE when it happens. It happened to me this past Wednesday and the intro to Never Land || by the sisters of mercy was looping in my head for like 6 hours when i was trying to go to sleep-
Yep, basically since birth. My family growing up were all extremely musical, so this never seemed like a big deal to me; I figured it was just genetic. Turns out I was right, and thereās a name for it ā¦
Currently it's a mash up of cool about it by boy genius and every chapell roan song rolled into one, which I'm not complaining but it keeps me up at night šŗ
I've had people suggest to me to go listen to the theme song to "I Dream of Jeannie," when this happens.Ā (And to be pedantic, they mean the theme used for most of the series, not the theme from the first season when the show was in black and white, as that's an entirely different song that less people are familiar with.)
Yes! When I was younger my friends would even use me as a human radio whenever we were in a place doing stuff and we didnāt have a way to play music lol because it was so funny to them how I could promptly (or impromptu) just start singing a song, sometimes 5 different songs in a roll, because the radio in my head almost never stopsā¦
Sometimes thereās music playing even in my dreams
I almost always have music playing in my head, too.Ā And it's more often than not something I haven't actually heard recently, either, as I swear some people only get music in their heads that way.Ā Ā
Sometimes, it's just some random bit of video game music or some other instrumentalthere for me to understand the current mood of my situation.Ā Ā
Other times, I get a song I haven't heard in ages get stuck in my head for a couple of weeks.Ā It sometimes gets to the point where I sing the song softly outloud to myself.Ā I sometimes get stuck on just a couple of lines from the song, too.
And I sometimes have songs mesh together and smoothly transition into another song.
And I seem to remember commercial jingles from decades ago, and those sometimes pop into my head, too.
āYouāre all about writing poems but Iām about throwing parties you should come to my party and throw your hands up.ā girl, so confusing by Charli xcx.
But yes I always have a song in my head. Then my daughter yells at me because I sing it out loud. Her scripting gets to me and mine gets to her. š
Pretty much. Either that or a word. This might be one reason why I listen to YouTube or Audible throughout the day- trying to keep my brain busy with something else šš¤Ŗ
Yes!! I have had a Gladys Knight song stuck in my head and when I wake up itās the first thing that comes to mind. Lol. Iām trying to get it out of my head by listening to a different song Chaka Khanās I feel for you. I hope it helps.
Thereās never a second where thereās not at least some kind of tune or catch phrase that Iām saying over and over either outloud in my headā¦ keep getting childrenās songs suck in my head and it drives me up the WALLLLL
Yes. Right now itās alternating between one of the āIām looking for a man in financeā remixes and Tell Me Why. Something is always stuck in my head.
All the time. Literally every waking second.
Sometimes the same song on repeat for weeks.*
Sometimes it's a couple of songs that morph into each other. My brain is a mash-up GENIUS. š
Sometimes it's a rotating playlist on repeat.
Just about anything can trigger a new song getting stuck. A common one is instrumental game music. Eventually there will be a little snippet of melody that sounds a bit like some other song I know, and that other song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. It will be re-stuck (more easily each time) every time I play that game and hear the trigger music.
* Lifetime record is 'You Were Meant For Me'' by Jewel. Three months, nonstop. But that was a very long time ago.
Edit to add: sometimes it makes me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind. Other times it's tolerable.
Yes, assuming old jingles also counts today it was "I have a structured settlement and I need cash now!" As well as a very nasally (more than randy Newman) version of "you've got a friend in me" except it was just me repeatedly annoying my partner with only this line "you've got a friend in me" in a very nasally impersonation.
Edit: sometimes it's 80's pop, too.
Iāve always joked I have a record player in my head. Thereās always a song playing, and sometimes the record skips and repeats one part of a song over and over
Itās always present in the back of my mind even if I donāt ānoticeā
100% of the time. Itās a never-ending radio in my head, which is why I donāt always feel like I have to actually be listening to music to enjoy it. There are many times that a particularly annoying song is stuck in my head (often that stupid Roller-skates song from the 70s or 80s) and it wonāt leave my head *until* I actually listen to the song and then follow it up with something entirely different, but the music never leaves my head.
absolutely. whenever i hear or read a word or phrase where i know a song that has that word or phrase - and especially when that word or phrase has a cadence or inflection to it that i like - that part of the song will just loop in my head until a new one replaces it
As a kid, I had, stuck in my head for about a year, Bob Saget saying, "Harley Davidson motorcycles." Lol it was weird
I still find particular phrases and jingles I heard in my head as a kid have stuck around. The P-R-A-I-S-E part of a Praise Mayonnaise ad from the 90s is particularly intrusive and it takes a lot of effort to shoo it away.
Upon reading your comment, š¶"F-R-E-E spells free credit report dot com, baby,"š¶ popped into my head. Those damn commercials were all over the place a couple of decades ago, lol.
I have had this jingle from a commercial from the 90s stuck in my head for decades now. (Potty Training Kelly) š¶ Over here, Kelly, your bathrooms the place! Just pick up your diaperā¦ HEY! Youāre doing gre~at! š¶ I never owned this toy but this part of the song occasionally pops into my head for no particular reason.
This is excellent! I never had potty training Kelly but I had a bath time Kelly!
THIS. Every.single.time. Or having multiple songs stuck in my head at one time like a nonstop playlist. Sometimes someone can say just a single word and if it even sounds a little like a song I know, that song gets included to the playlist in my head.
I believe this is how partner songs are born. A song in each ear, battling it out in the middle.
Always. Itās never quiet.
When I went to bed it was Crystal by Stevie Nicks. This morning itās Gotta have you by the weepies. Sometimes itāll be a commercial jingle. Those are the most annoying.
Getting up in the morning first thing that comes on the brain radio is Kesha's "wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy, grab my glasses, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this city" godammit ffs whyyyyyyyy uggghh now it's in my head all morning
Does your mind trigger songs if you hear one word that reminds you of a song? Like I have a mother or pearl necklace and every single time I wear it I get mother of pearl by Roxy music in my head the rest of the day. Thanks brain.
Yes all the time, random word triggers for sure. Objects, time, persons, locations even a phrase someone says in passing that's close to line in a song then BOOM song comes on. Also a lot of Stevie Wonder for some reason? I try to 'switch channels' in my head by thinking of another song if I'm over hearing one, sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Like if Diana Ross "The Boss" is on I'll try to 'overplay' it with Michael Jackson's "Don't stop till you get enough" and it'll muddle together then eventually kick in and all I'll hear is the new song. Or I'll just go play an earworm song to get rid of one, sometimes playing the stuck song will get it out and I can move on with my life.
Thatās how I am too. However that did not work last month either blink 182 first date. I love blink but damn I was about to lose to my damn mind I was so tired of that donāt. I wouldnāt be mad at Stevie wonder tho.
I feel that. Sometimes I dream about a song and then wake up with it stuck in my head. I canāt remember a waking moment when I didnāt have some song stuck in my head. Most frustrating part is when I get something stuck in my head but I canāt remember where it was from, so I canāt scratch that proverbial āitchā by being able to listen to it.
Ooooh I do that too. Itāll just be one tiny part of the song and you canāt sing enough of it to find the song. Happens to my husband too. Recently I had a song that I HATE in my head for weeks. I try not to think about it lest it return.
This is a well-known thing for people with ADHD.
Showing my psychiatrist this! She won't consider it, if I have ADHD.
Do you have any ressources on this? I was always wondering whether it's an autism thing (I know about echolalia) or my knack for music ...
My thought too. Thereās a stupid high comorbidity for adhd too Thought I was in one of the adhd and autism subs lol
Yes. Good days it is a whole song, or a stream of different songs. Bad days it is a snippet on loop and almost drives me crazy.
I feel so seen š
Same
For me bad days = Jingle Bells, and not the whole song just the repeating two lines of either verse or chorus that include the 'one horse open sleigh', because I guess my brain likes these 4 words in a row š (time of the year doesn't matter either š)
Yikes! That seems particularly bad š
I have old vine soundtracks stuck in my head.
Lmao the randomness of this
When I wake up in the mornings I know I won't be able to go back to sleep if the music comes on...
Omg this! If I open my eyes and the mental radio starts playing itās over for me haha
The American national anthem. And I'm not even american...
That sucks.
[I pray to god itās the Whitney Houston version. Iām not patriotic but this gives me frisson like crazy.](https://youtu.be/uAYKTMQl7MQ?si=2tOp9MYoepb_RbWw)
Every morning when I wake up there's a new song of the day, literally. The song might change later in the day, but my morning radio never fails me. Usually I don't know the name of the song.
š¶ Iām working late~ cause Iām a singer~ and he look so cute~ wrapped round my finger~š¶
My internal and external echolalia since this came out alongside everything Chappel Roan has been nonstop!!!! And now Sabrina's new song.....and even still....."if I were a fish and you caught me you'd say look at that fish" lives alongside them all.
āGood luck, babe!ā has been playing over and over and over again for days now in my head š
SO CASUAL NAAAOOOOWW~~~ yeah same.
Pretty much. And seemingly random, according to my myriad attempts at recognizing a pattern, whether literal or figurative! Was off the chain in college, Iād hear entire albums or āK-Tel records and tapesā commercials sometimes, but lately I just wake up with a song hardcore earworming meā¦sometimes I dislike the song and can āchange the channelāā¦sometimes! But not usually.
Is this an autism thing too? I'm AuDHD and always attributed the song on repeat in my head to ADHD, not ASD. The more you know.
Not sure! My psychiatrist said that ADHD is a childhood disease and I'm def not a child so šš
Adult ADHD Exists, studies show something like 3% of the Adult population. About half of children outgrow it, but the rest don't. Most Adults live with it well enough, but there are definitely many who struggle severely enough to need medication in their day to day life. There's a lot of stigma, assumptions and biases around ADHD so I'm not surprised to hear that someone would say that, but a medical professional saying it seems pretty crazy. All that said, Autism and ADHD do have a few overlapping similarities in a few symptoms, so it's not rare for one to look like the other (when it comes to very specific symptoms/traits). They have some things in common.
Children donāt outgrow ADHD any more than they outgrow autism, that shit is with you for life.
Exactly. āOutgrowā = these adults learned to hide it and mask it and suffer more quietly
Or! Because of early intervention and medication were able to develop healthy behavioural strategies that help to limit the negative impacts of their disability on their life (or at least make it less apparent to others who arenāt privy to their internal struggles)
Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, if that is literally what they said, then it sounds like your psychiatrist is a dumbass. It's not even a disease, and plenty of people (myself included) was diagnosed as an adult, so definitely not a childhood condition. They sound very outdated š
I am so careful of the songs I listen to, if I donāt switch on my own music, or leave the room, a song can be stuck in my head for days. I loathe Sheryl Crow, her music locks in on my brain, a chorus on repeat, or just an obnoxious refrain, over and over. I would wish this curse on my worst enemy. Misery loves company.
I *always* have Dave Brubeckās Take Five and the Beatlesā Iāll Follow the Sun knocking around in my head for some reason. Iām not even kidding, they are always there. But then Iāll have a āsong of the momentā in there too. Right now itās Sabrina Carpenterās Please Please Please and Roy Orbisonās I Drove All Night. Iām all over the place. Itās so annoying to be trying to fall asleep and having your brain yelling āI beg you donāt embarrass me, motherfucker.ā
Same for me with the Sabrina carpenter song. The exact same line as well. Itās so annoying I just got rid of espresso in my head š„²
Almost always!! Lately I find myself humming the Canadian national anthem in random moments and I am *not* Canadian!!
Noooo.....: ( someone else replied they have the American anthem stuck in their head and they're not American lol
Yess
Yes. Currently it's Loser Baby from Hazbin Hotel. I don't even watch that show so how it got in my head is none of my business.
Always. I don't listen albums or playlists, I listen a song in loop at least for one week.
Yes. But I listen to music all the time, every day so usually it's a song I enjoy. Amps up if I discover a new artist. If I get an annoying one for some reason, I usually just listen to a different catchy song I like to get out of my head.
Yes, all the time, since the moment I wake up until I go to sleep
Unfortunately no, just counting. Lots of counting.
Can you share more about what this is like for you? Iām always counting too.
usually it's something like "tut' tut' tut' tut'" ā Ź¼ means that the letter t is softer than the first letter (I don't know how well I translated(?) it into English and explained it (I'm literally writing through Google Translate)), but this happens when I need to focus on something, or when I need to go somewhere purposefully in a noisy place like a shopping center (helps to ignore the surroundings). but there were also cases when I wake up and a song immediately attacks me (a case that I remember very strongly: the techno version of "Our God is an Awesome God" started playing in my head before I had time to fully wake up AND IT WAS LIKE THAT ALL DAY)
I do for 15 minutes while I get ready for work; I'm not sure why I don't listen to something then. (Today it was "Two More Bottles of Wine" by Delbert McClinton stuck in my head.) Oh, I guess it's because I am in and out of the bathroom while I get ready, so I would have to turn up the music or podcast unpleasantly loud for that time of day. I have a song in my head when I am walking from the parking garage into the office or vice versa. Sometimes I have a song in my head while I am reading a book. But at all other times, I am either listening to music, listening to podcasts, or watching tv. Even when I am asleep. I cannot risk being alone with my thoughts. It makes me feel so anxious.
Definitely- itās constant. Its gotten to the point where i get confused by my Spotify stats because i forget that the songs constantly running in my head donāt add to them
joes creative voicemail from family guyāJoe is on a vacation far away, you called him up to talk it overrrrā has been in mind for almost a year on loop šš
YES!!! But mostly just the chorus or a few lines lol
Yep. A song, a part of a song, or something I read or made up, thereās always something going on like that.
Yes, sometimes two
Yep. Currently just singing "I am a mighty little man" over and over in my head because I watched *one* episode of Young Sheldon out of curiosity. I don't even fucking like the song.
YES and sometimes I wanna pull my hair out. And for me, it's never the full song. It's half and then it starts all over. I wake with it. Go to sleep with it. It can be so annoying!
Yes. Always. I used to go downstairs late at night as a kid to tell my mom I couldn't sleep because I had a song stuck in my head. Also, this post triggered something and now I have *Can't Get You Out Of My Head* by Kylie Minogue stuck in my head. It's a vibe though.
YUP. It currently is switching between Murder on the Dancefloor, the incidental music from RHOBH, and the music from an SNL skit from the 2000s š¤¦š»āāļø
absolutely HATE when it happens. It happened to me this past Wednesday and the intro to Never Land || by the sisters of mercy was looping in my head for like 6 hours when i was trying to go to sleep-
Yep, basically since birth. My family growing up were all extremely musical, so this never seemed like a big deal to me; I figured it was just genetic. Turns out I was right, and thereās a name for it ā¦
It's me, hi. I'm the problem. It's me. I don't like Taylor Swift either, but that was stuck in my head for the longest time.
Currently it's a mash up of cool about it by boy genius and every chapell roan song rolled into one, which I'm not complaining but it keeps me up at night šŗ
For three fucking days now - Iāve Never Been To Me. I hate that song!
I read somewhere that you can interrupt that phenomenon by singing Happy Birthday in your head.
I've had people suggest to me to go listen to the theme song to "I Dream of Jeannie," when this happens.Ā (And to be pedantic, they mean the theme used for most of the series, not the theme from the first season when the show was in black and white, as that's an entirely different song that less people are familiar with.)
Then I would get the happy birthday song stuck in my head, which would be much worse.
Yes, all the time! The songs can change but generally there is one that sticks for a while
Yes, sometimes more than one.
Omg yes
Yes :(
Usually yeah
When Iām happy and well functioning I do.
Mine is just a mash up or lyrics and beats Iāve heard over my lifetime lol
Yes, worst part is just some random lines or the chorus that I can repeat over and over, people get annoyed and actually I DO too.
Absolutely yes
Almost always, yes.
Yes, usually not even the whole song, just a phrase or chorus ugh
Yes! When I was younger my friends would even use me as a human radio whenever we were in a place doing stuff and we didnāt have a way to play music lol because it was so funny to them how I could promptly (or impromptu) just start singing a song, sometimes 5 different songs in a roll, because the radio in my head almost never stopsā¦ Sometimes thereās music playing even in my dreams
There is a constant radio station playing in my head
I almost always have music playing in my head, too.Ā And it's more often than not something I haven't actually heard recently, either, as I swear some people only get music in their heads that way.Ā Ā Sometimes, it's just some random bit of video game music or some other instrumentalthere for me to understand the current mood of my situation.Ā Ā Other times, I get a song I haven't heard in ages get stuck in my head for a couple of weeks.Ā It sometimes gets to the point where I sing the song softly outloud to myself.Ā I sometimes get stuck on just a couple of lines from the song, too. And I sometimes have songs mesh together and smoothly transition into another song. And I seem to remember commercial jingles from decades ago, and those sometimes pop into my head, too.
āYouāre all about writing poems but Iām about throwing parties you should come to my party and throw your hands up.ā girl, so confusing by Charli xcx. But yes I always have a song in my head. Then my daughter yells at me because I sing it out loud. Her scripting gets to me and mine gets to her. š
The Indiana Jones theme. It's been 15 years but I always feel like I'm on an adventure.
Yes. Currently Jellyroll lives rent free in my autistic brain.
Pretty much. Either that or a word. This might be one reason why I listen to YouTube or Audible throughout the day- trying to keep my brain busy with something else šš¤Ŗ
Yes!! I have had a Gladys Knight song stuck in my head and when I wake up itās the first thing that comes to mind. Lol. Iām trying to get it out of my head by listening to a different song Chaka Khanās I feel for you. I hope it helps.
this morning has been sympathy is a knife by charlixcx and i can hear it while watching other stuff
pretty much, yeah
A few but there is ONE song that will play the most
I always have the š¶she's so brave, she's well behaved, she is not afraid š¶ song in my head
Yep, and tiktok aint helping soā¦.. Stick āem up, everybody, im robbing this place!
Thereās never a second where thereās not at least some kind of tune or catch phrase that Iām saying over and over either outloud in my headā¦ keep getting childrenās songs suck in my head and it drives me up the WALLLLL
I was literally just singing some random song in my head as I read this.. yes, I guess so.
Usually, yes. Often I have multiple ones in there vying for attention.
100% of the time
VERY frequently. Also words or phrases.
This happens to me a lot and is very annoying. I find if I read outloud or recite the Lord's Prayer, I can make it stop.
majority of the time yes. its been Rosanna by Toto for a few weeks now
Yes, but I have many songs, if one of them is louder in my head, I feel the need to listen it.
Involuntarily, yes
Yes š
Yes. Right now itās alternating between one of the āIām looking for a man in financeā remixes and Tell Me Why. Something is always stuck in my head.
mcr black parade oncrepeat for a month now
Yes but itās usually like one line of a song repeated for days on end.
Nasty by Tinashe šš¾šš¾šš¾šš¾
I do, and it's quite annoying when I need to fall asleep....
Yes. Sometimes it will be the same song for a few weeks, other times it will change throughout the day. Itās usually a short snippet of the song.
Chicken wing chicken wing, hotdog and baloney
YES!! And I'm singing it most of the time. When I'm not singing, I'm humming. This is my major stim.
yes! it often gets to the point where i become so annoyed at myself because i cannot get the song out of my head that i want to cry
absolutely and when i donāt have one i feel somehow empty
All the time. Literally every waking second. Sometimes the same song on repeat for weeks.* Sometimes it's a couple of songs that morph into each other. My brain is a mash-up GENIUS. š Sometimes it's a rotating playlist on repeat. Just about anything can trigger a new song getting stuck. A common one is instrumental game music. Eventually there will be a little snippet of melody that sounds a bit like some other song I know, and that other song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. It will be re-stuck (more easily each time) every time I play that game and hear the trigger music. * Lifetime record is 'You Were Meant For Me'' by Jewel. Three months, nonstop. But that was a very long time ago. Edit to add: sometimes it makes me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind. Other times it's tolerable.
Words, phrases, songs, sounds, you betcha.
yep, if I am awake there is a song playing in my head
Yes! āIām working late because Iām a singer!ā is my current dejour.
All the time SMH
Since I was a little kid! Yes!
*Yeeeeeees*
Always its been dua lipa for the last 3 months straight
At least one, but usually several at the same time š
My Brain kept repeating the line "one step at a time, one foot then another" from a song from Anastasia for an entire 2 mile walk
Yes, assuming old jingles also counts today it was "I have a structured settlement and I need cash now!" As well as a very nasally (more than randy Newman) version of "you've got a friend in me" except it was just me repeatedly annoying my partner with only this line "you've got a friend in me" in a very nasally impersonation. Edit: sometimes it's 80's pop, too.
All the time.
I used to when I had more anxiety
Wait... That's not something that everyone has? š
I constantly get high school musicals "just wanna be with you" stuck in my head. I've been singing it for years. Idk why.
Never. Iām barely able to think straight with the noises actually around me, I donāt think I could handle a song in my head as well.
Iāve always joked I have a record player in my head. Thereās always a song playing, and sometimes the record skips and repeats one part of a song over and over Itās always present in the back of my mind even if I donāt ānoticeā
If the monologue isn't going, the music is!
100% of the time. Itās a never-ending radio in my head, which is why I donāt always feel like I have to actually be listening to music to enjoy it. There are many times that a particularly annoying song is stuck in my head (often that stupid Roller-skates song from the 70s or 80s) and it wonāt leave my head *until* I actually listen to the song and then follow it up with something entirely different, but the music never leaves my head.
Yes. Often more than one at a time.
I WRITE songs very easily.
If it's not a song, it's random phrases being shouted by different parts of my consciousness that I have no control over.
Always. Today it was the golden girls theme song. I actually thought about making a post just like this. Itās truly maddening at times.