Have you ever experienced the phenonemon where you have a song stuck in your head? How does this happen? And how can we hear the songs if they aren't really playing?
2006-12-14 07:23:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
What I really want to know is, WHY does this phenomenon happen? What factors are at work when songs are going through our heads?
2006-12-14 12:11:40 · update #1
Earworm, a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a song stuck in one's head, particularly an annoying one. Use of the English translation was popularised by James Kellaris, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati. His studies appeared to demonstrate that different people have varying susceptibilities to earworms, but that almost everybody has been afflicted with one at some time or another.
Some sufferers from earworm prefer the term "repetunitis", "stuck tune syndrome", "sound virus" or, if sufficiently acute, "melodymania."
Medications that are used to treat Obsessive-compulsive disorder or anxiety can alleviate the symptoms of earworms.[1]
2006-12-14 07:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Mom of Three 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This drives me nuts, too. Everything we've ever heard, seen, etc. is stuck up there, and I think just a synapse misfires and brings the memory back to us. From then on, we can't get rid of it for a while. My husband doesn't help, either. When it happens to me and I make the mistake of telling him, he will sing a snatch of another song he knows I can't stand, trying to put THAT in my head, especially, "Have you heard the story of the chain saw juggler--he was found with his arms by his side!"
2006-12-14 07:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it happens to me quite often. It is mostly songs that cause me to remember a happy event in my life.
Or...
It is a stupid song I heard on television and it just wont go away!!!!!
2006-12-14 07:34:40 · answer #3 · answered by â¤??? ?å???? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it happens more when you are exhausted and when it is repetitive. My daughter likes nursery rhymes and my husband and I both find once she has gone to bed, her music(rhymes) are stuck in our heads. It drives us crazy sometimes!
2006-12-14 07:48:26 · answer #4 · answered by M N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
our minds air a misterius thing. if i knoed the anser i wood quit singing "That'll Be the Day", by Buddy Holly
2006-12-14 07:29:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋