Does your brain think it is a record player / jukebox / i-pod??

Question

Sounds odd, I know, but mine does. Do you know what I mean? It's hard to explain but I'll give it a go.

When I get a song stuck in my head (every damn day), it goes on loop, repeatedly, and drives me nuts. Even if I haven't heard that particular song for years, it still plays perfectly in my head... including loads of little details that I don't always hear when I listen to the song itself, tings like overdubs, riffs and chords, harmonies... everything.

Does anyone know what I'm banging on about? Do you get this too?

Ivri Anokhi: LOL! Thanks for the words of wisdom, but as this isn't philsophical, they're irrelevant. The main question is in big bold letters at the top of the post, smarty pants!

Answer 1

Oh, yeah, I get that often. For some reason, some riff or rhythm will set me off and =BAM= it loops in my brain for hours. And, unfortunately, it is as often as not a song I can't stand ("You spin me right round baby round round like a record baby right round round round....damn! I HATE Dead or Alive!!!).

Ultimate irony? A 4GB IPod Nano can skip to your favorite song instantly and play it as much as you like. Your bajillion terabyte brain gets stuck on the *one* song that drives you so insane you find you want to drive off a cliff at 100 miles an hour just so it will stop.

Answer 2

The human brain is the most advanced recorder of all. It picks up every sight and sound and stores it away.

Your problem is probably caused by a stuck record. Try another tune so that it over rides the one still playing. Worst that will happen is you'll then be stuck with the new tune. Keep doing this until you've played a couple of hundred tunes in your head. Throw away your iPod. Simply play back your fave tunes.

Never under estimate the human brains ability to store and play back. Try to control it. There's got to be an off switch somewhere.

Answer 3

I hate to be a copycat, but the person named Question hit my answer pretty much on theJukeboxhead. A timeline of events of whatever song during the history of my lifetime is up there. It's like a musical rush of pictures. Particular songs can do this to the point of pinpointing exactly to the nanosecond of time, what I was doing,feeling, where I was at, the smells, what clothes I was wearing... that kind of thing. And of course there's the usual earworm that gets stuck in there and won't get out. Whereby I must replace it with a new song by singing anything to replace the selection running through my jukeboxhead at the time. .......B-17 is a good record.

We are all freaks and weirdos I tell you!

Answer 4

I actually think my brain is some kind of giant archive facility full of cardboard boxes. I can burn files when I want to (like all of my maths and physics at school - gone in the bin). Mind you I have archives boxes of lyrics for every song I've ever heard stacked up in there. I can hear a song I haven't heard in 20 years and still know all the words perfectly. Can't remember a single thing about Cosine or Tangent though.....

Answer 5

I have exactly the same thing. Part of my job consists of making backing tracks for my live shows and what you have is a gift, not a curse. I employ this when I don't have a copy of the original song as reference, for example, I re-recorded a brand new version of Men At Work's 'Down Under' purely based on memory from when it was continually played on the radio in 1983, including backing vocal harmonies, drum pattern, flute riff, bass line, the lot. Very useful!

Answer 6

Yes, and the hard part is that the song finds its way through the speakers (my mouth) and, while I'm doing various things, it's being elaborated to a distorion of the original piece. The worse is that, when I get a song which I don't like at all stuck in my mind, I cannot replace it with another or stop it, no matter how hard I try.
Anyway, I accept my mind as it is, because it could be a lot more worse!

Answer 7

And I thought it was just me.
My brain plays tunes all the time and I seem to remember key events with the music of that time. Some tunes remind me of places people or other items or things including things such as smell taste and feelings.

If there was some way to record all these things from my brain into a computer I think I would, I bet a psychologist would have a field day with me.

Answer 8

Similar.

My brain is most similar to an Ipod, it flicks from tune to tune in a highly irritating way. I often wake up in the morning with the most crap song in my head - then I'll consciously change it and end up singing some other crap song (and so on and so on throughout the day...)

It is far more irritating when you get an advert melody stuck in your head. Oh my god, I had the frosties ad stuck in my head the other day and I actually seriously wanted to kill myself. (you know the one, with the irritating little boy smugly singing 'they're gonna taste gre-at, they're gonna taste gre'at... I can hear the sound of frosties hittin' ma plate...)

ARGH! I've got it in my head again!!!

Answer 9

OMG yes!! im not alone lol!
I actually have bad habit were i think of songs to like most things said to me!
for example one time we were at this place and we thougth our lift left and my friend said "r we stranded" so before i could think i was singing "stranded at the drive in branded a fool" u know from grease?
My brain definately is wired that way! At the minute i have Holding out for hero bonnie tyler lol in my head!
i feel your pain friend but embrace the gift!!

Answer 10

Oh yea!!!! I even hear the song on the exact same pitch. I hear a chord or rythm that is in another song and it gets stuck in my head for days. I think it means that yu have a feel for music-a ear for music. I studdy music and i think that's why. It's amazing how complex your brain is hey?