A song stuck in your head?

[FeatsofClay]

Is there a word for that? Can it be a condition?

I have been waking up every morning for the past month or so with a song in my head. Frequently it is songs I don't even care for. And it stays with me for 4-6 hours.

Wednesday- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-AanPHMbC4

Thursday- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn3iybtxNZw

Friday- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpwTsdIi5jM

Saturday- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfU-ZhWwGU

Sunday- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeQpeX8QtY

Today- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbMYwuAHK_4

The sheets are not off me yet and these songs are steamrolling through my head. I feel like the motion of the music is what makes me walk, like the tune and the action go together. I "hear" them during every conversational lull and seem to concentrate better when I mumble them along.

Anyone ever been through this?

[Varaj]

It is called an Ear Worm. I don't get them either and use that to taunt people that do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

[Cat of Ulthar]

The last couple of days I had the same theme tune in my head: Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Women interchanging with Alice Cooper's Be My Lover, which has the same pace.

It's really getting on my nerves.

[Ink Bleeder]

I've had this constantly at least since I was a teenager, and maybe before. There's always a song playing in my head. I'm actually more freaked out about the possibility of it stopping than of having it in the first place.
Sometimes it's a musical phrase or lyric that repeats over and over; sometimes the songs are LOUD. Once in a while it's a song I hate, or something inappropriate for trying to sleep - but by and large, I like it. It's an internal soundtrack.

[Cat of Ulthar]

Does anyone *not* have this? I thought it was pretty much something that went on for everyone for all the time...

[Lady Fury]

Does anyone *not* have this? I thought it was pretty much something that went on for everyone for all the time...

I think everyone gets it. Even my kids tell me about songs they have stuck in their heads.

[Varaj]

Does anyone *not* have this? I thought it was pretty much something that went on for everyone for all the time...

I don't get it, Xavier doesn't get it. I believe one study suggested about 5% of the population doesn't experience it. So not that uncommon for somebody to not get ear worms.

[Pigs in Space]

I have this continually.

For some reason it's been "smoke on the water" for like a week now.


I'm kind of sick of it. I should listen to something else to pick up a new one.

[Harry]

Duhhhhhn, duhn duhn duhhhhn duhhhn, da da da da da dahhhh......

Duhhhhhn, duhn duhn duhhhhn duhhhn, da da da da da dahhhh......

Duhhhhhn, duhn duhn duhhhhn duhhhn, da da da da da dahhhh......

Duhhhhhn, duhn duhn duhhhhn duhhhn, da da da da da dahhhh......

[Teve]

I don't get them often.. very rarely in fact, perhaps because the voices I hear keep them out. But an occasional "the internet is for porn" will find it's self embedded in my head, and when it does it usually causes me to sing along, at the most inapropriate times.
Maybe it's good that this does not happen often.

[Black Angel]

I pretty much have this continually also. I quite enjoy it. I like music, even if it's a song I don't like, it's still interesting.

[Xavier Lang]

I don't get it, Xavier doesn't get it. I believe one study suggested about 5% of the population doesn't experience it. So not that uncommon for somebody to not get ear worms.

I've always wondered what its like. I wonder how much quieter my reality is than most folks.

[Xavier Lang]

I'm not sure what to call them, but do these exist for other senses? Like fidgeting for touch or the like?

[FeatsofClay]

I'm not sure what to call them, but do these exist for other senses? Like fidgeting for touch or the like?

If I am reading between the lines right, yes. It is called compulsive masturbation.

[Xavier Lang]

If I am reading between the lines right, yes. It is called compulsive masturbation.

I meant more finger tapping because you can't get a kinesthetic motion out of your brain or the like. I wonder why only sound seems to get stuck in reoccurring loops. Do folks get the same mental images popping up day after day?