Comments on: Musical Torment https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-73264 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:50:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-73264 I am returned.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-73105 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:01:44 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-73105 It doesn’t happen anymore, unfortunately. In my 20s and 30s, I used to hear new symphonies in my head as I was falling asleep.

As far as I know, I did not and do not have schizophrenia.

]]> By: nainsi https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-39484 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:12:42 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-39484

frenchsnake said: “Now this is interesting. I’m 18 and mildly schizophrenic, and I can usually hear some kind of music. To get it out of my head, I usually sing along, because it’s better when I can control it. The music thing happens to me in spurts: nonstop for a few days or weeks, then some silence. For some reason, my most common musical hallicunation is faint bagpipe music.”

I just started hearing bagpipe music a few days ago and I thought someone must be playing it inside my apartment building, or outside. I looked out the windows, I checked the stairway, and there was no bagpipe music. Then I realized that I heard it in every room and I thought it must be the heating system or the electrical system. I finally realized it is in my head when I put my hands over my ears. It plays the tune of Amazing Grace over and over again. Now I’m Irish and I love bagpipe music, but this is driving me crazy!

]]> By: Madonna1 https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-27226 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:48:57 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-27226 Iv’e had music halluinations for about 2 months, abrupt onset. I am going out of my mind. Most of these posts are 6 years old, isn’t there any new reasearch or treatment theories? It’s usually the last song I heard, or just a general beat over and over, so strong that I am uttering them out loud. It can be the ice cream truck that just went by, songs from random past and present. I had an MRI yesterday and an EEG set up for next week. Maybe I’ll get some answers. But the neurologist said if he dosen’t find anything he cant help me. I am damned if they do or don’t. Any new doctors researching this? Help from anyone would be appreciated. The only psychiatric problem I have is depression, and I read about 2 other people who have fibromyalgia, which I also have. Hope somebody out there is going to read this and respond. I can’t live this way, thanks.

]]> By: thekenemy https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-26462 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:22:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-26462 I am so going to get this when I’m old, and it’s so going to be Creedence over and over…

]]> By: songstress https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-24077 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:41:26 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-24077 addendum: I almost forgot; there has also been Elvis Presley singing I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You, as well as I’d Like to Teach the World To Sing. I am a young middle age -get this- human service master’s level professional. I have consulted several doctors, had various tests including cat scans and MRI’s, and have been told there are no apparent problems. I think I am relatively sane and rational, but after my first internal Michael Jackson solo I thought I was bonkers. I believe that these things happen when under great stress and I have also been told that these could be a form of tinnitis. Auditory problems run in my family. I also have been prescribed amitryptiline for pain control as I suffer from fibromyalgia. I also have attention deficit disorder. Whether all these things inter-relate I am not sure.What helps me when I start hearing something I don’t like is to put on classical music or something soothing like Yanni or Enya. Hope this helps someone else!

]]> By: songstress https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-24074 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:33:32 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-24074 the first song was Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone. HATE THAT SONG!
Since then, it has been America the Beautiful, One More Night by Phil Collins, Jet by Paul McCartney, assorted Christmas carols, the Beach Boys and more. As I write this, I am being entertained by a choir of male voices who are chanting oh my lord. After reading previous posts, I better not get stuck with come on Eileen. The other one that keeps me awake is that song I can see clearly now the rain has gone!@

]]> By: TS_Curious https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-23869 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:17:28 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-23869 I was thinking while reading this that it sounded very similar to Bonnet’s halucinations. Looked it up on Google and I was correct they are sorta related. Your mind will tend to “fill in” stimulus that is deprived of in some situations. AMAZING

]]> By: Correct me if I'm wrong, but: https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-23227 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:50:27 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-23227 [quote]nutritionalalchemist said: “must be the Canadians fault……

come on eileen?….how the the chicken dance?”[/quote]

BLAST! How did you catch on to our neferious scheme?!

]]> By: weasel https://www.damninteresting.com/musical-torment/#comment-21617 Tue, 27 May 2008 05:57:17 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=508#comment-21617 There’s also a slow, distant, ethereal and definitely creepy quality to the music. Lots of minor chords. Maybe an exorcist rather than a neurologist is called for. And 50’s night was a drag – Barbara Ann, Let’s Twist Again. Oh, the horror.

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