Do Songs Ever Play Over and Over in Your Head?

[pandora]

I think this is dissacociation but just wanted to know if others experience it. I remember doing EMDR and CBT...in my mind the words of a song would play over and over and it was really hard to focus on what we were doing.

Sometimes it is a positive phrase and it is ok to repeat it..other times it is not. In experiencing a particularly stressful event yesterday and being triggered HUGE, I noticed I was having a hard time because words (and I cannot remember them now) were playing over and over in my head.

During a group therapy session...the words were from a Country singer..Taylor Swift...It went like this..".I had a good father his strength is making me stronger", played over and over... I know it sounds cheezy and I am a big cheezeball and that those words were actually soothing but it is so distracting...

I just wondered if anyone else experiences this..it makes me feel a bit nutty when it happens and I cannot stop it or it is a negative song..:crazy:

 

[Deleted member 541]

Songs, phrases, conversations, and words...Over and over and over again.....Drives me batty at times. The only good thing...It would be a very short drive!!!!!!

 

[Dylan]

Ohhhh yes.

Most of the time it's meaningless crap - like commercial jingles (the one that haunts the worst is, "Whirlpool makes a dishwasher, it won't make a mess of your permanent press". I must've mixed the commercials for dishwasher and clothes dryer in my head as a kid, but there it is, living on - endlessly - in my head.

Right now it's, "Fouuur calling birds, three french hens, twooo turtle doves...fouuur calling birds, three french hens..."

It also increases under stress, so that I have a cacophany going on: the 'songs', my 'management' thoughts (Ok, gotta get his done, then that), then my survivor thoughts (What's that noise? Why'd she look at me like that? I can't do this!). It's like being forced to attend a bad party...

-Dylan

 

[AnnieLloyd]

Pandora
YES!!! this happens to me all of the time!! Most recently, a country song by Lady Antebellum "Need you now" specific lyrics..."I'ts a quarter after 1, i'm all alone and I need you now" has been playing over and over, and over in my head evertime I wake up and my husband is not home. I was unaware that carers could experience this too. Sometimes it is okay for me to hear it, and others i break down.
Glad to know I'm not alone

 

[Grainne]

It also increases under stress, so that I have a cacophany going on: the 'songs', my 'management' thoughts (Ok, gotta get his done, then that), then my survivor thoughts (What's that noise? Why'd she look at me like that? I can't do this!). It's like being forced to attend a bad party...
-Dylan

Well said Dylan!! I experience the same thing exactly.

I always have a song going on in my head. If I have a quiet moment, I can sit and listen...if I'm still enough, and can focus long enough, I can start to pick out the individual instrumental parts.

Funny though, sometimes those songs are from my son's television shows. Nothing like sitting in a meeting absent-mindedly humming the theme song to Sesame Street.

Grainne

 

[pandora]

Makes me feel so not alone..thank you! Annie Lynne...I am a carer but also a suffer...

 

[Grama-Herc]

It would not be so bad for me if something decent got stuck in my mind. But I always seem to get stupid silly songs or commercials stuck playing over in my head.

 

[TagsJay]

Everynight is a different song for me. I can only remember the song for a couple of minutes when I wake up and then it's gone. It's usually a song that I wouldn't normally listen to either.

 

[Hemels]

OMG Yes ... I never really thought about it till I read your post.

Like She Cat said - it's song's and even phrases that people say or have said to me over and over and over and over its like a never ending record :mad:

:Hug_emoticon:

Hemmy xXx

 

[anni]

Hi-

YES! And it does seem to be for me some STUPID song, like a commercial jingle or Sesame Street song. The thing will reply alllll day and night! If something has to be stuck in there, I wish it could be something at least nice to listen to like an actual song!

Anni

 

[wvstacy]

yes ohhh yes

I get this sometimes , the strange thing is sometimes its like a whisper and i cant quite figure out what is being said.like someone is saying gibberish ! Thats annoying as hell.!!
DO you ever get noises in your head when the room is completly quiet (no i am not insane) and the only way to make it stop is to hum or yell?

 

[pandora]

I don't have that particular experience but I do know this my son has sensory integration dysfunction and high functioning aspergers...he hums alot. I think the humming is a way to sooth yourself and the yelling could just be pent up anger and frustration and that is your bodies way of releasing it.