DID Do you hear voices in your head?

[Stickler]

@pamcoco
Try directing it.

If that works? Wellllll... You can't direct exterior music.

 

[Anarchy]

In the little bits that I've picked up about the big name composers, they all seem to have had something like synaesthesia, it seems they perhaps really did see pictures at an exhibition or the steppes of central Asia, as tunes.

Some also had intrusive music, famously McCartney spent a long time trying to work out where he'd heard the tune "yesterday" because he didn't work on it, it was just there. He didn't recognize it as his own.

 

[Varun]

@SheilaKathy, thanks for sharing! It really depends on the severity of PTSD and th...

@SheilaKathy, thanks for sharing! It really depends on the severity of PTSD and th...

Interesting. About a couple of years ago, I heard voices. One in particular. This was a period of immense stress in my life. Almost as if I was pushed to the brink. Anyway, my experience with 'the voice' was just the opposite of yours. It was actually uplifting and encouraged me to be better and to do better things. To help people. I had briefly known the person to whom the voice belonged. It's surreal talking about it even now. It was more weird realising that 'the voice' was no one else but me. My point: some voices can be good, and can inspire. That was my experience.

 

[New]

@pamcoco i know this post is old but wanted to respond because I relate.

I hear music often! I’ve never related it to the traumas but it drives me crazy. They are random songs playing but I usually recognize them. I still run all over the house trying to find something that is making the noise but never find anything and when others are around they don’t hear it.

 

[Anarchy]

Faith, have you ever read oliver sacks' book, the man who mistook his wife for a hat?

It covers a lot of stuff like hearing music, from a neurological point of view.

 

[hodge]

I often have the same kind of experience, @Faith Andrews. It happens when I wake up in the middle of the night and get up. It usually fades within a few minutes, so I wonder if it's some kind of dream state that lingers after I wake up?

Thanks for the reference, @Anarchy. That sounds like it might be useful.

 

[Changing4Best]

Yes, thanks for the reference, @Anarchy
PS. Everyone, I checked if the book is available on amazon and found an audio recording of part of the first chapter. It is interesting. Check it out, if you would like.

 

[New]

@Anarchy I haven’t read it but definitely will now. Thank you for the recommendation.

@hodge it does seem to happen before I fall asleep and sometimes after waking up. Usually my husband is around and tells me I’m hearing things.

Thank you both for responding and for being supportive.

 

[Anarchy]

A couple of quick questions about the music.

Have you been getting it for a long time? Or did it begin relatively recently? Say within the last year or two?

 

[New]

@Anarchy to be honest I’m not sure. I remember it happening several times but not sure how many years.

Definitely more than 2 years

 

[Anarchy]

Good, it's not a sudden change.

If something like it starts suddenly it's worth getting it checked out to make sure it's not something serious. Chances are that it's just an individual thing.

I've read a load of Sack's stuff, I think you'll like him. He did steal one of the stories, about a taxi driver, who lost his memory for what was on one side of him, but tell him to imagine facing the other way down a road, and he would forget what he'd just said, and tell the names of the buildings on the side he couldn't remember when he was imagining looking the first direction.

He was an Italian prof's patient. The Italian prof was really gracious, saying that the knowledge had got further with Sacks than it would have without him.

 

[New]

@Anarchy I read a little about him earlier and I do really like him.