Sound Echoing In Mind At All Times, What Does It Mean

[Stanley Shi-Yume]

So I wondered after some of your comments if that's what was happening, my mind keeping itself happy by playing the sound.

In the past I accepted this experience as audible channels through which my thinking travels. It's always there, the question is whether I find what I hear pleasant or distracting.

When I say echo I mean it's looping something endlessly. What's playing or when it changes is highly varied.

Today I tried to change the sound to a soothingly non melodic combination of white noise and slow calm & deep tones. Kind of like the sustain of breathing, just sonically.

Strangely, it gets derailed by other songs, like my brain hit shuffle and lands on some song that starts, but then it shuffles again to something else. Then I got it to calm sounds again.

I think I need to create a track and program it in my mind. Then I should be able to hear it when I want to. But it will need to be song like, just highly repetitive to fit how my mind loops these sounds

 

[Ally]

When I say echo I mean it's looping something endlessly. What's playing or when it changes is highly varied.

I always wondered what that meant. I used to hear music in my head, echoing and looping endlessly. Used to annoy the hell out of me. Never imagined it had anything to do with my PTSD or possible dissociation. Makes sense, though. I hear things, sometimes, too. Like my name being called. Sometimes, I see things out of the corner of my eye (flashes of lights or images). Never really thought much about it. Never happened frequently enough to give it much thought. I guess I need to pay attention to it.

 

[Stanley Shi-Yume]

I don't know how to break this down for purposes of Vipassana (insight) meditation. I'm supposed to make note of everything my attention goes to or that I perceive. To acknowledge the Mind and Matter being experienced then let it (mind- the thought) pass away. I'm not hearing sound, yet sound is there, inside my mind. I feel like I will be having a brand new experience of life if I can grow my concentration to the level found in vipassana

 

[Abstract]

It could of course be an auditory intrusion linked to trauma. Some of it anyway.