Does anyone else experience this?

Musicocd

Musicocd

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I'm 18 and I've had ocd for 11 years. I play piano and I've been heavily into music since I can remember. One weird obsession I have, which I can't seem to find much information on, is one to do with music. We all know how horrible the unwanted thoughts are, but does anyone get unwanted music? I can actually hear it, well not really, it's difficult to explain, it's as if it's playing in another room really far away but I can still hear every note and no matter how hard I try I can't get rid of it! Sometimes it's an actual song of like a band or something, other times it's my own compositions. It's really annoying, I can't stop listening to it, and when it comes with the pictures aswell it's almost unbearable. Is this even anything to do with my ocd, or is it something else?
 
sabbath92001

sabbath92001

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Yeah I get that too. Sometimes I hear bits from a radio talk show I listen to often. It's annoying and distracting but I think it's just a natural quirk of the human brain. Most of the time I'm listening to music so that I don't have to pay attention to all the unwanted thoughts and emotions. I guess listening to music is a bit like mindfulness, focusing on the present moment type of thing. By the way I don't think I have OCD, SAD yes, GAD maybe.
 
Musicocd

Musicocd

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No, it's not talk shows. I had Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet) in my head today. I hear every single note, I could literally play it back to you, it's an entire orchestra in my head which, to an extent, I can control.
 
Aoeu

Aoeu

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I will find that sometimes I end up with what most people call a "song stuck in my head" but worse. For me they will just play over and over and are quite distracting especially when I'm trying to sleep. Sometimes they will play much faster than they are supposed to and other times it seems as if it is me that is attempting to just "play" the song to its end so it will complete, however it will just repeat at this fast speed. They do not increase in play speed each repetition, the speed at which they play stays constant throughout each repetition, either fast or normal but never slower.

They also seem to be very much confined to me internally and never as though they were from an outside source or location. Almost the same as mental thoughts but music. I can "hear" every single note of each instrument down to the smallest detail and variation in pitch, speed, loudness. As if I were listening to the song from the CD/mp3.

I'm not much of a musician so I can't say that I've ever had original music play in my head. I also have no insight into how to make it stop or why it is there to begin with, sry :(
 
Musicocd

Musicocd

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Synesthesia isn't anything to do with images or violent thoughts, it's to do with experiencing colours when you listen to music and generally colours attach themselves to tones. The person above has exactly the same thing as me though! At least I know I'm not alone! :D
 
divalou

divalou

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i get this too! it can be really annoying. i will be sat in bed and all of a sudden i will notice that there is a song, or part of a song, which is even worse, going round and round and round. my bf thinks its funny! :D i know 'normal' people get songs stuck in their head, but mine wont go and are overpowering of other thoughts sometimes. or i'll be walking to the rythm of the song in my head! really irritating but not always anxiety enducing. unless i dont like the song hehehe.

do you find certain songs are more likely to get stuck in your head than others? there are certain songs that i will instantly turn off if i hear them begin cus i know they'll be in my head for ages!

also i hear the tracks in great detail.
 
rado31

rado31

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I have this , and something it is unbearable ! Rarely these are the songs that i like, rather some total crap. If song is minimalistic and if it annoys me much, than the chances that it will stuck in my head are big.
I m also very good in recognition of songs (less than second to recognize it ) and i switch the channel or escape from audio source. Also , i have installed a mini radio to play classic music by night , to avoid the whole mess.
 
Musicocd

Musicocd

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Hehehehe! I'm so shocked that so many people have this too! I couldn't find any information on it anywhere and I thought it might be something other than ocd. Ah I love you all for being as weird as me!
 
cheeseandrice

cheeseandrice

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You're describing music looping. Your brain is not filtering out this useless information like it should...

I know this sounds odd, but when this happens to you; try humming or singing along with it. You'll eventually get bored and the looping should ease a bit...

I had this OCD issue for quite a long time. Now when it happens, I just go with it and don't fight it. You have to remember that when you try to fight your OCD and get rid of the thoughts, it will fight you back twice as hard.

cheeseandrice
 
rado31

rado31

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cheeseandrice said:
You're describing music looping. Your brain is not filtering out this useless information like it should...

I know this sounds odd, but when this happens to you; try humming or singing along with it. You'll eventually get bored and the looping should ease a bit...

cheeseandrice
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No, actually it wont stop that easily. I try to sing with those idiotic melodys , give all of me, but it wont go away so simple. It is like stuck in reverberant circles. Only , when u sing it u feel silly and u feel a little ease, and there are you rite.
 
cheeseandrice

cheeseandrice

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"No, actually it wont stop that easily."

I didn't imply that it would stop easily. It takes a considerable amount of time before you can train and change your brain.

"I try to sing with those idiotic melodys , give all of me, but it wont go away so simple."

Overcoming any OCD symptom is not a simple thing to do. It takes a ton of practice and the willingness to change your thinking patterns.

Regards,

Cheeseandrice
 
Starry

Starry

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I don't have OCD, though I've had a few people comment that I may have a few OCD-esque thought patterns...

But I get this too. Actually, nearly every day I wake up with a song or tune in my head that just keeps repeating over and over and over for hours at a time... Then it tends to go away or change into something else...

It tends to go quicker if I don't think about it though, by distracting my mind with other thoughts as much as possible.

Though I don't mind it, unless it's a song or a tune I dislike lol. I'm used to it, I've always had it... Sometimes I even like it, though it's a pain when I need to concentrate on something.

It sometimes happens with words too, the other day I woke up with the word "Okavango" going around my head over and over lol... It stoped about 30 minutes after I researched it and scratched the "brain itch" it created lol.
 
applesewer

applesewer

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I think I get something similar to this too...although I don't think I get it as clearly as some of you cause I've never found it to be an unpleasant thing. But sometimes I feel like my brain is like a radio reciever that picks up random sounds...and it's weird cause it seems to be beyond my control....like it just plays in my head....but at the same time sometimes if I concentrate i can will the sound into certain places and i can usually make it stop if I want to by just kinda shaking it off and turning the tv on or doing something else or whatever.

But recently I've been picking up voices....like it feels like I tune into random conversations in random places around the world....like the other day some african guy was talking in my head....it was in a different language but I could've verbalised what I could hear outloud....infact, woah, that'd be really interesting to try that next time and record it and try and get an interpretor to see if they can make sense of it! haha!...I doubt it! i expect its just some kind of extension of our imaginations.

anyway...its curious....but I don't think it's anything to worry about.

p.s. "Okavango"...lol! brilliant! haha....yea I get random words too...i usually just blurt them out and get weird looks! haha!
 
tomato

tomato

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I've experienced this many many times, and it is so annoying....tends to be much worse when I am mentally tired.

Something similar also stops me from playing any computer games ever again! I found that after playing these games, the images would burn themselves into my mind, and the darn things would be just playing over and over and over when I was trying to sleep..along with the theme tunes..I literally wanted to bang my head against the wall.
 
Musicocd

Musicocd

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Not being able to play computer games! Torture! I'm like that with scary films, I think a lot of people with ocd are. I can't get rid of certain scenes and then I convince myself that, whatever the image is, it's in my room, so I have to switch the light on, then convince myself it's not there by checking all sides of my bed then I turn the light off and it all starts again! Silly silly ocd!
 
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