Pretty much most of my life I thought everyone had this (as well as vivid imagination) but now I dont think its as common. Like I can cue up any song in my head and it plays through, all the instruments relatively separated etc. A similar thing happens for writing music, I can write song after song and rarely feel like I "dont have any ideas".

Sometimes I wish that power could actually be utilized..

all 41 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 35 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

My brain is more like a skipping record. I get to hear the same part of a song in an endless loop until my brain decides to move on to something else.

I fucking swear, dude, there was a period of TWO MONTHS where I had this thing stuck in my head 24/7.

Currently, I have had the main theme from Midnight Run stuck in my head for a week, which is a mood booster, so I don't mind.

Your version sound cool, tho!

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Check out George Rafferty's "Baker Street". You won't know it by the intro, but once it hits the chorus you'll recognize that beautiful saxophone solo. It's such a pleasant snipit to have floating around :)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    I have a friend who notices when she forgets her adhd meds because the music starts playing.

    When she told me this it was the first time I realized constant brain music is not a normal thing that everyone has.

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    There's a reason for the joke that adhd is like having 63 tabs open in your browser and one of them is playing music x)

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Unless I'm actively listening to something I've always got music going in my head.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    My brain is like a broken jukebox set to shuffle. I randomly get songs that I haven't heard in decades stuck in my head.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Yup, I am always playing with nonsense lyrics and scatting.

    Idris Elba shows up a lot because it's a fun one to scat.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm like this too. I have to focus on the current song to get it to move on or just switch the song entirely.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I never realized the two were connected. It makes sense, though. I don't seperate the instruments but there is almost always something playing in my head. The weird thing is I find it easier to remember all the words to the song than remembering the band who played it.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] [S] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's so funny, I'm polar opposite. I can't remember or understand lyrics for shit. I can write my own and remember them. And I can recall bands very well. There's veeeery few bands where I know the words to every song (probably like 2 bands I can do this with).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's funny, my memory for things like dates is non existent. I'm also pretty sure I have a neurological issue preventing me from recognizing people. But damn, my memory for audio i think is perfect. I can listen to a song once and remember every beat and every word for years. It's an odd thing to have thrown all my skillpoints into.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I have a perpetual mixtape running in my head. It's literally impossible to stop. I know I'm in the depths of depression when the music stops, and I'm climbing back out when it comes back.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Not musical person here, still have too much music going on in the head. Can't even sing them or play them or anything, most of the time cannot even recall them. But they are there...

    where silence ? [insert monkey meme here]

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is going to trip you out OP but the way you utilize that power is by making music

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    Haha yeah, but then the point of it is to have others listen and judge and eh, there's an album released every minute in the world, most of which now are ai slop and the majority of people can't tell the difference.

    My hard drives full of my songs will probably die with me. Most of it's unfinished anyways.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    All the time.

    Presently my brain is bouncing between these two songs, but I don't understand the lyrics to either:

    Nimalila - Scar zm, MDC

    Ibague - Monty

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I've always had background music in my head. It only stopped for a while when I was on vyvanse 70mg..which was way too strong for me. Now that I'm on a 30mg generic med the music came back. Sometimes I can change it but it usually stays playing a couple songs randomly..

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, there are many albums I don't really even have to turn on to hear. I can play Dark Side of the Moon heartbeat to heartbeat in my head. I often also have other music bouncing around built on my mood, my environment, other sounds I'm hearing, etc.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I'm not even a musician but I can use my brain like an MP3 player or make up my own songs for fun. I've learned to turn it off and on at will and make it play whatever I want.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I defenetly have music or an underlying "theme" all the time in my head

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I refer to it as my Theme Music. Sit-Com energy. Maybe some stoner movie sometimes. Occasionally a darker, more serious flick. But, yes, 100% of the time, always. Except the first time I took meds.

    The silence was actually terrifying.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I haven't heard the song "Cream" by Prince in over 30 years, but my brain DJ just started spinning it as I woke up. It's on loop. Tomorrow will be a different song.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yup i got a radio playing in my head all day everyday.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    North Carolina come on and raise up take your shirt off, twist it 'round your hand, spin it like a helicopter.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah at work I'm always bobbing my head to music. But I don't know how to play any instrument.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago