Snippets of songs. They go round and around in my head.
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Constant loop. Usually a song I like and then it gets ruined by the repetition. Thanks brain.
One line, or a single riff... Round and round and round until something takes its place.
Yep. I've learned that this happening is a good indicator that I'm not doing well mentally and there's a thing I'm avoiding confronting.
Then I have to play brain detective until I figure out what it is.
Yeah 🫠
Same. I often wake up with random songs going through my head in the middle of the night. Sometimes it’s not the same one that was looping when I went to sleep.
Sometimes listening to the song gives me some relief from it, but not all the time.
Usually I have to find another song to replace it.
I think I'm lucky. If I have a song stuck in my head, it usually the entire song. Unless it's Kill the Poor by the Dead Kennedys, then it's just "Kill the Poor!". GAH
This is why i like orchestra style music, no lyrics to focus on so it's a little easier to deal with...
If I'm not listening to music or hyperfocusing really hard there's a constant looping snippet of some random song playing almost all the time, usually just a few seconds long. Changing it requires to listen to something else. I don't really mind it (as long as the song doesn't suck!), seems like my brain just needs a constant rhythm throughout the day. I always thought that it's normal for everyone until I learned about neuro divergence a year ago.
Oh. I thought this was just me. I tend to repeat phrases or meaningless collections of syllables in my head, but I also got warrant’s cherry pie stuck in my head for several months once , which was awful
Bad enough that I cannot handle music with lyrics, with a few exceptions. Genres like post-rock are all I listen to.
instrumental music is so good. Bands like Chon (math rock/math metal) or casiopea (80s j-fusion) are among my favorites. If you like post-rock theres an italian band called massimo volume (means maximum volume) though they have lyrics so i don't know if you'd like ir
Casiopea is amazing.
Not sure how you feel about lofi... but there are several awesome spotify Playlists that focus almost exclusively on no lyric music. Just easy beats that don't stick for too long.
It basically does not stop
Eenie-meanie-cippolini-oom-pop-pop-a-leaney-hotchie-kotchi-Liberace-I-love-you.
Non-stop, unless I'm listening to, or singing something. If something gets stuck, I have to listen to that stick specifically and read the lyrics while the song is playing... Then it goes away
Yes
It used to be awful, I'd end up repeating the last thing I said in my head over and over 'til there was something else I needed to process verbally.
same, I'll get stuck on a loop repeating the last thing in my head. Listening to music helps sometimes.
I'd say moderate. I keep repeating song lyrics and quotes.
I get this pretty bad from time to time. Usually, I'm spelling a word over and over again. Sometimes, the chorus of a song.
When I consciously recognize I'm doing it, I can usually force myself to switch from one word to another, and after three or four times, I lose interest in it.
Worst is waking up in the middle of the night doing it. I try to avoid it by keeping video playing overnight.
I had "dragon cum" stuck in my head for years (I think I picked it up from bad dragon) and now "gay homosexual women" has been stuck in my head for a few months now.
yeah things like that get stuck with me sometimes, i can totally relate
It depends. Sometimes it hits hard and others I can just ignore it. My daughter and I do like to try to get songs stuck in each other's heads though, so we'll constantly quote lyrics to each other and try to pass them off as regular conversation
I've got about 10 seconds of an incubus song I don't even know the name of circling in my head since I woke up. I can't remember the last time I actually heard it.
I call them my word/phrase/song of the day. Same as you, internal is strong AF, but unsure about external.