Do You Have Ear Worms?

[Screamy]

They never stop for me, but no matter what I listen to, deperado comes back everytime!!! Excellent song though, no complaints at all about ear worms here. Good job Brain!!

[epileric]

This may not help you get rid of them but I found this reply to a letter on earworms interesting.

It's similar to one of those muscle spasms or twitches you get once in a while. You know how annoying they are and how little you can do to stop them. Unrelenting tunes in the head happen for similar reasons. Just as your muscles are controlled by nerves, everything within the mind also corresponds to neurological activity, and this includes mental simulations of music.

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...0510.Ns.r.html

[Bee91]

I clicked the wrong one. I definately do! Mine's always Camptown Races. >.< I hate it so I like to sing it aloud. My earworm turns into a plague.

[msuder0583]

its always the very end of "hey jude" for me. =( sadly, i think its because it repeats for about 3 mins

[epileric]

Just came across this article on earworms.

In the last five years, earworms have become the subject of peer-reviewed scientific studies. In 2006, Steven Brown of Simon Fraser University even studied his own earworms and observed in the Journal of Consciousness Studies that they could be used as a basis for understanding how conscious experience can be split into multiple parallel streams. In 2008, moreover, Finnish researchers published a study that used the Interrnet to survey age, gender, personality and musical and linguistic competence of 12,420 countrymen who experienced the endless loops in their heads.

The Science of Earworms, or Why You Can’t Get that Damn Song Out of Your Head

[seizingbeauty]

Thank You so very much for bring this forum back up into the forefront! Really I appreciate have the random line from these songs running through my head....

[Kaitybugsmom]

Its nice to have a name to put with it. Now I can tell people I have earworms...Can't wait to see the looks I get over that one.

[maryltyme]

yes I do, and sometimes they mash up, two to three different ones at a time. Yippeee!

[Shelley]

http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/...your-head.html

They strike whenever I forget my ipod.

[Chris515]

I always have a song in my head. and it's usually one of those awful poppy songs that all sound the same.

I never have good songs in there..

funny thing, I even have songs in my head in the post ictal phase. I don't know who I am but I can recognize a song.