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« Thread Started on Jun 24, 2009, 1:26pm » | ![[Quote]](http://images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
I found out a couple of years ago that this is the name/label given to that melody or phrase from a song that gets stuck in your head. For most people it's a song they heard early in the morning and sticks with them intermittently throughout the day. I happed on this phrase one day while my husband and I were chatting about it and a friend of ours said,"oh,ear worms".
My husband then divulged that he has had the SAME song in his head for FOUR years. How can this be? Why was I just finding out about this after being together for 30 years? He said he thought it best to suffer in silence. I asked him about it this morning and he said it still comes and goes.
Got ear worms?
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« Reply #1 on Jun 24, 2009, 2:50pm » | |
I get them all the time. I actually remember certain trips by the "soundtrack" that was playing in my head at the time. On a trip to Rome two years ago, I couldn't get the song Hummingbird by Wilco out of my head. On a trip to Vancouver Island 26 years ago (!!!) I remember the Clash's London Calling album playing constantly in my pea brain. On a trip to India in 1986, it was the Little Creatures album by Talking Heads. Whenever I hear the song San Jacinto by Peter Gabriel, it conjures up vivid images of driving across the Arabian Dessert at sunrise... and so on.
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« Reply #2 on Jun 24, 2009, 3:31pm » | |
I think part of what you're describing is more auditory recall,certain music conjuring up specific times, events. But to have a whole album running through your head,my God! The song my husband "hears" I didn't even know,still really don't,something called "the Road",don't know the group. As a Paramedic riding with a partner for 12 hour shifts he was subjected to ongoing repetitive top 40 crap and I guess this song was one.
I just listened to Little Creatures this past weekend.
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« Reply #3 on Jun 24, 2009, 3:31pm » | |
I don't have them and I don't want them. I wish you hadn't mentioned them in case I get them by thought transference!
I am guessing that meditation practice would sort them out.
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« Reply #4 on Jun 24, 2009, 3:33pm » | |
That may explain why there are 200 Buddhist texts in the house!
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« Reply #5 on Jun 24, 2009, 3:49pm » | |
Who's interested in Buddhism? You? Your hubby?
I haven't counted my books concerned with Buddhism but there are so many and I have no shelves for them.
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« Reply #6 on Jun 24, 2009, 4:32pm » | |
Jun 24, 2009, 3:31pm, casimira wrote:| I think part of what you're describing is more auditory recall,certain music conjuring up specific times, events. |
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In the case of San Jacinto and Little Creatures, you're right. The first time I saw the sunrise over the dessert, that's what I was listening to. Also, we had a several hour layover in the airport in Bombay due to missed connection to Goa and Little Creatures was the only cassette I had in my carry-on. The other ones were' true worms - the Clash at a time when I didn't own a walkman and Wilco, during a week where I didn't listen to the ipod much after the flight to Rome. BTW, I've had that Jann Arden song I posted a few days ago stuck in my head since posting...
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« Reply #7 on Jun 24, 2009, 4:32pm » | |
There are other earworms besides musical ones. My washing machine says the same word repeatedly while agitating, and my brain says it right along with it. Lately the word has been "Vietnam", but sometimes it's other words.
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« Reply #8 on Jun 24, 2009, 4:37pm » | |
I have a friend whom I just have to look at with a half smile for her to say "You fucker!" because she knows that I was thinking the magic words "Baby Love" and she will have the Supremes stuck in her brain all week.
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« Reply #9 on Jun 24, 2009, 4:43pm » | |
You made me guffaw!
Crap -- now I've got it stuck in my head, and I don't like The Supremes.
Those of us of a certain age need to avoid "I Got You Babe" by Sonny & Cher like the plague -- it occupies the brain completely with Sonny's nasal voice, all the chord changes, and the pause before "babe", over and over and over again.
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« Reply #10 on Jun 25, 2009, 2:54am » | |
always.
right now it's Una Furtiva Lagrima, sung by a tenor.
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« Reply #11 on Jun 25, 2009, 3:41am » | |
Casi, your poor husband. Whoa.
Did he ever like that song? Can he make it go away by concentrating on another one?
I kind of do and kind of don't want to know what song it is. I hope it's not too jumpy.
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« Reply #12 on Jun 25, 2009, 11:09am » | |
lola,the song in his head is one that was apparently in the top 40 on some rock station in the 90's,not too jumpy. I didn't know it when one day it came on somewhere where we we were together and he got very animated saying that's IT! I was not familiar with it at all. I believe he's tried a number of techniques, with no apparent success.
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« Reply #13 on Jun 25, 2009, 11:14am » | |
Jun 24, 2009, 3:49pm, spindrift wrote:Who's interested in Buddhism? You? Your hubby?
I haven't counted my books concerned with Buddhism but there are so many and I have no shelves for them. |
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sorry SD,meant to answer sooner. The books are my husband's. He embraced both Zen and Tibetan Buddhism for a good number of years. Is very learned about it but does not actively practice. Maybe the Paramedic work,the ear worms and marriage to me drove him to it.
He has kept a good number of the classic texts but we've been culling both our book collections and trading in for credit at one of the finer used bookstores.
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« Reply #15 on Jun 28, 2009, 5:34pm » | |
i get them sometimes and usually i share them with the world by just singing the song. lately it is songs for small children mostly, that i learn at work.
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« Reply #16 on Jun 28, 2009, 6:04pm » | |
How many people are carrying Billie Jean around in their heads right now?
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« Reply #17 on Jun 28, 2009, 6:27pm » | |
Jun 28, 2009, 6:04pm, bixaorellana wrote:| How many people are carrying Billie Jean around in their heads right now? |
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Great! Thanks! I had just gotten rid of it...
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« Reply #18 on Jun 28, 2009, 6:34pm » | |
Thanks for posting that. I was afraid I'd have to fly all the way to Winnipeg in order to stand on your front lawn and belt it out.
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« Reply #19 on Jun 28, 2009, 7:20pm » | |
Generally, only songs with clear diction get stuck in my mind. Since that was not one of Michael Jackson's strong points, I am immune to his songs for the ear worm problem.
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« Reply #22 on Jun 29, 2009, 3:01pm » | |
i knew a little boy in peru once who had a worm in his ear, it had to be removed by a nurse.
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« Reply #23 on Jun 29, 2009, 4:32pm » | |
Eeeeaaaauuuuuwww!
Coincidentally, I am reading a mystery novel about a man involved in a paternity suit. This seems to have allowed Billie Jean to take up pemanent residence in my brain.
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« Reply #24 on Jun 29, 2009, 9:40pm » | |
What is this 'Billie Jean' you're all talking about?
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« Reply #25 on Jun 29, 2009, 10:47pm » | |
Look at the # of views on this!
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« Reply #26 on Jun 29, 2009, 10:51pm » | |
For anyone who simply can't bear one more second of Billie Jean as an earworm, I offer the noise my handsaw was making this morning as I endlessly sawed a big limb. It's the ah ah ah-ah part:
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« Reply #27 on Sept 16, 2009, 5:04pm » | |
Heard my husband's earworm 2x since on holiday. Is this a sign I wonder? At least I refrained from calling him up and cranking up the radio into the phone. 
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« Reply #28 on Sept 17, 2009, 4:40pm » | |
I had "We're #37" stuck in my brain for almost 24 hours.
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« Reply #29 on Sept 17, 2009, 6:11pm » | |
Sept 17, 2009, 4:40pm, kerouac2 wrote:| I had "We're #37" stuck in my brain for almost 24 hours. |
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serves you right,I had it stuck for a couple of hours. 24 is right and just 
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