Survey: Music In Your Head

YES=125 (91.9%) NO=11 (8.1%)
(Some were e-mailed replies, some are channel comments, in case you did the math.)

A video survey asking if you have music in your head most of the time.

Earworms, that's what I've been told a song that gets stuck in your head is called. Read more about it here:
http://www.business.uc.edu/earworms/vc

The song playing "in my head" is "Zombie" by The Cranberries.

The brain scan / MRI videos used here are available at:

http://www.msu.edu/~brains/brains/human/index.html

Thanks to the National Science Foundation
for its support of that website.

(I have altered the video by adding or adjusting color.)

Thanks to John Irwin Johnson, Ph. D., Professor, Radiology Department, Division of Anatomy; and Neuroscience Program
Michigan State University for his permission to use the videos.

Thanks also to Keith Sudheimer, who not only made the videos, but also provided his own living brain as their subject when he was an undergraduate research assistant in the Michigan State Radiology Department with Dr. Laura Symonds.

Thanks also to my son Dan, the camera operator and to my friend Will for helping me come up with the idea in the first place.

Thanks to YouTube and again to you for being a part of this survey.

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[lopezdmnd22]

Yes, why is it everyday I wake up I have a different song playing in my head?? I love music but it drives me crazy!!

[yelirekim]

@lopezdmnd22 Most of the time I love that the music's there but there are times when I could do without it too.

[CharlesLayton]

Yes, I very very often have music going in my head. Odd thing is, I have little control over it, and sometimes it will be something just great and other times it will be something maddening, like "Popeye the Sailor Man," which WILL NOT STOP.

[yelirekim]

Thanks for starting that little earworm in our heads, Charles. TOOT! TOOT!

[kkhchicken]

Yes. -And when I'm not 'hearing' music in my head, I notice that I group general noises into rhythmic patterns. It really bugs me when there are clashing tones or more than one rhythm competing, too.

[yelirekim]

YES!!! I do that too! especially with machine noises which are already rhythmic but other things like clanking dishes and silverware in restaurants or people walking, etc. cause the development of a beat. Sometimes they remind me of a song which then may develop into an earworm too. A lot of electronic sounds remind me of songs that also get stuck in my head. Life is just one long presentation of Stomp!

[yelirekim]

@chocolate96466 I've added you to the "YES" count. Sorry, I don't have any advice on how to stop earworms except that sometimes when I have one that is annoying, I listen to some actual music that I like for a while and it seems to make the bad stuff go away. Hope that helps.

[giantrobot69]

Yes, most of the time I have random music in my head and turn random sounds into patterns

[TStudiosFilms]

Yes. All the time. Most of my songs initially come to me without effort. Even when I'm filming my movies, the music that will be in the film is ALREADY playing in my head ;-)

Cool Topic!

[TheSailorSuit]

Yes, constantly! I couldn't live without it.

[margocotham]

Yes I do. Reading "This is Your Brain On Music" and "Musicophilia" to learn more about ear worms and head music.

[choirdiva1]

yes!