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08 Sep 2010, 12:05 pm

TheDoctor82 wrote:
unless I'm listening to it in my head, not that much as of recent, but I did used to hear what sounded like high-pitched frequencies a lot back when I was a kid when it was generally very quiet all around.

I'd completely forgotten about that until this discussion; and thanks, now I hear it again. :lol:


I used to get that as a kid, too. I've attributed it to the consistent ear infections I had, though.


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09 Sep 2010, 12:52 am

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I've always heard music in exhaust fans, air conditioners, etc. Assumed it was normal rather than autism-spectrum stuff, but maybe it isn't. Hmmm...


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I always thought that was normal too...

I hear rhythm more than music, though. Love the beat of my slightly off-balance dryer with a full load. And the sound the rain makes when the outside AC unit is on.


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09 Sep 2010, 9:33 am

It happens to me fairly often. Now I use my head like an MP3 player if I don't have a computer. I've tried making my own tunes instead of the videogame music I normally get, but I can't keep those in my head long enough.



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09 Sep 2010, 11:09 am

I do this to an extent. My mind tries to find patterns where there is no pattern, and just a tendency to a pattern will set it off, like a sound repeating itself. The same with random patterns I see, if they are just a bit clustered I start seeing things in them, mostly animals. This behavior is much more intense when my brain is in high speed. When I was really depressed I actually stopped connecting the dots in real music and just heard it as random noise.



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09 Sep 2010, 12:40 pm

I have music running through my head all the time - sometimes other people's, sometimes my own - but then I'm a musician anyway so I don't consider it all that unusual.

Did have a laughable episode fifteen or so years back when I bought a CD by the ambient/industrial duo Main. The final track ("Thirst") is around 20 minutes long - I put it on and slipped into a rather, erm, medicated stupor on my bed. It wasn't until after nearly an hour that I realised the CD had long since ended and I'd been listening to the washing machine churning away in the kitchen for the last half hour or so.


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09 Sep 2010, 4:54 pm

Maan.. LOL!

That reminds me of a friend I had, she was really into earlyish industrial music where they used all kinds of non-instruments to play on.

We walked through Copenhagen and passing some guy drilling a hole in the asphalt. And I say Great solo isn't it? !st she looked like laughing and next moment like she was going to hit me in the face. :)