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Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) | Last Active: Oct 29, 2023 | Replies (60)

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I hope your music is as pleasant as mine. I decided to welcome it as nice background music piped in from my own brain. It doesn’t distract me from attention to whatever I’m doing, including going to sleep. I haven’t mentioned it to family members or friends because it seems so odd. I am tempted to compare this phenomena with the spoken voices produced by the brains of schizophrenic folks. As a matter of fact, there must be similarities in that our brains, like theirs perhaps, are involuntarily producing actual music though not actual spoken words. The brain process certainly might be similar. I wish I knew why and my brain choses the music, all familiar songs. Sometimes for days the song remains the same such as the multiple repeats of “Amazing Grace.” Sometimes I say to myself, amused, “Why THIS particular song?” … or why these particular songs, not others, come apparently to entertain me though I had not been thinking of any of these songs. I cannot change whatever song is “playing” and I cannot end it, and the songs are not songs I’ve been thinking about or wishing to hear. None have been songs I dislike. I guess I could thank my brain for that, but isn’t my brain ME?… I am the one responsible for the songs, no one else. It’s a puzzlement. A mystery .

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....totally agree with you in that "why this song or why this music or why humming" ... this cannot be a new phenomenon so has it been researched by scientists or ? I suppose not enough people have it or say they have it so compared to life threatening illnesses it is down the list.... I too am wondering about any connection between it being something not to worry about as relates to hearing loss, have been told, and it's similarity with people who hear voices telling them to do things, kind of scary but so far it's "only" been music or close to chanting and I cannot figure out the words. However, along with a laundry list of other issues I have it is for me "another worry." J.