I hope the aliens enjoy hearing the chorus of one song over and over again for days straight. I've gone to bed and woken up with the same single-line on endless repeat.
Listening to the song all the way through can often be a cure for this. Just passing on something I read online and tried successfully after this driving me crazy many times. Apparently if you listen to part of a song without finishing it sometimes that can trigger a part of the song playing over and over in your head
This has never worked for me.
One weekend, back in college, my roommate and I had Take Me Home, Country Roads stuck in both of our heads for an entire weekend. At first, we tried to smoke it out by playing it once, no dice. Then we tried to nuke it by blasting it on repeat, full volume, for a long while. The two of us were still humming it the next morning. We just accepted our fate and it went away by Monday.
Sounds like it took you to the place you belong 😈 (West Virginia, etc)
What the aliens hear:
"A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of da da dum, da dum dum, da dadadada dadadum..."
"I wear my sun glasses at night so I can so I can, can something at night sunglasses I can"
The true version of the song.
The aliens will soon learn not to trifle with us, once their human friends are infected by a bad ear worm.
Baaaybeeee shark doot doo do do do do…
Reading this comment section was a mistake :(
I think I'm special here. Most of the time if I've got a song on repeat and I'm tired of it I can think of a different song and play that instead. I just tell my brain, "Dummy, play The River by King Gizzard" and I'll hear it. It's nice.
The problem is there always needs to be a song going - there is no silence track. As soon as my brain notices that I'm not playing a song, it'll play one for me, usually the last one I heard.
I have so many questions.
Have you tried meditating to get a few minutes of quiet?
Do you "hear" your thoughts / have an international monologue?
How detailed are these songs? Do they have just vocals? Harmony? Drums? Bass?
How many times do you have to hear a song before it becomes 'playable"
Can you play an instrument?
Do you have perfect pitch or is everything relative?
Not op but have a similar "problem". Straight up an earworm machine over here. But I can control it for the most part
Meditation is not my thing but if the song is getting annoying or too repetitive on a certain part I will intentionally try to distract myself. I certainly do have a monologue that reads, speaks, etc "out loud".
It only takes until i at least know a portion of the song enough to be able to sing along that I can play the majority of it ( as long as I don't get stuck in what I call a lyrical loop where one verse will tie back to an earlier one). It always sounds as is, with the band as well. Even if I don't know the lyrics I can hear the mumblings of that part.
When I worked at the office before the pandemic, a friend and I used to softly sing or hum a catchy song to influence one of our colleagues that sat next to us. Sometimes he came the day after and told us “You assholes! I’ve had this song in my head since yesterday and can’t stop singing it!” He took it very elegantly when we revealed we did this on purpose. :D
One, two, three four five, everybody in the caaaAAARRGH MAKE IT STOP
But I really don't wanna
Hey, OP. Also, fuck you, thanks.
And I just lost the game. Damn it.
Sometimes, I would randomly start screaming loudly in my head in order to find out if there are any real mind readers.
Haven't found any so far.
Sometimes me and my most beloved do this to each other. Just -- you know -- for fun.
Dumps like a truck truck truck
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