Musical hallucinations

Sometimes I hear musical pieces in my head. It could be a piano or a guitar or any instrument. Just goes and goes creating wonderful tunes

Or snippets of songs over and over until I decide o change it like a radio dial.

The same happens with movie voices and TV voices. They just repeat repeat repeat.

That’s one of my auditory symptoms. It comes and goes.

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That’s actually fascinating… Do you have any musical background?

I don’t. But I started playing guitar and piano in the last year. So I think it just seems to go with my auditory symptoms. It is interesting though. And also annoying when it won’t go away lol

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Yeah, I bet its annoying too. I’m sorry for that.

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This was the closest I ever got to transcribing a song that popped into my head with crazy synths and such in it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz86oQ8I9hPORHR6UEg3czZDY1U/view?usp=sharing

I experience the exact same thing, but psychiatrists keep telling me it almost never happens. F*ckers don’t know what they’re talking about. Luckily, I play the piano and organ so I try to transcribe some of that music, but a lot of it gets lost in translation and I compulsively delete the recordings.

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I do the same. I try to transcribe it. But I forget about most of it

I’d love to hear music and not panic chatter…

Good luck and I hope a great song comes to you that you can publish and make some money off of.

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I used to hear music that wasn’t playing… one time I heard an orchestra from an x box while it was off while I was on speed. I used to hear pink Floyd style music while stoned

That’s actual one of the few things I miss about sz symptoms

I had these for a few weeks about five years ago. I remember sitting on a bus listening happily. At the same time another non-harmful being lived in half of my body and I felt I would never be lonely or alone again.

So, @HuckFinn, I miss that time too.

I am not a musician; I couldn’t even tell what instruments were playing.

Remember back when this looked normal…My first 4 weeks of voices, I heard same song playing most of the night…Working 20 hours and 7 hours of college summer classes in physics and calculus. Needless to say, it undid me for 12 years now. I was able to work after a year but still not working FT any more.

Well you just officially made me aware of probably the most awesome schizophrenia phenomenon in existence since that’s my favorite band.

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On the second day of taking Abilify, I began to hallucinate music I heard on the radio earlier in the day. Quite annoying. There was a particular song that I liked that I couldn’t listen to for years because it played over and over in my head and I got so sick of it.

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Thats the same with me most of my auditory hallucinations are more like a tape recorder playing unheard music or sounds then actual conversations and voices

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I’m having this right now. I used to play instruments as a child. When I got ill this was one of the worst parts of it. I had accordion music constantly playing. Now after a bit of research I find out it may just be tinnitus! Not a hallucination at all!

I have songs play in my head all the time. Constantly, some song or a part of a song is looping over and over again. I have no control over it, and it’s very distracting. Right now it’s Could Have Been Me by The Struts. I also am a musician, mostly percussion but I also do a bit of string instruments. Dunno if it’s a legitimate hallucination or just some OCD-ish thing that makes me obsess over a song, but it’s like having headphones on, very vivid and clear.

Yea thats one of the things I read. Musical hallucinations are linked to OCD.

i hear a lot of 80s music in my head when i wake up in the morning. like The Cars- Drive. Elton John… just stuff from childhood… and i dont really like the feeling…