My brain is weird...

[speeder]

Nothing wierd about it at all. I listen to a lot of CDs in the car, when I fire up the car it will of course be the song that has been in my head.

[Milu]

Get into car early morning, song playing in my head was the one I had been listening to in the car about 5 hours earlier. I'm tired after not enough sleep and a long day to look forward to. I switch on the cassette player and no surprise it's the same song playing. I switch to the radio for the news, same song playing, go to the next pre set station - same song, next station - same song. At first I thought the ICE system was broken and then that I had enterred the twilight zone. (The song was Voyage)

[tabs]

Your data storage unit knows what song you left off on, whether it is conscience or subconscience storage.

[AFJuvat]

Even creepier -

Having a song in your head that you haven't heard in a long time - 5 - 10 years.

On the way home, that song is on the radio.

AFJuvat

[wludavid]

Here's what happens to me: I turn off the stereo mid-song when I get to my destination. Since I know the song, I usually either finish the line or verse in my head or out loud. When I turn the car back on, I hear the line "again." By now I'm used to deja vu every time I get in the car.

[kach22i]

You have a wireless connection to your car's CD player.......................you are a robot.

Show us the women robots.

[Z-man]

Wayne - it's not weird. What's weird is when the little voices in my head say the same thing the next morning.

-Z-man.

[SLO-BOB]

Quote-"Show us the women robots."

Done.

[KFC911]

Although I'm an audio nut (playing from my own collection), and haven't listened to the radio much in the past 25+ years, I used to hate it when the last song I would hear on the radio in the morning was total crap (think late '70s), and then I would have that DAMN song playing in my head ALL day long...I could never locate my brain's off switch

[LeeH]

You need to finish the song:
http://www.kptm.com/prime/1327206.html

[bryanthompson]

I don't get anything stuck in my head anymore. I used to get dumb songs, random phrases, etc., stuck in my head all day long and it drove me nuts.

For some reason, though, it hasn't happened for a couple years. Dunno what the deal is. Strangely, while sounds don't get stuck in my head lines of java code do. It's so weird, if I listen to music while I'm working, the next time I hear that song I get a picture in my head of where I was in the program, what I was working on, and what the code was... it's weird.

[wludavid]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
...Strangely, while sounds don't get stuck in my head lines of java code do...

Yep, same here, but for me its anything I'm working on intently. When I was learning a foreign language I used to repeat phrases over and over subvocally. It actually really helped me get used to the way the language "sounded."

Other stuff that I can't stop thinking about I assume it's my subconscious working out a problem. Often I'll come back to the problem and it seems much simpler than it used to.

[SLO-BOB]

In college I would study for exams while listening to music. I would play certain songs for certain subjects, but always different songs for each battery of tests. The music helped trigger memories and I did very well with that method. Naturally one has to choose music that is not distracting, but thought process condusive.

It was for years that certain songs would create an epiphany on a great many subjects-kinda fun actually.

[M.D. Holloway]

Sebring77: You hit upon a very interesting subject matter - people learn according to different methods - auditory, visual, kinetically, and sensory but some actually learn musically. Your brain pushes out alpha waves when focused, beta waves when relaxed and theta waves when at peak learning. It's interesting that music will actually help produce theta waves as well. You have a section in your brain that is relegated (sp) just for music. Music plays a very important role in cognition that is really yet to be understood.

[masraum]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
I don't get anything stuck in my head anymore. I used to get dumb songs, random phrases, etc., stuck in my head all day long and it drove me nuts.

For some reason, though, it hasn't happened for a couple years. Dunno what the deal is. Strangely, while sounds don't get stuck in my head lines of java code do. It's so weird, if I listen to music while I'm working, the next time I hear that song I get a picture in my head of where I was in the program, what I was working on, and what the code was... it's weird.

Yeah, but you're a programmer. We already knew that programmers were weird.

[SLO-BOB]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
It's interesting that music will actually help produce theta waves as well. You have a section in your brain that is relegated (sp) just for music. Music plays a very important role in cognition that is really yet to be understood.

Hence, the "Mozart Effect". Studys show that Mozart stimulates the cognitive areas of the brain. We played it a lot for our kids as they grew up. Now their heads are the size of baskeballs and they don't talk-just "communicate".

We liked classical anyway, so it was very pleasant.

[M.D. Holloway]

I hear ya, unfortunitly in our house it's the Wiggles and CMN - maybe their will be a study someday that correlates country music and higher cognitive ability? Somehow, I don't think so...but it is fun to watch the little ons dance to it.

[htron435]

Man, I hate it when I'm sitting at my desk or doing some mindless activity and I start to hum or tap my foot to a familiar song. . .and then realize that it's the Wiggles. And it happens often.

[84porsche]

Originally posted by AFJuvat
Even creepier -

Having a song in your head that you haven't heard in a long time - 5 - 10 years.

On the way home, that song is on the radio.

AFJuvat

I love when that happens. The part I hate is not knowing the name of the song.

[Zeke]

Originally posted by AFJuvat
Even creepier -

Having a song in your head that you haven't heard in a long time - 5 - 10 years.

On the way home, that song is on the radio.

AFJuvat

Yep, think of a song, hop in the car and it's playing. Then there's the thing where 2 stations are playing the same song at the same time and you flip back and forth for some weird effects.