Hearing Music in your head...
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This morning before dawn I was woken up by a slightly muffled music.. Drowsy, I listened subconsciously to it and realised it was the music alarm for my hubby. I was confused why the alarm rang... cos he usually doesn't set it for Saturdays/Sundays. I thought I was imagining things. But insistently the music became louder and louder (though still sounding from very far off) and until I felt I was awake, listening to it. But it sounded very far off and muffled...I got disturbed enough to get out of bed, open the door, walked out of the room to check -
- and there was nothing but silence outside. The music was gone. I could not explain it!
I went back, and lie down again wondering what happened. Silence. no more music.
I remembered a story I read in Oliver Sacks about this woman with a neurological disorder where she kept hearing music that wasn't there. (musical hallucinations)
You can read about another similar case here... or could it be a case of ear worm?!
I got so disturbed I decided to get up. Am I very stressed lately? Could it be that I really failed to handle my stress properly?
I went to the toilet and pondered and...
I HEARD THE MUSIC AGAIN THIS TIME LOUD AND CLEAR!!
quickly I exited the toilet (after appropriate tasks) and... FOUND MY HUBBY'S RINGING HAND PHONE PLACED AT THE OTHER END OF THE HOUSE NEAR MY MAIN DOOR. (that's why sounded so far off)
it was ringing after the 'auto snooze' function and I must have opened the door RIGHT at the second that the alarm ended.
So... *phew* i am not hallucinating. I am quite normal still. Can't guarantee it won't happen in future of course.
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Luckily, you found the phone. Otherwise, it'll be a mystery never solved.
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haha yah.. its like the mystery of the fan that kept turning off by itself...
i only realised later that it was my CAT that jumped on the control panel and turned it off...
scary ah.. middle of the night.. then the fan turn off by itself.....
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did you give hubster a kick for being notti ? ....
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maybe its the stress...
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hahah i'm just too happy i've not gone 'crazy'
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You must be wishing that the music was original, so that you could compose a song, sell it and get royalties!
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AAahhh harharhar!! ShroCat so blur!
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
You must be wishing that the music was original, so that you could compose a song, sell it and get royalties!
yalo... apparently a lot of great musicians used to have these hallucinations.and all I get is a miserable ringtone. nofair.
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I don't have auditory hallucinations, but sometimes, when I daydream, or when I'm bored and just lying around in the house staring at the ceiling, I'll start to 'compose' music in my mind or 'choreograph' some dance in my mind.
It's easy to do when you're walking around the neighbourhood or just in a relaxed mode. What's really irritating aren't these auditory hallucinations, but ear infections that ceaselessly give you not only a dull ache in the inner recesses of the ear, they also constantly amplify the crackling white noise you get when trying to tune a radio but not quite receiving the transmission! Once, in haste, I used a ward stethoscope without wiping the earpieces with alcohol first, which up till then, I've been super vigilant in doing. And guess what... that ONE lapse in judgement and the next thing I knew, I had ear mites!!!
It started with me hearing rustling, crackling noises the whole day and I thought I was going crazy or that I was developing tinnitus... After being haunted by those noises for an entire day and night, I went to the GP, who examined my ear canal, and said I had ear mites! EEEEeeeeeewwwww!!! Ear mites are horrible!
They get pretty active at night, so you can't sleep at all! They also end up giving you blardy awful pounding headaches because of your auditory overload and lack of sleep nor rest. Thank God there is a cure for that! I would have hated to live back in those days when people with ear mites suffered endlessly till they got driven insane and then they got dragged kicking and screaming, and dumped into some asylum because they started to act strangely from all the sleep deprivation. Maybe, Beethoven had ear mites, not tinnitus?
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I have it, for some reason, once in a while i will always seem to hear my handphone ringing, but when i check it isn't. weird..