Earworms

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Corpsey said:
Some rando on quora sayeth

A tune stuck in your head is a phenomenon known as perseveration. The frontal cortex has a number of feedback loops that cycle through the basal ganglia. When tired, the inhibitory circuitry in the frontal lobe that control focus (think prevention of a “ooh shiny thing” moment) start to fatigue and regulation of those frontal lobe processes decrease. Unregulated cellular activity can create a positive feedback loop through the basal ganglia creating a thought or in your case, song, to be recurring and uncontrollable until you have some sort of sensory feedback to activate the cortical areas associated with the thought to provide the stimulus the brain was trying to mimic by perseverating the tune in the first place. For example, if you have a song stuck in your head, and you listen to the song, then it is no longer stuck in your head.
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Right so as you lose the ability to focus attention deeper programming takes over?
 
Corpsey

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I think all this is related (perhaps tenuously enough) to ADHD and depression, the inability to break out of a thought loop... Dopamine/adrenaline apparently can help jump the gap between synapses. Certainly I found when I started taking citalopram that I was less liable to end up in a miserable spin cycle of repetitive thoughts.

Being tired for me is being depressed. Not having the energy to escape 'the pit' (See 'the pit' thread by luka)
 
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mistersloane said:
All this week I've had a verse from Ruff Sqwad's 'Oochie wallie' freestyle -

"I'll get it poppin yeah
Poppin at you
And I'll surely blaze the fire
That will surely burn you
Look! But when you look
There'll be a gun in your view
I'm a clappy nigga on the loose ready to shoot
Oi!"

in my head, my dreams, all over. I know there was an article a while back about songs that could drive people mad, but I'd be interested in what tunes Dissensus people get stuck in their heads, either now or in the past.
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He didn’t even know police when he made this
 
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martin said:
I used to get these runs of insomnia when I was younger, where I'd be up for 4 or 5 days. One of these times I had Billie's "Because We Want To" in my head for what seemed like an eternity. It's pure evil, that song, kid disco hell. Most people think it was just an annoying girl who went on to marry Chris Evans, but every note of it drips darkness to me.

And the 'Minder' theme tune, but I can handle that.
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This gets it. Songs hellish, mocking, torturous
 
william_kent

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version said:
I've had Don't Sweat the Technique in my head for a day or so.
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is that really an "earworm" though? I'd just say it has a "great hook", "should have been a guaranteed hit", or if I was in a bad mood I might call it "catchy"


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I mean now you mentioned it I'm sort of compelled to watch the video over and over again but I have no idea why that may be

 
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william_kent said:
is that really an "earworm" though? I'd just say it has a "great hook", "should have been a guaranteed hit", or if I was in a bad mood I might call it "catchy"

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I mean now you mentioned it I'm sort of compelled to watch the video over and over again but I have no idea why that may be

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An earworm's just a piece of music that gets stuck in your head, so yeah, it can be an earworm.
 
william_kent

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An earworm's just a piece of music that gets stuck in your head, so yeah, it can be an earworm.
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"earworm" has a "parasite that is invading your head and eating your brain" sound to it though, it seems some people outside the UK will associate 'earworm' with all sorts of negative connotations

that's why we have to stand up for catchy tunes
 
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