Comments on: The Science of Songs Stuck in Your Head http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wayne http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-15562 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:52:07 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-15562 My girlfriend woke up one night, abruptly, then, she says a thought jumped into her head and kept going over and over again in her mind. By all accounts it wasn,t very nice at all, it upset her greatly and she still suffers the memories of that night to this day(over one year).
In reference to this I remember two programmes, :- the first was about a climber who fell into a cravass during a mountain ascent, after climbing his way out and dragging himself to some sort of relative safety he bagan to have the song “brown girl in the ring” by Bony M. playing over and over again in his head.
The other programme is on at the moment over here in England..”Its alone in the wild” one guy spending 3months in the wilds of Canada ALONE ! he’s had occasion to note that he had Queen music looping in his head…

Now I firmly believe that there is a psychological Term for this, and I would ask anyone out there who knows, PLEASE get in touch with me. So I can help understand and hopefully help my girlfriend to fully recover.

Thanks
Wayne.

]]> By: Creative Media Lab » Blog Archive » Estefania Avila – Assignment #1 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-15035 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:41:59 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-15035 [...]  1. http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/ [...]

]]> By: It's only me http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-14354 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:33:21 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-14354 And the winner is for the song always stuck in my head at the most random times: The Manama Song

I’d like to see you try to get it out of your head…..

Manama na bup beepy deepy. Manama na bup beepy dee. Manama na bup beepy deepy bah deepy bah deepy deepy deepy deepy da da deepy deep.

]]> By: Sam Drenner http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-12111 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:04 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-12111 I can’t believe people actually study why I have a song stuck in my head. I hope they can find a way to get Vannilla Ice out of my head cause I’ve been humming it for a week!! I’m glad that I’m not the only person walking around on campus with a song stuck in my head!

]]> By: Samantha http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-12110 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:05:59 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-12110 I am glad to learn that I am not the only person walking around campus with a song stuck in my head! It’s crazy that people actually research a topic such as this. I did not know that the music I listen to can have such an effect on my brain.

]]> By: PsychBLOG.co.uk » PSYlent: 16th September 2007 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-11285 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:19:54 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-11285 [...] and over again in your mind, and be unable to do anything about it? It happens to us all. Over at The Situationist they have an interview with the person who should be able to tell us [...]

]]> By: marc scheff http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-7025 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:41:52 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-science-of-songs-stuck-in-your-head/#comment-7025 This reminds me of an Arthur C. Clarke story from his collection, “Tales from the White Hart.” The story, ‘The Ultimate Melody,’ is about a scientist who studies every piece of music known to man and how, when, where, etc it has been more or less popular, and he builds The Ultimate Melody.

Warning: SPOILER

In the end they find the scientist in a completely unresponsive state in his lab, wide awake and unreachable. They take him away and find out from his assistant that once he played the melody it essentially took over his earworm circuits and diverted all brainpower to this looping tune. Odd that his assistant didn’t suffer the same consequences… tuns out he was already deaf.

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