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The music in your head : "Earworm"
Oct. 20th, 2003 12:21 pmThe article is here...
Basically doesn't say much that any of us who've had it (or have it often) don't already know, but at least there's the beginnings of researching it scientifically, through statistics.
Personally, I don't see it as a big deal. If we can clearly remember images and smells and tastes, why shouldn't we remember sounds? If we get visual flashbacks and daydreams, why not aural ones? The brain has a lot of cycles just spinning for its own sake that we don't normally consciously use or recognize, and on occasion they dip into the consciousness.
One difference often being that the visual daydreams can sometimes be more easily controlled (again, 80% of our active brains are used to process visual info, so why not?), but the aural activity is rarely in control. This may just be a reflection of the fact that we can close our eyes or turn our heads and change what we see. There is often little we can do to change what we hear from the sounds we're exposed to, as even blocking our ears lets something through. So, our visual recollections can be controlled, but our aural ones can not. The imaginative aspect of the brain recollecting the image knows it can be controlled, but also knows the sound can not.
Or at least, that's my take on it...
Basically doesn't say much that any of us who've had it (or have it often) don't already know, but at least there's the beginnings of researching it scientifically, through statistics.
Personally, I don't see it as a big deal. If we can clearly remember images and smells and tastes, why shouldn't we remember sounds? If we get visual flashbacks and daydreams, why not aural ones? The brain has a lot of cycles just spinning for its own sake that we don't normally consciously use or recognize, and on occasion they dip into the consciousness.
One difference often being that the visual daydreams can sometimes be more easily controlled (again, 80% of our active brains are used to process visual info, so why not?), but the aural activity is rarely in control. This may just be a reflection of the fact that we can close our eyes or turn our heads and change what we see. There is often little we can do to change what we hear from the sounds we're exposed to, as even blocking our ears lets something through. So, our visual recollections can be controlled, but our aural ones can not. The imaginative aspect of the brain recollecting the image knows it can be controlled, but also knows the sound can not.
Or at least, that's my take on it...
