RE: Music Science: Earworms Part 2 - Musical Hallucinations
cool, just two on one day for me:)
Researchers at Dartmouth University found that playing part of a familiar song and then stopping it triggered the same areas in the auditory cortex as it did when listening to the whole song; your brain automatically tries to finish the song for you ...
That reminded me instantly on phantom pain in an arm which actually is not there any more. I've heard of people with amputated arms or legs and while exercising in front of a mirror it is as if their missing extremity is still functioning and present.
THIS again reminds me on Aaron Ralston, of whom's story I stumbled in the Internet during a research BEFORE the movie was filmed. It was the guy cutting his hand off after his accident in the mountains.
actively exacerbating the global earworm phenomenon.
LOL. I don't do that, though. I turn everything off and do not listen to anything else but the "clickediclick" of my laptop-teeth :)
For now I am so brain dead that you must feel honored as you are the last one, I am commenting today. Totally exhausted. :)
Unless you are like me and spend the vast majority of your life at home, I bet you subconsciously pick up tunes from restaurants, passing cars, loud headphones and so forth all the time! But yes thankfully you've killed your brain by over-commenting so you'll be fine! hah.
Thanks for keeping up!
oh, for sure I do. The sounds of life encounter me without me asking for them. I have heard a very strange expression (I guess it comes from Zen-tradition):
"Not the noise disturbs you but you disturb the noise. "
I tried to wrap my brain around it and I think, that there is something to it, which I cannot express but understand on a level beyond words.
Hope, you don't mind to throw in this esoteric quote:)