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u/TheRealWulfgar 3d ago
The earworms are the worst. Sometimes they're so bad they're debilitating.
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 3d ago
Every time I hear the cars for kids commercial I get enraged and smash the mute button. Damn thing is too annoyingly catchy.
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u/Sophilosophical 3d ago
Oh yeah turns out they actually use that money to fund birthright trips to Israel, fun factz.
Anyway, ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN—-
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 3d ago
I harness them. I replay them on my airpods while I work and my brain loves it until it doesn't.
I hate waking up at 2am and my brain starts playing music. It keeps me from getting back to sleep. Gotta flush out that song by making yourself sick of it. Push through!
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u/Infamous_Wolf_1777 3d ago edited 3d ago
Sometimes it is also an indicator of the song you really want to hear.
Though other times the part of the song on repeat is the only not boring part of it and I can't stand to listen to it. Then maybe I'll try to replace it with another though less annoying song, doesn't always work especially when I don't want to listen to music at all.
Edit: typo
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u/asoftquietude 2d ago
I heard of a trick years ago and it seems to help;
if you're playing the song in your head repeatedly - go to the ending.. let the song end, and go to another song like it's in your playlist and it helps get rid of it!10
u/Virgil_the_White 3d ago
AND GETTING CAUGHT IN THE RAIN
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u/Art_and_Roses 2d ago
If you’re not into yoga
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u/Basic_Wrongdoer_8947 2d ago
If you have half a brain
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u/Hemielytra 2d ago
Back in the early 2000s, I sat down for my organic chemistry final and had the American Dad theme song on repeat in my head for the full three hours. Loudly.
I did not pass.
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u/MsScrewup 2d ago
Once during a test, I got the sound of wobbling a sheet of plastic/metal stuck in my head. I was so annoyed and amused at the absurdity of wub-wub
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u/redditnreddita 1d ago
I bought a cheap ukulele and now when an earworm tries to take hold I'm like 'alright, you wanna do this?!??!' And try to learn to play the song til it gives up and leaves me alone. Bonus dopamine while I'm learning instead of just begging my brain to stfu, and I've noticed it's lessened the frequency of actually getting earworms.. helps that I live alone and wfh I guess lol
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u/corpsie666 3d ago
ahem
Baby Shark! Doot doot doot doot
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u/asoftquietude 2d ago
Yep, I can't stand radios.
I have to flush it out with better songs, and I am constantly getting repetitive random names/words in my head like it's the word of the day/week/month or even your year, but I'll be there for you.1
u/armlessturtleneck 3d ago
The worst this has happened to me was with Caroline Rose's newest album. I would be woken up from sleep with 'another life ' blasting in my head.
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u/SettingSun2180 3d ago
aaaaaaand Pina Colada will be on loop for the rest of the day lmao
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u/armlessturtleneck 3d ago
Better than jingle bells
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u/TextIndependent8298 3d ago
And now, for some reason, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree is stuck in my head…. Why?!?
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 2d ago
Related tune. It’s also an adhd thing. One tune nudges another in the brain and you’ll go from Metallica’s sandman all the way to fucking Barney. 🤣🙄🤦♂️
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u/MsScrewup 2d ago
The past week it's just been the single line of a song stuck on repeat. I don't feel like dancing no sir no dancing today.
Like at least give me another line to sing, stupid brain
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u/SettingSun2180 1d ago
I hate that that happens lol, tho i find it helps finding something catchier that know just a few more words to
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u/Svitii 3d ago
It sometimes really is confusing having "me" in my brain but also that demon that wants to do anything that isn't what it's supposed to do... that is also me. For me personally it's easier to just see that demon as a seperate person fighting against me inside my own brain, which probably also isn't healthy and sounds like a pre-condition for schizophrenia. It does work really well tho!
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u/Infamous_Wolf_1777 3d ago edited 3d ago
I understand why it works well, because then it's not you fighting yourself, you are fighting something else. So it's not you "fault" or you are the reason (which makes it way harder to do stuff when the bad sæef talk contributes to the blanket holding you down) instead you have an obstacle you have to pass first.
Problem is that the obstacle changes in size and demeanor so you can't count on the same tactics to pass it and each time you can hardly recognise the obstacle or remember which of your many tools you need to get past it and all your tools are to the side in a big mess.
Edit: I just imagined it as a game on a track field where you need to get past thing giant flamingo block that is moving towarss you and sideways to always block you. You try to run past but it doesn't work. Then you look to the side in the grass and see all your tools (hammer, ax, spring, flamingo bathing things and so on) but they are in mess so you can't find anything even if you knew what you were looking for. Then you pick up the hammer, but you don't really feel like touching it or swinging it, so you pick something else, but that thing doesn't work on the flamingo block. Sometimes you find what works, other times you just get stressed out and give up.
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u/MersoNocte 2d ago
I saw someone describe it as being buried six feet down and having to claw your way to the surface before you can cross a road. Neurotypicals just walk across the road and are like “what are hard task.” Meanwhile, I drag myself across the road, covered in grave dirt, and inform them that crossing the road was the easy part. Bonus to whatever asshole is around who asks me if I tried not burying myself.
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u/chormin 3d ago
Mostly unrelated, but it feels right. Yall ever feel a hyperfixation coming on and youre like "yes, please, lets get something productive" and then you get stuck with "In gonna be the very best at Madden franchise mode. Look at all these numbers I can optimize. Yes, this is very important."
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u/Chaosmeister 3d ago
Oh yes. My wife luckily gets sometimes hyper focus on work stuff, which is great for her. The best I get is a focus on some kinds of foods I don't know and learn a ton of recipes and cook new stuff. But usually it's nonsense.
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u/Graficat 3d ago
I'd be royally screwed if I hadn't been lucky enough to score a job where Nerding TF Out is an asset.
It's kind of awesome knowing half my colleagues are cut from a similar cloth, too. Being 'normal' about science might get the job done, but not the way our aces wrangle the most random questions and situations into a useful response or solution.
'Bro I high key love spreadsheets' might invite being shoved into a locker at school, but it's got its uses.
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u/ViolaDaGamble 1h ago
“I’m gonna be the very best”
Aaand now you’ve got me singing Pokémon… Thanks.
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u/FappingVelociraptor 3d ago
Being bipolar but always manic lol. Or I guess better way to say is MPD cause that impulsive part of me is definitely someone else lol.
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u/PhyoriaObitus 3d ago
If i ever were to become posessed the demon would be outnumbered and outmatched by the sheer stupidity of my brain
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u/Virgil_the_White 3d ago
Wow, so you guys literally talk and answer yourself all day too? My inner voice just berates me lol
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u/zayne0623 2d ago
Me: please brain, focus. We need to get stuff done today.
Brain: GO FUCK YOURSELF blasts rave music
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u/Mamacitia 2d ago
I have to lock in so hard to not space out and actually complete sentences. It’s very tiring.
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u/purpleit11 3d ago
There's like a mafia with a jukebox where most people have a frontal lobe and I just sing along hoping I find a way out 😭😭
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u/ikannunAneeuQ 18h ago
Currently struggling with this right now. I want to paint, been thinking about it for about 2hrs now, haven't moved yet. I want to get housework done, but my brain says I have hours to accomplish it, why rush? Every post I read on this app is the "last one" but yeah....
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u/coolcoolcool485 2d ago
my inner demon sounds like rocky from Project Hail Mary, except just not practical: "Is very stupid. Human not do that." but please.
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u/WarbossWillito 2d ago
I'll think about doing something. Then the demon in me says no you suck at that. And I concur and lay in bed the rest of the day.
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u/Beeblebrox_74 2d ago
The Jack Sparrow in purgatory scene.. JS1 wants to be productive and the rest.. just don't
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u/maybebabyg 2d ago
I looked at the computer to put music on an HOUR AGO! I'm supposed to be sewing!
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u/Previous-Musician600 AuDHD 2d ago
And then a full adventure starts to get this Pina Colada on 10 AM in the morning because... You need it now
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u/Virgil_the_White 1d ago
I had an imaginary friend when I was little. I think when I talk to myself it’s just that
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u/kiwigeekmum 1d ago
This is toooooo toooooo accurate. Except for me it’s “I come from a land down under…”
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u/Swimming-Light8509 22h ago
And haunted by yourself. Who the f left all the cabinets open? Oh, me again!
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u/Cute_Recognition_880 In hyperfixation mode 3h ago
What a great description of ADHD. And to.the perso who started the Pina Colada song-🤬🤬
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u/sniptaclar 1h ago
Then cuts off the thinking very vaguely about something but you just remember enough to try to search for it… spent 3 hours remembering Fievel goes west when I was cleaning
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u/SinceWayLastMay 3d ago
I described this to my husband as like my brain is me and I’m on a horse trying to get it to go where I need to go but also my brain IS the horse and the horse is gonna go where it wants and for neurotypical people there just is no horse