Music in the Ear
Wednesday November 19, 2008
When I am much older, if I ever hear music in my ear, it probably will be "Do, re, mi." That's the song that stuck with me throughout childhood, from Sound of Music. Older people who lose their hearing (as opposed to those of us who have been deaf our whole life), commonly experience the sensation of hearing music in their ears, usually songs/music that they remember from earlier in life.
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Aahh, so some deaf people DO get earworms!
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm )
So some deaf Do get earworms!
ALONG WITH TINNITUS, I RECENTLY STARTED GETTING SERENADED BY A WOMAN WHO IS SINGING MY FORMER SCHOOL SONG. (HADN’T HEARD IT FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS!). SHE SOUNDS GREAT, BUT IT GETS ANNOYING WHEN IT LASTS FOR HOURS. SHE DOES JUST A FEW TOO MANY ENCORES. BUT I DO HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IT’S MORE PLEASANT THAN THE ROARING OF TRAFFIC, PINGING, PEEPING, SQUEEKING, RINGING OF BELLS AND VARIOUS OTHER DISSONANT SOUNDS THAT I HEAR IN MY HEAD ON A CONSTANT BASIS.
Oliver Sacks has written a book on this called Musicophilia which is a must read for every one who is deaf or HOH as there is a lot of research tied together on music and the dead/HOH,