I have this and I've discussed it w/my Dr. It sounds like a radio is playing softly in another room

I sometimes hear murmured conversations, not just music. I was told that this can happen with tinnitus. It's freaky and I used to drive my husband crazy, trying to get him to tell me where the music or the voices were coming from.

I hear an old-timey radio when I'm trying to go to sleep. The sound is always just a little too faint to make out what the song is.

My mom had this issue almost the whole time she lived in the Seattle area. Turns out it had to do with using q-tips to clean her ears. I don't know if it's because the q-tips were stored in a moist area and grew things or if they were pushing things in and damaging the little ear hairs but when she found out they were bad for ears she quit and the music stopped but came back when she backslid and used them again. She used to ask us all the time if we could hear the music. I don't know why it happens to others but that's what it was connected to for my mom. Some people say it's the music of the spheres but in my mom's case it was music of the q-tip damage.

I get “olfactory hallucinations”, where I’d completely out of the blue get a random smell of something that no one but me can smell & also has no explanation. A couple nights ago, I was lying in bed & suddenly got a whiff of buttery baked potato (my mum was in bed & no one had done potatoes that night). My older sister has a theory that I might be smelling things in relation to someone who has passed away & the smell is something that person liked. Kinda spooked me, because I smelled Parma Violet sweets a while back; & the only person that would’ve been is my sisters dad (we have the same mum but different biological fathers), as he used to eat them all the time. Maybe I’m just going nuts, though! 😂

Oliver Sacks wrote a book called Musicology, and he discusses this at length. I heard him at McGill explain it. He said that auditory hallucinations become more common as people lose their hearing---that may not be your case. He said people would be woken up in the middle of the night by them.

Phantom Radio is what I call mine

Yeah, it isn't fun. I developed the auditory hallucinations a couple of years ago and no one understands kust how annoying it is. I hear all kinds if music and once in a while I hear a baseball game being announced. So far, my doctors can't find out why I have them.

I hear music, but only when I'm lying in bed at night and it's quiet. It sounds like it's coming from another room as it is faint. I thought it was connected to my tinnitus.

I get this especially after too much caffeine

I sometimes hear (fictional) orchestra music when I'm dozing off. But it's quite rare. (I also heard familiar voices calling my name a few times)

I used to have this upon waking and going to sleep. Hypnogogic hallucinations in my case. Got treated and my sleep patterns don't cause them anymore. I really miss the music now that it's gone

Yep, growing up, I would get out of bed because I heard music playing downstairs. Nothing. But I swear it sounded like a party going on.

that's not normal???

This happens to me all the time. I've read that it's the brain "making sense" out of white noise from AC, fans, electricity... Sometimes it's talking, like a news program was left on in another room, and sometimes it's music; I can usually identify a genre, even, though not individual songs.

Is that why I constantly hear the bluey theme?

Wow! That just recently started happening with me-thanks for ur contribution

The times in which music is not playing in my head are so rare that it will stop me in my tracks as I listen to the world without the distraction of a radio seemingly implanted my skull, playing the same song or portion of song for sometimes days on end. If I really need to concentrate on reading something, I have to play innocuous instrumental music, because the lyrics of the song looping in my brain will interrupt my reading. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, slimy wet hole with the ends of 🎵you don’t have to put on the red light!”🎵

I only hear music when it's extremely loud, like close to the train or when you hear some similar noise. When people say that you cannot hear your thoughts. Then I hear some music. Cannot tell the melody, but definitely music.

I once asked my boss who had the radio on in the office. She gave me the strangest look. We had been having an ongoing conversation and all the time I had been ‘hearing’ the radio. It was onto it’s third song when I mentioned it…

I hear music or talking in the "white noise" We have a fan on at night in our bedroom & I swear there's a radio playing. We also have a white noise machine, which we have set to play rainfall. I still hear the radio voices. FML

I get that occasionally but since Dad died, I've been having a lot of audio hallucinations. They dont scare me though. BPD sometimes gets hallucinations so maybe its just where the disorder is updating itself.

Um, now I'm concerned for myself. Pretty much all of these are things that apply to me. sooo...

I sometimes hear distant music in my head while I'm dozing off at night. I came to the conclusion that my brain is getting ready to do its usual nighttime "filing," and my "file clerks" enjoy listening to the radio while they're working. I'm glad I'm not the only one, so I'd like to thank everyone who has posted on here that it happens to them, too.

Always done this

SAme

Constantly hearing jazz and classical, but it's just the air conditioning/neighbors. Didn't know that was odd.

I thought it was more common as well. I have this all the time.

Whoa... I have this!! I usually hear it in the shower or when I am trying to fall asleep. I actually turn on my "bedtime playlist" so I can focus on real music. Weird...I thought it was just my overactive brain.

Waitaminute. I have this. Same for my father. So, this is not normal?

Same here!

Does it count if I'm going through something emotional and a sad classical peace starts playing and I can't stop it?

when it's an ariana grande song it's fun. :-)

I would hear what I call "phantom cries" when my son was a baby. Baby was sound asleep. Anticipating nighttime feedings made me actually hear my baby crying ehen he wasn't and it would even wake me up.

I’ve had it once or twice when I was very fatigued, definitely mention it to a dr if it’s happening a lot/without obvious cause.

I was in my teens before I realized that other people do not have a constant soundtrack playing in the background of their mind. And I immediately felt sad for those people.

My nan suffers with this. It drove her batty at the beginning

Wait…. That happens to me!

I think if that ever happened to me I’d blame Dee. She’s such a trickster.