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Music in head/Aural Hallucinations

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When I trip on high doses of tryptamines, I tend to get a music playing in my head. Sometimes the music has a 'beat' that 'matches' the visuals, especially when it's intense CEVs.
 
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That's interesting that you get aural hallucination despite being partially deaf. Have you had the hearing impairment since birth or did it happen later in life after the parts of your brain that process auditory signals had been conditioned to environmental noises? I know people for whom the latter is true will sometimes hear phantom noises.

There's a thread about this around somewhere. I get them a lot on dissociatives, especially off of a constant and largely uniform noise like the slightly variable hum of an air conditioner unit. The psychedelicized brain seems to "riff" off of those tiny rhythmic changes in an otherwise constant noise and spin out melodies. For me it's usually a sonorous chorus of "la la la's" or similar harmonious repeating patterns. Washing machines also work well for this.
 
im pulling up a lawn char for this one, OP.
i too am interested in the mechanism that causes our own thoughts to become audible in our minds.
if i choose to i can conjure up any music, sound etc in my mind,
yet ive asked my mother and grandmother if they can and my mother is barely able to and my grandmother just cant.

this intrigues me...
 
Mine used to be just chimes and stuff, but now it sounds more like sirens, varying in pitch. It's that way with acid and shrooms, but with shrooms, it turned to this harpy, stringy melody accompanied by this faint (but shrill) pulsing that was going along with my racing heart. And of course, sounds get distorted as well. I even heard voices that were simply not there last time I took acid.
 
Ramirez said:
Mine used to be just chimes and stuff, but now it sounds more like sirens, varying in pitch. It's that way with acid and shrooms, but with shrooms, it turned to this harpy, stringy melody accompanied by this faint (but shrill) pulsing that was going along with my racing heart. And of course, sounds get distorted as well. I even heard voices that were simply not there last time I took acid.
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The chiming sounds like what I go through.
 
really interesting thread. I haven't noticed this effect so much with tryptamines, but i've had some of the most complex & amazing aural hallucinations on JWH-250. Like crazy rock/reggae electronica music that i've never heard before. Sounded so real the first couple times i went walking around the apt & outside trying to figure out where it was coming from... then i realized it was coming from my brain... weird... but pretty friggin sweet as well. Might've mentioned this in a PD social thread a while back, think a couple others had similar but not quite as complex or vivid audio effects. You're definitely the first deaf(ish) person I've heard of having this experience. You should probably contact a psychophysics researcher, this is the type of thing they'd be really interested in hearing about i'm sure.
 
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The chiming sounds like what I go through.
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Well, my second time with shrooms, it would go from chiming to sounding more flute-like, then it would go to something like hollow wood-y sounds. Like wooden chimes.

A semi-deaf person getting auditory hallucinations, though, is definitely most fascinating.
 
any major dude said:
really interesting thread. I haven't noticed this effect so much with tryptamines, but i've had some of the most complex & amazing aural hallucinations on JWH-250. Like crazy rock/reggae electronica music that i've never heard before. Sounded so real the first couple times i went walking around the apt & outside trying to figure out where it was coming from... then i realized it was coming from my brain... weird... but pretty friggin sweet as well. Might've mentioned this in a PD social thread a while back, think a couple others had similar but not quite as complex or vivid audio effects. You're definitely the first deaf(ish) person I've heard of having this experience. You should probably contact a psychophysics researcher, this is the type of thing they'd be really interested in hearing about i'm sure.
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When I'm sober I can essentially play music in my mind. I can do the same when I'm tripping, but what intrigues me is that, more commonly, I tend to get nonsense dialogue in my head whilst on high doses of psychedelics. I remember hearing those same nonsensical voices in my head when I was really young (probably before I could speak), and when I was a bit older (still quite young) and was on the verge of sleep, but still just barely awake. I've heard similar voices in psytrance songs (none that I can remember the name of) that I assume must be an attempt to recreate that sort of nonsense dialogue I sometimes hear whilst tripping hard in a less than comfortable environment (a police station for example :p).
 
I have recently been going through a phase of DMT exploration. I have noted when I smoke a breakthrough dose of DMT I first get what seems similar to the wah wahs from nitrous, but it slowly rises in frequency and fades out into silence, then after a short while I hear something that I can only describe as gooey xylophones, It sounds like a xylophone or chime that is sort of liquidy and bubbly sounding, It is a sound I had never heard before and really cant describe. I like to think of it as "ancient sounds of the future" which I would like to know if other people have heard these types of sounds while smoking DMT and if they sound "anciently futuristic" or if you can relate with what im saying...
 
that happened to me once when i was really high..i started hearing megalomania by sabbath/
 
I also can and do regularly play/make a mental musical soundscape for meself with or without psyches. Actually think I find it easier to do without psyches, to be honest. Tend to be too easily distracted to keep it up for any length of time on them.

Only substance I have had what I would think of as having caused me full-on auditory hallucinations (hearing "people" talk, hearing "ghost radio" quite distinctly in any low-level white noise (like a speaker plugged in but with no music coming through it) etc) was MDPV at the tail end of a heavy, multi-day (or week) session. Not exactly a psyche though...

My disability still leaves me with a functioning auditory nerve, which is a prerequisite for cochlear implantation. When they're off... It's kind of like there's a space of nothing and the brain tries to fill that 'nothingness' with random 'signal noise'. But tripping has created a synaesthesia between the audio and visual hallucinations... the sound of tunnels of gems blending and changing to a 'music'...
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Without the partial deafness element, that sounds pretty familiar to me - a tripping or otherwise rather heavily pre-occupied mind will definitely try to make connections and even create very real sounds/speech/music etc if left to it's own devices, in my experience.

Also, Derek Tastes of Earwax - well worth a watch cos it is just plain fascinating :)
 
Yes. LSD and other tryptamines (never experienced it on phens) can allow you to compose music in your head. It's pretty amazing.

I also get full blown synesthesia going along with the music that my brain is creating/replaying and they seem to feed off each other (i.e. the visual and aural aspects).

I remember a specific time from phish show where I was tripping quite nicely on LSD. After the show I was reliving all the best moments of the show and deconstructing them and making my own songs and jams from the pieces of their musical language while still retaining their overall sound.

When I got home I listened to Frank Zappa for a while. Once I took the headphones off, my brain started creating a perfect blend between the two sounds. Like a more orchestral phish with horns and xylophones.

Just like after a certain point of dosage/intensity in which you can gain some control in guiding and deciding what CEVs you experience, the same thing happens with music. At first you just hear it but if your tripping hard enough you can manipulate it very easily and intuitively.
 
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Also, Derek Tastes of Earwax - well worth a watch cos it is just plain fascinating :)
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that is a great documentary, i was about to suggest it when i saw your post. Gotta love the BBC. There has been a fair amount of research on synesthesia, but most of it focuses on people with disorders that cause the phenomenon as opposed to drug induced experiences. Interesting stuff
 
Yea that is a really good documentary from what I remember. I especially liked the idea of synesthesia having played a part in the development of language.
 
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