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Music in head/Aural Hallucinations

I have a friend that recently, while on psychs, has begun to compose all sorts of music. He believes that it is a mixture of using sounds from memory and composing from scratch as he tells me that he has composed modern-jazz from scratch as he doesn't listen to jazz as well as fairly derivative psybient after listening to psybient. I'm sure he will post in this thread at a later date to explain in detail haha
 
I don't know anything about how it works, but this may be some use. As far as I know (I'm sure a search here or on Google will bring up some further more scientific information) when a blind person takes shrooms it is possible for them to begin seeing colours, or what they define as colours. It's a visual that they can't get normally, but once they are tripping around the time a typical person would peak colours begin to show within a blind persons 'vision' (sorry if this causes offence, none was intended). So it could seem likely that if a blind person can 'see' colours, a deaf person could 'hear' sounds whilst using these kinds of drugs.
 
I think this is amazing, i have always wonder if deaf people experienced Audial hallucinations, i have also wonder if blind people Get visual ones as well (on account of my being lazy i havent really done much looking into this but i might do so now and post what i find). i find i get very intense audial ones on the come up on large doses of Shrooms (around 5+ g dried) but it isnt really music it more like grinding, whirling and clicking almost like i can hear my brain in action, but when i do listen to music (psytrance) my closed eye visuals follows the music!
 
On the blindness thing, I rewatched the documentary posted above again earlier and had forgotten about the case of the blind synaesthete interviewed therein. Despite being blind from birth, when his synaesthesia was triggered the receptors that recognise colour in his visual cortex lit up like a Christmas tree and he spoke in terms of different and distinct coloured words and number despite never having seen an actual colour ever. I wonder how that would relate to somebody who has been profoundly deaf their whole life?
 
MDPV or Ketamine give me a lot of aural hallucinations if I indulge too much on them. With MDPV its mostly voices, like random syllables forming words. With K, after 2 or 3 consecutive holes, when I come back the PC "talks" in this bleep bleep language, modem talks to the router, mouse lights are heard in the speakers, etc. And sometimes I can ever hear the walls talking to me.
 
I know exactly what you mean, i just went for a walk around the resivour and stopped and sat on a boat on the shore and smoked a joint. I sat for about half an hour until the effects started to diminish, the whole time i was watching dragonflys mate and the water wash back and forwards, the sounds of the birds in my ears. Instead of the normal audible effects i get off Cannabis and other psyches (Kniteforce style pianos over breaks) there was soft theraputic music playing in my head, almost string-like (: I have hardly been smoking over the last couple of days due my GERD, and this was the first fatty ive had in the last week, Done the job i must say (; Peace.

Shambles;- On the blindness thing, I rewatched the documentary posted above again earlier and had forgotten about the case of the blind synaesthete interviewed therein. Despite being blind from birth, when his synaesthesia was triggered the receptors that recognise colour in his visual cortex lit up like a Christmas tree and he spoke in terms of different and distinct coloured words and number despite never having seen an actual colour ever. I wonder how that would relate to somebody who has been profoundly deaf their whole life?

Good post. (:
 
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Our experiences are always based off of something that we can relate to in our personal world. [snip]
 
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The second time I smoked weed(in my life) me and my buddy went back to his folks house to crash(we were 17) and I could hear Korn playing some where in the house. At this point we were both laying down in his bunk beds and I kept asking him if his younger brother was in the living room with a cd playing. Turns out only his Mom was home and she was already snoozing away. I even asked him if his Ma was a fan of Korn and maybe she liked falling asleep to it or something. I was positive Adidas was playing over and over. But it was only the weed. my friend didn`t hear anything.
I also heard birds chirping really loudly when I started to nod out the first time I ate 2 lortabs. Every time I`d start to nod I`d hear `em chirp. Weird.
 
Volundr said:
I have a friend that recently, while on psychs, has begun to compose all sorts of music. He believes that it is a mixture of using sounds from memory and composing from scratch as he tells me that he has composed modern-jazz from scratch as he doesn't listen to jazz as well as fairly derivative psybient after listening to psybient. I'm sure he will post in this thread at a later date to explain in detail haha
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That's me. I'm actually listening to music in my head right now; I'm high as hell. I thought it was pretty normal to be able to listen to sounds clearly in my mind, I too can 'imagine' sounds with the utmost clarity. Interestingly I find it difficult to imagine images with much clarity (unless I'm tripping).

I find that on many substances I either recall or compose music in my mind, as a kind of background to my thought processes. I'm tempted to attempt to learn how to use a music program so that I can recreate some of it.
 
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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.
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I've had this happen before too!

Also, Frank Zappa would surely be a blast to trip to, now that you mention it. %)
 
All of the things over all of the years...it's pretty hard not to hear the music in my head always going...I try to record as much of it as I can translate/catch. It's pretty much one of the main reasons I work with psychedelics in the first place, for all the wondrous melodies, beats, and sometimes whole songs, that spring forth seemingly from nowhere, as if they already existed in full form, just presented through me as a conduit almost. I almost feel like it is related to the icaros in some ways, and the magical melodies taught to shamans by the plant spirits or whatever you want it -- the unknown source...I really do feel that if you hear inner music you should do your best to record it somehow and play it to some people.
 
when i'm high just from weed i always get all kinds of audial hallucinations. one time i remember specifically, i was sitting in a park after smoking a lot of weed, and i could hear what sounded like a concert in the distance. but it sounded very real, like as if it were maybe half a mile away, and the surrounding trees and houses were blocking some of the noise.

i continued to listen to the band play; the music was changing slightly from a jam band style to reggae to ska etc. i was sort of zoning in and out of hearing the music, and when i zoned back in, a different band would be playing, like it would be a totally different style and sound. i remember thinking "dammit, i want that last band to keep playing, this one sucks".

but i also hear all kinds of music in my head when im dead sober as well...

oh and when i tried shrooms everything that was happening had some kind of rhythm to it; i could hear this song in my head that continued to play throughout the majority of my trip, and when people talked it was like they were saying the lyrics to the song, everything seemed to fit the song perfectly... it was such an awesome experience to see all that happen like that.
 
LOL! I always hear the same song when I'm really fucked up. It kinda builds up in a mocking way and I always try and figure out the words cause I know what its sayin but can't remember the words. Um. Almost sounds like mario played backwards.
 
When i trip i often hear someone country accent person speaking made up and random words ... dont know why lol usualy when im coming down
 
When I'm dosed high on LSD or mushrooms, many times I've heard extremely distinct melodies accompanying what I am playing on the guitar.

The first time it happened I was camping with friends, strumming away and heard this awesome melody that sounded like someone whistling, I kept playing and even tried accompanying it. Then once I stopped I was like "Who was doing that AWSOME whistle solo, that was insane!"
And no one around me said they had heard any whistling.

Brains are awesome.

Since I've heard that no one has experienced similar on Phen's I once accidently snorted a little too much 2c-i while at a live show. I more or less couldn't see what was in front of me and ALL the chatter around me turned into sentences that clearly were not being said. I asked a friend to verify. One that stuck out was "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll <insert my real name>
 
This is a great thread. I'm so pleased to know I'm not the only one who hears "ghost radio" (there's a NAME for that?!) in low-level static/white noise. Or music in my head. Or nonsense syllables in the half-sleep state.

One thing I want to say, if you hear music in your head, sing it! play it! write it! I hear beautiful loverly music in my head, but it is often so fleeting and hard to pin down. But like with the above mentioned whistling solo, YOU could have whistled that solo, no? Or remembered it? I dunno.

All this confirms the belief that I've held as long as i've known music- music isn't generated, it is "pulled" out of the air/wind/cosmos/setting. It comes. Just listen for it. Songs write themselves.
 
If someone has a cochlear implant that implies their deafness is due to a defect in the cochlea rather than the brain. Since hallucinations originate in the brain itself, there is no reason why such a person wouldn't be able to experience auditory hallucinations with the same clarity as anyone else. Same goes for blindness and visual hallucinations, provided the blindness is due to a defect in the eye or optic nerve/tract rather than the visual cortex or pathways within the brain.

Interesting to hear (ha...) about your experience though :)


Shambles said:
Also, Derek Tastes of Earwax - well worth a watch cos it is just plain fascinating :)
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Thanks for posting, very interesting! Plenty I didn't already know about Synaesthesia in there :D
 
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