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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: Hearing Mental Music
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.171430.11732@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Nov13.143857.29453@leland.Stanford.EDU> <83908@ut-emx.uucp> <KPG=M7_@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:14:30 GMT
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- In article <KPG=M7_@engin.umich.edu> darrin@arrakis.engin.umich.edu (Darrin P Cardani) writes:
- >
- >In article <83908@ut-emx.uucp>, james@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov13.143857.29453@leland.Stanford.EDU> bil@cmn14.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt) writes:
- >> >This has happened to me, also, and with all the attributes of
- >> >reality (that is, I at first am not sure I'm not actually
- >> >hearing a clarinet, or whatever, playing in the next room). I can
- >>
- >> I have also had auditory hallucinations of melodies that weren't there,
- >> but this only occurs while I am actually playing and only very rarely and
- >> for a few seconds at most. I am always quite startled by it. It is quite
- >> different from hearing it in your head, I could swear I actually heard the
- >> melody.
- >> --- james mccartney
- >>
- >>
- >
- >I've had this happen, too, but only at night when I'm lying (sp?) in
- >bed. Maybe it's because it's quiet. It's not like a dream, it's just
- >like hearing something that isn't there. It's not always music, though.
- >Sometimes it's people talking and I can make out bits and pieces, but
- >never the whole thing. Kinda weird.
- > Darrin
-
- When I'm in a darkroom (rarely) or out in the country at night, and it's
- REALLY dark, I have the constant phantom sensation of there being light
- in my peripheral vision, and if only I turn my head fast enough, I'll
- see it. But I suspect this is a consequence of too much city living.
- And I suspect that I would hear phantom sounds in an anechoic chamber,
- if the sounds of my own pulse, digestion, and arthritis didn't overwhelm
- the effect.
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