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I'm glad you shared your experience because I've dealt with this for decades. It's usually a small snippet, 15 seconds or less, of a song that just loops over a
by crent 1y ago
I'm glad you shared your experience because I've dealt with this for decades. It's usually a small snippet, 15 seconds or less, of a song that just loops over and over for me.
What I do to combat this, and other "brain noise", is also to listen to music but I use headphones with high volume. I also listen to the same playlist repeatedly so it's not distracting and instead quiets that loud part of my brain to allow me to focus.
- threecheese 1y agoSame. It’s five seconds of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” looping over and over and makes me want to crawl inside a blaring tuba to drown it out. When people mention “intrusive thoughts” this is what comes to my mind.
- jaymzcampbell 1y agoI'm relieved to know from reading this thread I'm not completely crazy. I have the same thing, a very, very short snippet just repeatedly "playing". I become very conscious of it at various moments and try to "change the track" to some other repeated snippet. I've yet to find a pattern to which track is next.
- thewebguyd 1y agoSame, but instead of the same playlist I'll put the same song on repeat while working. It really does quiet the mind and lets me focus.
- chrisweekly 1y agoSame. I posted upthread about my flowstate playlist, optimized for tracks to put on repeat for focus. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585365
- chrisweekly 1y agoStrong recommendation to use noise-cancelling instead of high volume. Hearing loss sucks! Protect your ears!