I was writing my pharmacology exam... the question paper had started squeezing my temporal lobe... my memory circuits were frantic to download the eloping answers!
Everybody in the room seemed to be in the same state... and there prevailed an extraordinary silence in that room... as if everybody were in a transcendental meditation... then this thing happened...
A music note was playing in my brain with a stunning clarity (the background music of the tamil song 'engenge engenge' from 'nerruku ner' movie)... it lasted only for few seconds, when i concentrated to hear it more clearly it vanished.
Still the clarity of the music note bedazzles me... is everybody having a hifi music recorder implanted in their brain?
Of late i am practising 'lucid dreaming'. At times in my dreams i could clearly notice a backdrop music playing in accordance to the mood of the scenes the dream machine creating.
I had seen a schizophrenic who had multiple phantom voices conversing to him... suddenly he would sing aloud... when enquired he said... one of the voices is of a lovely female... who sings to him in contrast to other mundane conversing (cursing) voices.. he would start singing to join in chorus with that girl...
I think he is a blessed schizophrenic. others who are blessed with this phantom music, technically called as Musical Ear Syndrome ( coined by Neil.G.Bauman ), are old people with hard of hearing.
Musical Ear Syndrome is almost an auditory equivalent of the visual Charles Bonnet Syndrome, in both insight is preserved.
It is feared that MES would be on the rise in future, in this i pod generation whose ear sockets are plugged with high octane music unplugged!
Musician Robert Schumann had developed this MES after slowly losing his hearing, he used to hear music of phantom Schubert, as he was taking dictation from Schubert's spirit.
Recent studies state that musical hallucination is much more common in sudden bilateral sensori-neural deafness. imagings shows increased activity in brodman's area 39 and frontal lobe middle gyrus.
you could share your views...
Iam going to leave you with one question after each post...
what is ringxiety?
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karthi, during pharmacology exam a music note played in your brain! may i know about the result of that exam and mark scored!!!!!!!! ok ok just kidding......nice article....but i have no such experiences.......
ReplyDeletethen i know little about ringxiety...few months read about it in kunkumam i think..disease related to cellphone......they frequently hear ringtone sound in their ear...is this relates to MES?
while most people driving bike, they will hear their cell phones ringing... they used to stop the bike and took out the cell phone to attend the call... and to their surprise they would find no calls... after all its the playfulness of our own brain ! ringxiety is too common these days... anyway its surprise such an experience has not happened to me so far.
ReplyDeleteo.k, sis.. you got the answer correct... congrats!!
nice read... keep going. needs a good editor though
ReplyDeleteif u have time, read my blog (gardenpeas@blogspot.com)and comment. nothing intellectual there though, mostly crap.
ReplyDeletehi karthi... v nice article.. so far, beware of dogs, now cats too.. u cant hv ringxiety, cos u wont hear wen ur cell s actually ringing..!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteringxiety.. a neologism from ringtone & anxiety.. also called as phantom ring effect & fauxcellalarm.. can also for sirens, horns & crying babies..
dont know before... referred now... tq..
wish u to continue this..
tq... the known anonymous (may i know who is this?) for your comments and saying correctly why I wouldn't develop ringxiety.. as nobody answered for AAT ... i could reveal the answer i think... it is Animal Assisted Therapy were mostly trained pet dogs are used , pet cats could be used too... they serve as a good companion to the lone souls and they could also be trained to procure medicine box on stipulated time and in various ways to help recovered psychiatric patients....
ReplyDeletehi karthi... its me vani.. AAT s useful n autistic n mentally challanged children too...
ReplyDeleteHai karthi! Its me Ezhilmaran. Its a good job! Please continue it! Then what happened to your idea of authoring a sci fi story? Hope it will have a lot of psychological elements.About the 'ringexity', I thought it was the ringtone creating the problem(I'm having the exorcist theme as my ringtone, thought it was the haunting nature of it which makes me to check my cellphone often for ringing)But now may be the 'ringexity' playing the trick
ReplyDeletehi Ezhil... thanks for the comments! more haunting the tone more chance of ringing when it is not actually ringing... but even the mild nonchalant tones kept for long time could also produce the mirage of ringxiety... (why exorcist tone... are you exorcising your own ghost??! :))
ReplyDeleteHai karthi! That theme music is beautiful to hear and Mike Oldfield who composed it won lot of awards for it. You should hear it once! I have also started to blog and you can see me at http://www.rezhilmaran.blogspot.com/ Plese visit and leave your comments.
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