I hear music.
That may not sound unusual, especially in this days of being connected. You no longer need to be near a radio, if you have any kind of device you can stream, watch or listen to music from just about anywhere.
But I mean I hear music in my head fairly constantly. Not just ear-worms, although I have my share of those as well. Rather, bits and pieces of songs that seem to be randomly triggered.
I suppose some of that is due to working in radio, and some due to over forty years of listening to and collecting music. Surprisingly, none at all due to any kind of musical ability or training. I can't play anything on anything, so the music I hear in my head isn't new. Instead, it's song fragments that get triggered by hearing a song title, or a memory trigger and sometimes (ok, mostly) by no reason that I can fathom.
Music has great power to connect with you emotionally, or to trigger memories. So I'm guessing that it's no great leap to think that certain memories contain within them the music that was happening at that time.
Everyone I've met has a soundtrack to their life - not in the movie sense that music is used to evoke feelings. But that music can recall feelings and memories - ask any couple that has 'their song.'
My soundtrack is filled with songs from the radio when I was on car trips, album tracks from being at home listening to music with friends, and other odd songs hear in passing or from not-very-popular albums that I bought over the years.
I think everyone's soundtrack is unique and personal and lives in both their heart and mind.
I have to go now, "Life Of Illusion" is playing in my head.
I love that song.
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