Why a Song Stuck in Our Head

I was travelling to my university, listening to just dance by Lady Gaga it’s my favorite song now a days, when on comes “Just Dance, Gonna Be Okay”, By the time I pull into my university parking lot, I had, ” Just Dance, Gonna Be Okay ” running through my head. I hum it at my way to campus. I sing it on my way to the classroom. I tap it out on the table during wait for the lunch in cafe.

Why do songs get unconsciously stuck in our heads?

Same like this sometimes we listen to any song it stuck in our mind. Now the thing is why actually this happens? Experts say the culprits are earworms (An earworm is any part of music that sticks in one’s mind so that one seems to hear it, even when it is not being played). Now you may think it’s kind of parasite. No, they’re not parasites that crawl into your ear and lay some musical eggs in your brain, but they are parasitic in the sense that they get lie in your head and cause a sort of “cognitive itch” or you can say a sort of need for the brain to fill in the gaps in a song’s rhythm.

Brain Kept in Rest:

When we listen to a song, it directly triggers a part of the brain called the auditory cortex. Researchers found that when they played part of a familiar song to research subjects, the participant’s brains kept singing long after the song had ended. The only way they found to scratch brain itch is to repeat the song over and over in your mind. Unfortunately, like with mosquito bites, the more you scratch the more you itch, and so on until you’re stuck in an unending song cycle. There are songs too who are seriously itching like I got one and that is songworm.

Song worm:

A Songworm is an annoying song that you hear once and it replays itself over and over in your head until you are ready to commit suicide. Later in the day, you think you forgot about it and before you know it, it’s in your head again, and you may even find yourself singing it. The only cure to get rid of a Songworm is to catch another, more annoying Songworm in your head.

In Researcher’s View:

I have discuss one otherwise there are many other theories about why songs get stuck in our heads. Some researchers say stuck songs are like thoughts we’re trying to suppress to anyone. The harder we try not to think about them, the more we can’t help it out. Some experts claim that earworms are simply a way to keep the brain busy when it’s wandering in our thought’s valley.  Just as there are many theories. But again a questions why some songs stuck and rest are not?!