Posted by Ritch on January 9, 2003, at 9:45:36
In reply to Re: Auditory hallucination » Ritch, posted by viridis on January 9, 2003, at 1:24:15
> Interesting -- when I experience auditory musical hallucinations it's generally something unearthed from "deep" memory (i.e., some piece of music I haven't heard for years). I also hear people calling my name occasionally. Apparently the latter is especially common with auditory hallucinations induced by lack of sleep (the only situation in which I've experienced this phenomenon).
Hi, I get "old" musical memories that will come to the surface and "intrude" as well. They just make up the minority of the incidences. The older stuff tends to come up more when I haven't been listening to any music for awhile. For sure, however, the level of elevation of my mood is absoutely directly correlated to the quality and quantity of the musical "memory phenomena". If I get very depressed there is very little of it to remark about. There is more to it than a memory extinction problem it also is more of a *sensory* extinction problem. If I forget to take my Depakote (i.e.), or I reduce the dose, or I am unusually hypomanic or sleep-deprived, my alarm can go off (with the annoying beep beep), I can turn it off and still "hear" it continuing to beep for varying amounts of time afer I switch it off. The "volume" is diminished and then it finally quits after a few minutes (at most). My theory is the signal transduction is "over-facilitated" and doesn't die off like it should. The neurons keep firing repeatedly in the absence of the stimulus. SSRI's aggravate this worse than anything, esp. Prozac. Wellbutrin "switches" it from musical to verbal rumination (changes from right to left temporal lobe?).
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