Research indicates that nine out of ten people have experienced earworms that have lasted for an hour or longer. Once they start, these music memories can repeat uncontrollably-for hours, days, even weeks at a time. They’re sections of songs that we remember in our minds. Suddenly it starts belting out the title song from a certain TV show:ĭerek Drymon: " SpongeBob SquarePants Theme" (excerpt) (1999)Īck! The earworm has awakened! it will now play that same bit of song over and over and over in your mind! What is going on? Is there any hope? Or will the earworm eat your brain?!ĭon’t worry too much if you have “earworms.” They’re not really creepy-crawlies that live in our heads. Then without warning a little band in your brain starts warming up. You’re brushing your teeth and have a nice rhythm going- shuhk-a shuhk-a shuhk-a shuhk. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.It squirms to life when you least expect it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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