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Does anyone recreate music, movies, or storylines...

Chance

Chance

"all who wander are not lost" - Tolkien
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I got to thinking about this... Yes thats dangerous, but its what I do, a lot, a whole lot it seems.

I had started to make this post at an earlier date and cant find it... Now I'm praying I didn't post it and forgot I did... If so, chalk it up to Chance to screw it up... I won that prize already today, so... anyway...

I have this glitch habit... I recently started noticing it more and more, but I guess I have always done it.

I will hear a song, or watch a movie and in my head (or on paper), I can rewrite it and even like my version better. Who knows whatever it is that grabs my neurons and convinced them to do this... Pure insanity maybe? But its fun, and it steers my thoughts away from stuff sometimes. Kind of like the Fridge/juggling thing... : ) Most people just said Huh???

Does anyone else re-write songs or scripts? I have no idea why I am asking... Just trying to turn my thoughts from where they are trying to go and so far... I'm keeping the door to darkness closed on a bad day (a string of bad days really). But it will get better... I know this.

However right now, I'm in one of those funks where I got too tired to sleep, and my brain is making more noise than a coon hound that treed a squirrel... Fun times in Neverland (not so much but lets pretend).

I suck at pretending... and I have to be back up in about 5 hours. I wish I knew what triggers this in me... Its pretty random. I did this last winter, and sort of went way too long without sleeping until I crashed and slept for 23 hours. I don't have that option right now, so this isn't really a good thing, but when you cant sleep... you cant sleep.

New meds? Just crazy? or just me... : )
 
And thinking about not being able to sleep makes it even more impossible to sleep.
I have nights like that especially if I know I have to be up at a certain time and do a specific thing.
Can't shut the brain down from thinking about it, how I need to do whatever is coming up the next day,
and of course..."You've got to get some sleep." As the hours go by and the pillow doesn't feel right or
the blanket is crooked or the clock is ticking louder than normal or, or, or...

But, yes, I've done this with songs in particular.
Since I need music constantly, I will take some song that reminds me of something else in my life and
re-write the lyrics to fit my situation. It is for amusement.

An example: I used to play tennis a lot with my ex-boyfriend. We played with a group.
A new woman joined the group one day and my then boyfriend started going out with her and lying to
me about it...you know the story.

So the song " Love is a Battlefield " plays on the radio all the time.
It just came natural to change the title to The Tennis Court's the Battlefield and re-wrote the lyrics.
Chorus: ...We aren't young, heartache to heartache we stand,
No promises no demands...We aren't strong, no one can tell us we're wrong,
Searching our hearts for so long, both of us knowing... The tennis court's the battlefield. :mad:
 
I can't say I change the lyrics, but, sometimes I will have trouble understanding some of them, and I will sing whatever the gibberish is that I hear, even if not actual words. I have been struggling with the same difficulty, falling asleep, of late, and yesterday I was provided with a remedy, by my therapist, and I believe it worked. In case you wish to try it out - breathe, slowly and steadily, from your abdomen, and keep your focus on your breaths. Repeat 20 times. This brings oxygen to the amygdala, and calms it down as it relieves it of all the thinking and analyzing of information, emotions and what not, that we can have a hard time shutting off. Either it was a fluke, or, it is in fact, effective, as it worked for me, when I utilized it, last night. I hope you sleep well and have pleasant dreams.
 
Loren said:
I can't say I change the lyrics, but, sometimes I will have trouble understanding some of them, and I will sing whatever the gibberish is that I hear, even if not actual words. I have been struggling with the same difficulty, falling asleep, of late, and yesterday I was provided with a remedy, by my therapist, and I believe it worked. In case you wish to try it out - breathe, slowly and steadily, from your abdomen, and keep your focus on your breaths. Repeat 20 times. This brings oxygen to the amygdala, and calms it down as it relieves it of all the thinking and analyzing of information, emotions and what not, that we can have a hard time shutting off. Either it was a fluke, or, it is in fact, effective, as it worked for me, when I utilized it, last night. I hope you sleep well and have pleasant dreams.
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It works for me. I've tried that when I want to meditate.
 
I start from triggers and branch off. Not so much music, but if I see something in a film, or on the news, or just something that happens, I'll continue the story in my head. I'll play it vividly and sometimes it messes with my memory and I'm not sure which bits actually happened and which bits were my, what's the word, elaborations? Extensions?
 
It's one of those things you started to do but have no idea when ;) I've been doing it since I can remember. I wouldn't call it insanity, a quirk of character maybe. It's just something I do and it's fun. Can't see anything wrong with that.

Honestly, I think I'd get insane quicker without it. And if I don't catch enough sleep because of it... Well, I don't get enough sleep anyway but at least this way is nicer.
 
I do this with words a lot, place names, etc, I change a letter to make a different, alternative word, so I often have alternative names for things.

Music - I once had a vivid dream where a band was playing, but it wasn't any song that I know - so did I make it up?? Or perhaps it was an old, buried one that I remembered in the dream. It was strange.
 
Chance said:
suck at pretending... and I have to be back up in about 5 hours
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Time to get up.

Most scenes in the shows have to be predicted.
Even the jeopardy final question became guess the answer from the topic before the question comes up. As well as guessing what they will risk.

Mostly ..

It's any sentence can be sung at any point of the day.
Just doing normal stuff there's a high risk of song.
Whatever song is chosen you have to make up as many lyrics based on the topic.

For example.

Pass the salt . - becomes rock the boat

Most are pretenders songs at the moment.

Got change. In pocket. Going to the mall.
Going to spend some ,spend some,money.

So not much to do with not sleeping but all the other times..
 
Chance said:
I have this glitch habit... I recently started noticing it more and more, but I guess I have always done it.

I will hear a song, or watch a movie and in my head (or on paper), I can rewrite it and even like my version better. Who knows whatever it is that grabs my neurons and convinced them to do this... Pure insanity maybe? But its fun, and it steers my thoughts away from stuff sometimes. Kind of like the Fridge/juggling thing... : ) Most people just said Huh???

Does anyone else re-write songs or scripts? I have no idea why I am asking... Just trying to turn my thoughts from where they are trying to go and so far...
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I have an obsession with mapping chord progressions with my piano keyboard. It's truely my number 1 disease of my life... At this stage I have mapped a dominant 1-4-5 progression on this mp3 file below.

Hard Days Night 1st verse loop New Melody.mp3

So while I am listening to this song progression on an endless loop. I am improvising new progressions that over powers the looping 1-4-5 progression mp3 file that I am listening to.

By mapping out what goes with, and what complimentary chord progressions override my looping mp3 track, I can attain choruses, bridges, and other verses from other keys.

I need to be able sing & play new ideas, while listening to this looping track. I can play out of key chord sequences, that rival the looping track. Giving the illusion of a real recorded song. Once the looping track is erased, your are left with a real song.

How to explain this tethered method, borders as fractile music theory. The mapping is 10 scales with complimentary chords, which I labeled as grids.
The project is new, and will be posted on a YouTube channel called " self piano reflex "

It is the deluxe insanity of my life!
 
Well it makes your brain work so dont be ashamed of it that's pretty cool, maybe you could try to use that for something else? I dont know about your life but maybe you can actually do that?

I dont know if its on the same level but sometimes I "create" rock sounds like that in my head and I create some lyrics etc, but its always just a thought, sometimes its an entiere mmo game design or the story of manga...

But also sometimes it is related to reality and real problem solving.

And like you sometimes I have my own version of things in my head like video games or movies and I often think ( and its not realy a long thought process, it is instantaneous), like I know the detail that would have made a story a billion time better.

But I don't know if I do that as deep as you doo, never wrote it down, well, actually yesterday I thought about a tv show I could call the "behinders"

A story of people being partially rejected from reality when they were born and because of that they developped some special abilities , they are somehow behind the reality so they can bend it to some degree, it sounds a bit like heroes or xmen but they are not mutant and visually their powers wouldnt be too impressive ( like no fire or super strenght or things like that, but more like phasing ,shifting time and space , tricking mind, stuff like that ) and It would have the same start as any mutant story with people being rejected because of their differences but it would developp into something like a thriller because the real deal would be that some of them are already bending reality to their will in order to control the world and others would be against that ( conspiracy theories and stuff like that )

That's not the most developped idea that came in my mind but things like that comes and goes in my head for no reason many times a week , in a few sec and I never wrote them down , here I can talk about it because I only wrote the word " behinders" on a paper so I can remember it.

It's a bit like day dreaming right?
 
Thanks to all of you...
I did fall asleep and woke up late, so... I guess I better get ready to roll a little harder to catch up.

I figure it all works out one way or the other... not going to get upset. I have finally got to that place where I simply don't allow time, or people, to crush me like they used too. I figure if I am truly creating my reality by the thoughts and choices I make... then I will choose a little different thoughts and grow into them a little at time.

I am going through a huge amount of changes and its good but hard. My life is so different than it was just a year ago, that I don't even know whats going on some time, but its better than what it was. : )
 
About the sleeping maybe talk to a doctor about it? There are some sleep aids out there. I wouldn't suggest anything addictive like Ambien but I have used Benadryl successfully and don't feel like its habit forming. I just take it once in a while when I feel sleep is more needed.
 
Agree, thinking gets dangerous.You can come up with something new and wonderful the NTs haven't thought of yet.

As for music, I have always had the ability to play back something I like (and occasionally something I don't) in my head. It can form a background music while I work. This may be an ADD trait, trying to make the brain busy enough so I don't get distracted from the task at hand. It never happens when I am in hyper focus.

I can take a movie and put myself into different roles, but I don't indulge in that too often. Too much effort to be truly relaxing.
 
A long time ago, I used to play with Star Wars figures and recreate scenes from the original trilogy including the Princess Leia slave girl scene from Return of the Jedi, as played by the late Carrie Fisher.
 
I rewrite songs sometimes to fit a situation -- change the words or alter the key and add stuff in (usually i just change the words and keep the tune the same).
 
Yeh, sometimes.

I might have a rhythm stuck, maybe not stuck but I can’t get past it.
Is it called an ear worm?
The same tune or rhythm playing over and over and over.
I use words whose syllables bounce along with the tempo.
 
Not really, though I used to have play wrestlers and conduct tournaments with them pretending they were WWF wrestlers.
 
Gracey said:
Yeh, sometimes.

I might have a rhythm stuck, maybe not stuck but I can’t get past it.
Is it called an ear worm?
The same tune or rhythm playing over and over and over.
I use words whose syllables bounce along with the tempo.
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Its even worse when its something you dislike... for instance a stupid commercial, or some corny song that isn't even logical...

Now for a SPECIAL TREAT!!! Its torture time...
I cant believe I did this, because its gonna be in my head for a week!
I like and hate this song at the same time... Its complicated... : )

 
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