Earworms

I am lightheaded today, I got some brain plague.

After listening to music or getting dragged by a melodramatic scene, then all of the sudden you’ll hear yourself subconsciously humming the last song you heard all through out the day or all through out your journey going to your workplace or anywhere, that’s Last Song Syndrome. Basically, LSS is defined as the repeatedly and subconsciously singing the last song heard but has it reached your mind that there could be a good explanation why this observable fact occurs.

(I can’t find it in wiki so I had to resort into some deep sites for some related articles)

If you are currently experiencing the above mentioned symptoms, then you are having Earworms. Yes, they are called earworms as popularized by a University of Cincinnati professor James Kellaris. A loan translation from the German word Ohrwurm which is a term for a song struck in one’s head. They are horrifying parasites, you can’t get rid of them, you can’t let them go, and there is no cure – perfect for the term earworm.

Other terms for earworm are cognitive itch, brain itch, jukebox virus, sticky tunes, melodymania or the more famous term last song syndrome.

So the next time you got infected by these crappy brain tunes, you can say:

“Oh, I got some earworms! Wanna have some?”