Has anyone answered the real question?

'T'is even worse when you are stuck with a repeating tune but you just can't name the darn thing. . . that is truly maddening! And now I even topped that. . . I know exactly what that old piece of music was, but I can't remember what it sounded like if my life depended on it. . . am I suffering of incipient senility perhaps?

No fair, no fair. . . my tune has no words, but it's ma' right to play this game too! [stomping of old slippers. . . snuffling sounds of old geezer having major tantrum fading away. . .]

Mak, all it means is that you are deeply into music. If music pervades your life, it will also pervade your thoughts, and even your dreams. Not only music plays in my head during the day, but often I hear music while I fall asleep, and not infrequently I even dream complete musical dreams, complete with orchestra, choir and soloists. . . it's like making up your own opera. . . lots of fun! G.

yes Mak, that's exactly what can happen to me, especially when falling asleep, or during REM sleep. I hear/make music, which is vaguely related to stuff I must have heard, yet it is also uniquely different. The problem is, that when I wake up the music is usually gone, and I can't really recall it to any precision. . . This lack of recall is very annoying and frustrating!

During the day I may have melody fragments in my head repeating and repeating. . . but they are always bits of stuff written by someone else. Sometimes I know exactly what they are, other times I can't associate the music with a title. Back in April I took a one week trip to Brazil for work, and for the whole week I had this piece stuck in my mind. . . I was sure it was a fugue by Bach, but I could not remember where I heard it, if my life depended on it. When I came back to Austin I actually forgot how it sounded completely. . . which really bugged me to no end. Just recently I discovered it is the Prelude to the 5th English Suite by old J. S. Bach. It was actually your very musings about music in your head that prompted me last week to finally rip the track from my CD and use it as the Windows Start WAV file. Now I hear the 1st 10 seconds of this great piece every morning at 6:45 when I start my machine in the office. Thank you mak!

Mmakshak, you have something really going this time. . . I trained in fact as a music composer while at college. Exercise became rather impractical when little pencilled black notes started to disappear from in front of my eyes in lates 70s. Gave music a rest for almost a decade. . . than it all came back with avenge in the terrifying form of a massive attack of Audiophilia Nervosa. . . still in progress of course!

Let's Go for it MRT, time to sell our systems. . . then you can concentrate in writing virtual equipment reviews. . . and I can concentrate on ranting about stuff that I have heard only in my wildest audiophilic dreams.

MMAKSHAK, Yeap. . . sure did! G.