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Auld Lang syne
Identifier
001336
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Hospital psychosis! Presumably this is another thing thought up by those who can’t be bothered to find out the real cause – the poor chap is going deaf, they may even have damaged his ocular nerves in the hospital who knows………. I despair... an observation from wisegeek
A description of the experience
I am a 72 year old man who has been hospitalized several times in the past year. During one stay I began hearing about 4 bars of Auld Lang Syne sung over and over. I called my nurse to put an end to it and she called two others including the head nurse. No one else could hear the music.
During a subsequent stay, I began hearing all sorts of music, a lot of which I hadn't thought of in year and some of it World War II music. The same bars play over and over. This is not a case of a little ditty that I think of in the morning and stays with me during the day. This is something I can't stop. I was told I had hospital psychosis.
I've been out of the hospital a couple months now and recuperating very nicely but the music continues. Right now, Auld Lang Syne has been playing for at least an hour. I can change the song by thinking of another and then the new song will play repetitively. Fortunately, it's not bad music and it's not very loud so I can put up with it.