How to get rid of a song “stuck” in your head?

I don’t know about you, but I have a problem: I’ll hear a song, and it will become attached to me. I hum it to myself all day. At first it's cool, and then it starts to piss off.

I tried to find ways to get rid of the annoying song, re-read articles on a bunch of sites, talked to many forums. And yet I found several ways that I want to share with you.

Most likely, you are not humming the whole song, but only a few lines of it. This is the Zeigarnik effect: a person remembers better material with an unfinished action, and mentally returns to it to finish.

• Sing your song out loud (almost shout) out loud.

The brain will immediately receive a signal that the song has already worked out material and will occupy itself with something else.

• Sing your song in a whisper

So you switch your brain from broadcasting the melody to playing it.

• Solve a crossword or puzzle

There is a danger here that the crossword puzzle will be too easy or difficult. In either case, the melody will return. Choose yourself a crossword puzzle on the border of comfort and acceptable difficulty. Sudoku puzzles and five-letter anagrams help the best.

• Soviet student method

If a song has become attached, then you need to sing only a few lines from the old anthem of the USSR:

The unbreakable union of the free republics

Great Russia rallied forever,

Long live created by the will of the peoples

One mighty Soviet Union …

The motive you all know. True, there is a danger that instead of an attached song, you will start humming the USSR Anthem, which is also not very good.

Most likely, the brain will switch to the plot of the book and forget about the song, but not the fact.

And finally, a list of songs that, according to foreign studies, most often get stuck in the head:

Alejandro – Lady Gaga

Bad Romance – Lady Gaga

Call me Baby – Carly Rae Jepsen.

Single Ladies – Beyoncé

She Loves You – The Beatles

I Wanna Hold Your Hand – The Beatles

SOS – Rihanna

You Belong with Me – Taylor Swif

Russian scientists did not conduct such studies, which is a pity.

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