question: Why do sometimes random songs you haven't heard in a while start playing in your mind?
comment: What you may think as being random isn't actually all that random. Think of your brain as many interconnected memories or associations. When you start playing that random song in your head it's most likely due to something that triggered that memory. Have you ever heard someone say something and you immediate started to think of something completely off topic? That's a great example of those interconnected memories that we all have that were built from our experiences. Word association is a great way to demonstrate this. If someone said "sky" you might think of "blue". There was no reason that you should say "blue". I didn't say to tell me a color nor tell me to describe the sky in any way. These kinds of connections are made constantly and, at times, happen without us even realizing it.
passages: BULLET::::- 1967 - The Executives - "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" / "Don't You Sometimes, Baby, Find That I'm On Your Mind"
  
  BULLET::::- 1968 - The Executives - "It's A Happening World" / "Moving In A Circle"
  
  BULLET::::- 1968 - The Executives - "Windy Day" / "This Town Ain't The Same Any More"
  
  BULLET::::- 1969 - The Executives - "Christopher Robin" / "Summerhill Road"
  
  BULLET::::- 1969 - The Executives - "Parenthesis" / "Got My Woman"
  
  BULLET::::- 1970 - Frank Day Habit - "Hey Man" / "You're Gonna Love Me"
  
  Section::::External links.
  
  BULLET::::- Rhys Clark at Discogs
   BULLET::::- The Stepford Husbands
  
  BULLET::::- "We've Come A Long Way / "Come and Take a Ride in My Boat"" – Get Hip Records – 7" – 1993
  
  BULLET::::- "Building of Love For Sale / "Bag ManTick Tock"" – Cryptovision Records (CR-320) – 7" – 1990
  
  BULLET::::- "Seems Like Years / "Kwik Way"" – Cryptovision Records (CR-310) – 7" – 1988
  
  BULLET::::- "I'm Rode Out / "Seeing is Believing"" – Cryptovision Records (CR-300) – 7" – 1985
  
  BULLET::::- "Why Aren't You There / "Yeah"" – Cryptovision Records (BR-1000-11-1) – 7" – 1984
  
  BULLET::::- The Sultrees
   BULLET::::- "Socks with Sandals" by Footy Scent featuring Hush Puppy – Doug Brochu featuring Brandon Mychal Smith
  
  BULLET::::- "Schooled by Grammar" by MC Grammar – Brandon Mychal Smith featuring Tiffany Thornton, Shayne Topp and Sterling Knight
  
  BULLET::::- "Bracey Girrlz Rap" by Bracey Girrlz – Allisyn Ashley Arm and Grace Bannon featuring Brandon Mychal Smith and Damien Haas with a voice by Audrey Whitby
  
  BULLET::::- "Ketchup on Everything" by Tomatow Sue and the Posse – Allisyn Ashley Arm featuring Brandon Mychal Smith and Doug Brochu
  
  BULLET::::- "Candy Pants" by Footy Scent featuring Hush Puppy – Doug Brochu featuring Brandon Mychal Smith
   On My Mind
  
  On My Mind may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind" (Cody Simpson song), song by Cody Simpson
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind" (Disciples song), a song by Disciples
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind" (Ellie Goulding song), a song by Ellie Goulding
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind" (New Found Glory song), a song by New Found Glory
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind", a song by Jeff Lynne's ELO from Alone in the Universe
  
  BULLET::::- "On My Mind", a 2015 EP by Bend Sinister
  
  BULLET::::- (Baby I've Got You) On My Mind, song by Powderfinger
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Always on My Mind (disambiguation)
   Section::::Background.
   In an interview with the Official Charts Company, he was asked if he expected his output as a musician to be this slow? He replied: "It’s difficult to put out another song when people are still enjoying your current one. It’s a weird one because [September Song] just keeps going. It was staggered as well, so by the time we got going with the next single Passport Home, radio was only just picking up September Song. I feel like everyone's in sync with the new single She's On My Mind, so we'll see how that goes. It'd be great to get another big one in the bag."
   Section::::Promotion and release.:Global album launch.
   In My Mind
  
  In My Mind may refer to:
  
  Section::::Films.
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" - documentary about Patrick McGoohan and the making of "The Prisoner" TV series
  
  Section::::Music.
  
  Section::::Music.:Albums.
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" (BJ the Chicago Kid album)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" (Heather Headley album)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" (Pharrell Williams album)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind 1997–2007 the Best of Bertine Zetlitz"
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind (Is a Different World – A Cheeky One)", 2007 album by The Cheeky Girls
  
  Section::::Music.:Songs.
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" (Antiloop song), 1997
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Mind" (Heather Headley song), 2005
   Generally, racing thoughts are described by an individual who has had an episode where the mind uncontrollably brings up random thoughts and memories and switches between them very quickly. Sometimes they are related, as one thought leads to another; other times they seem completely random. A person suffering from an episode of racing thoughts has no control over his or her train of thought, and it stops them from focusing on one topic or prevents sleeping.
  
  Section::::Associated conditions.
   "A sudden wind made me pull my shoulders to my ears."
  
  "I pissed into the dark."
  
  "It smelled like canned tuna."
  
  "My swollen lip throbbed."
  
  "I could still taste the blood."
  
  "My eyes rolled back looking for memories."
  
  "I stopped."
  
  "I was changing details in my mind, remembering only what I wanted it to be, not what it was."
  
  "I had only a short time to do what had to be done, after that it would all be forever absorbed by my imaginary Jack.""
   Thinking About You
  
  Thinking About You may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Axwell & Ingrosso song), 2016
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Calvin Harris song), 2013
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Elvis Presley song), 1975
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Hardwell song), 2016, featuring Jay Sean
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Ivy song), 2005
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Norah Jones song), 2006
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinkin' About You" (Mario song), 2009
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking About You" (Whitney Houston song), 1985
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinkin Bout You", a 2012 song by Frank Ocean
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinkin Bout You" (Ciara song), 2019
   Thinking of You
  
  Thinking of You may refer to:
  
  Section::::Albums.
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Bogdan Raczynski album), 2000
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Duke Jordan album), 1982
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Houston Person album), 2010
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Kitarō album), 1999
  
  Section::::Songs.
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (1927 song), a popular song written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Bonnie Pink song), 2001
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Earth, Wind & Fire song), 1988
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Hanson song), 1997
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Katy Perry song), 2008
  
  BULLET::::- "Thinking of You" (Tesla Boy song), 2009
   Always on My Mind (disambiguation)
  
  Always on My Mind may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- "Always on My Mind", a 1969 song originally recorded by B.J. Thomas and later recorded by Brenda Lee, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, the Pet Shop Boys and others
  
  BULLET::::- "Always on My Mind" (Willie Nelson album), a 1982 Willie Nelson album that contained, and was named after, this song
  
  BULLET::::- "Always on My Mind" (Houston Person album), a 1986 Houston Person that contained, and was named after, this song
  
  BULLET::::- "Always on My Mind" (Tiki Taane song), 2008
  
  BULLET::::- "Always on My Mind" (Adelén song)
   Section::::Commercial performance.
   Section::::Recording.
   Section::::Interference.:Introversion and extroversion.
   BULLET::::- "99 Bottles of Beer"
  
  BULLET::::- "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"
  
  BULLET::::- "Ti amo"
  
  BULLET::::- "Ievan Polkka" (5th stanza) by Loituma, seen frequently in the infamous "Leekspin" animation
  
  BULLET::::- "The Wheels on the Bus"
  
  BULLET::::- "If You're Happy and You Know It"
  
  BULLET::::- "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
  
  BULLET::::- "Badger Song"
  
  BULLET::::- "Around the World"
  
  BULLET::::- "The Rockafeller Skank"
  
  BULLET::::- "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"
  
  BULLET::::- "Do What U Want"
  
  BULLET::::- The songs on "Breadwinners"
  
  BULLET::::- "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
  
  BULLET::::- "Jack Your Body"
  
  BULLET::::- "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
   Section::::Fidgeting.
   Section::::Background and composition.
   Section::::Neuroscience.
   In My Head
  
  In My Head may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (album), an album by Black Flag
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (Ariana Grande song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (CNBLUE song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (Jason Derulo song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (Loreen song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (Queens of the Stone Age song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head" (Madcon song)
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head", a 1989 solo album by Robert Lamm
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head", a song by Kiss from ""
  
  BULLET::::- "In My Head", a song by No Doubt from "Rock Steady"
   Racing thoughts may be experienced as background or take over a person's consciousness. Thoughts, music, and voices might be zooming through one's mind as they jump tangentially from one to the next. There also might be a repetitive pattern of voice or of pressure without any associated "sound". It is a very overwhelming and irritating feeling, and can result in losing track of time. In some cases, it may also be frightening to the person experiencing it, as there is a loss of control. If one is experiencing these thoughts at night when going to sleep, they may suddenly awaken, startled and confused by the very random and sudden nature of the thoughts. 
   "I haven't released anything for two years but that didn't mean I stopped making music," "I tuned out from social media for a year as well and people started sending me messages asking if I was still alive. I'm definitely not dead, but I don't ever want to create the same sound twice, and it took a good while for me to figure out what I wanted to do after "Urban Flora"," he said with an interview with Complex. "I have a lot of criteria for myself when I make music, and creating something that hasn't been heard before is definitely one of the highest ranking ones.”
   Random Thoughts
  
  Random Thoughts may refer to:
  
  Section::::Music.
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts" (Don Pullen album), 1990
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts" (Faye Wong album), 1994
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts" (Koolism album), 2004
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts", a 2006 album by Shulman
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts", a song by Steve Kuhn from "Non-Fiction"
  
  Section::::Other uses.
  
  BULLET::::- , an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager"
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts", a column by Richard Felder in the quarterly journal "Chemical Engineering Education"
  
  BULLET::::- "Random Thoughts", 5 volumes by the Chinese writer Ba Jin, 1978–1986
  
  Section::::See also.
  
  BULLET::::- Racing thoughts, rapid thought patterns that often occur in manic, hypomanic, or mixed episodes
   BULLET::::- In "Mrs Dalloway", as a plane flies over a shell-shocked soldier: "So, thought Septimus, they are signalling to me...smoke words". The author, Virginia Woolf, recorded in a memoir how she herself "had lain in bed...thinking that the birds were singing Greek choruses and that King Edward was using the foulest possible language among Ozzie Dickinson's azaleas".
  
  BULLET::::- In Margaret Mahy's "Memory", the confused adolescent hero decides "to abandon himself to the magic of chance. From now on his signposts would be words overheard accidentally, graffiti, advertisements, street names...the clues the city offered him."
  
presuppositions: Songs play in the mind randomly. Random songs should not randomly play in your mind.
corrections: Songs that play in the mind are triggered by memories and are not random.  Songs that play in your mind are not random, and are likely triggered by an interconnected memory.
raw_presuppositions: Songs play in the mind randomly. Random songs should not randomly play in your mind. Random songs play in your mind.
raw_corrections: Songs that play in the mind are triggered by memories and are not random.  Songs that play in your mind are not random, and are likely triggered by an interconnected memory. Songs that play in your mind are not random.