: Why do some songs pop up in our head randomly?

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This morning while eating breakfast a song that I didn’t listen to since few months came up in my head for absolutely no reason and that made me wonder why songs or memories reappear randomly, without any particular reason..

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This happens almost every morning to me. I’ve even made a Spotify playlist of all the “Morning Ear Worm” songs.

I haven’t found many patterns but there is one which happens frequently for me.

There is something about the key and/or chord progressions which are very similar to some other song I like, but it usually takes me a few days to connect the dots.

Sometimes it will be two unrelated songs that get stuck in my head for a few days, and when I finally give in and look at the sheet music or watch a YouTube tutorial on how the play the song, it turns out they are incredibly similar.

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