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I am not sure about this. If you stare at anything for long enough you get peculiar effects in your vision (try it).

That said, in the last year or so I have begun to enjoy music from the extractor fan in our kitchen. Each time it is on I hear a random genre of music - plain chant, brass band, jazz, etc. I don't experience it in any other context (or any other hallucinations before you ask). Anyone else get something like this?

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I once had a friend who said that his brother could dance to any "music". This included the sound of oil being heated in a pan. I also have some flashbacks sometimes, when I hear familiar sounds and I sometimes see things in a fractal structure (this plant is especially trippy: https://naturgarden.hu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/A-tuja-gon... ).

Now that I mentioned the extractor fan...have you listened to Sleep Research Facility's music? He made music out of the sound of broken fans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SleepResearch_Facility

Thanks they are great, I will be ... I am using those at my desk. Reminds me that the 24 hour working factory behind our house when I was very small stopped their night shift. I am told I didn't sleep through the night for a fortnight. Maybe there is a connection.

This kind of thing was referenced, comedically in the UK TV series Spaced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk

Yes, same here. Your brain is trying to find patterns, make sense where there is none.

It also becomes more prevalent when using mind altering substances.

I discovered a fridge in a supermarket with a very pleasant humming tone. I went there often just to hear it and even tried to record the sound with a shitty mp3-player but it was unsuccessful.

But it was just one genre, music by an artist like Stelladrone or similar.

A fridge (compressor) in a studio I lived in often made me hear Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (sad song in the game "Homeworld" or the movie "Platoon"). I think it hummed at the frequency of the long note then slowly shifted in pitch similar to the three-note patterns that follow, or something.

I can experience something similar with the ventilation system in my apartment. Usually, the sound of it is immersed in the background noise together with other sounds coming from the outside, so most of the time I'm not aware of it at all. However, sometimes when I meditate I hear it and if I focus my attention on it, after a while it becomes clear and loud, rich and versatile, not unlike a music played on a wind instrument.

I do get auditory hallucinations in other contexts (usually while sleepy) but yeah, anytime there’s some sort of drone like a microwave this happens to me. I have always felt terrible that I never really learned an instrument because it’s nice having a free source of compositions to draw upon!

I've had same experience with one old Prague escalator in city center which played rhytm from amazing Sicario soundtrack, it was pleasant ride for that minute

When I am in the shower, I hear all kinds of music, usually classical, I hear people talk, birds whistle etc. In our car aircon I hear jazz. It is kind of nice.

Yes, the noise from my clothes dryer sounds exactly like a Deafheaven song, whenever I dry my clothes I get that song stuck in my head for ours.

Actually sorry, it’s my air humidifier that sounds like deafheaven. My dryer sounds like a Pink Floyd song.

Lol, I thought I was the only one to hear music from extractor fans!