Jim Baumbach

"I was alone while my husband was traveling. I play piano a bit and was working on a Shubert piece that had many chords and a pronounced rather hymnlike rhythm. It began to play in my head and eventually became quite intrusive. I needed to exorcise this demon tune and I decided to use another piece to drive it out. I used a favorite bass aria at the end of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. I find it immensely moving: mache dich mein herze rein. The singer wants to bury Jesus’ body in his heart—a weird concept. I can’t remember the Shubert piece now but the Bach aria has begun to play now in my head. It worked , by the way on the earlier occasion "

"Hmm, so I do get 'earworms' but that is basically me singing/humming a song/piece of music I have heard silently in my head - I am not hearing it as if I am listening to the original artist performing it. So does that classify me with auditory aphantasia?"