Lalelou123

Well, I think games imitate life somehow. A fun game is one that is kind of a challenge, but easier to achieve than in real life. Games are a quicker fix though and failure isn't that serious...although who knows what or if there is something behind death. Maybe there is just a game over sign and you are send back to replay. So yes, life is a game. You learn so many skills, do so many things. If you do them mindfully and be present, then life feels more fun and fulfilling. There are even apps you can use to add a score to it like Habitica. Tackling life is the groundwork for fun - you do things because they feel great and don't do things, because they feel terrible, and sometimes you do things to feel bad at first and proud afterwards. You level up and down all the time. There are rules everyone has to follow and who does it well achieves more.

I have that too. I tried so hard to get my 8 hours of sleep and felt so tiered all the time that I tried to sleep even more. Than I started to shift my sleeping time week by week and write how I felt the next morning. 0:00-5:30 is the best for me. If you feel well rested, just go on with it. Some people do better on less sleep. It might even be in our genes.

For me it just got better on it's own to be true. I mean, if I heard music "behind" the real noise like the fume cupboard, I stopped that noise and made clear, that there is actually no music playing. But in your case, it's different. You take songs with you on the go and you already tried to sing them out. Hmmm...maybe you could try to laugh about it and tell them to someone? Maybe you could purposefully introduce music again. I would try to take ten minutes a day aside and listen to meditation music while meditating to it. It could put your monkey mind on ease for cases, when there is other music, because you introduce meditation with and without. Therefore you accept music into your life again and it's not special anymore. It's just a theory though...

I have nursery rhymes in my head a lot of times. That's far worse - but luckily I can ignore them. They just come up, when I'm walking or do not much at all. For a little explanation - I'm a nursery teacher and I think, that my mind just overcompensates for silence. It all started with a noisy neighbor, which made me wear headphones and listen to my own music for some time. When I finally moved and had my silent time again, I started to hear music, which wasn't there. (That's how bad it was) Like when I turned on the fume cupboard. It got better over time - but the nursery rhymes still are an issue from time to time. Did you quit music?