Mental events that arise on their own and are not deliberately produced, such as a tune that replays in the mind, writing or movements carried out without conscious intent, and images seen with the eyes closed. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes an experience or action that happens without the person choosing it while they are awake. Deliberate altered states such as hypnosis, and mind-wandering as a state of attention, belong in the waking altered states group. Where an experience is described in both clinical and everyday terms, the member page says so.
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Wikipedia: Earworm
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Earworms are considered to be a common type of involuntary cognition.
Automatic writing (Wikipedia)
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Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing.
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