Thread: Is it possible to hear music in dreams? Like full songs or parts?

One of my fave things to do in lucid dreams is going to my music room (which is easy since nearly all my lucids start in my house), reaching for some records from the shelf and listening to them. I usually find the records that i own in real life, but playing them always sound different, with my mind making up all sorts of amazing sounds and melodies. Often they are totally new songs that i've never heard before. It's amazing what your mind is capable of.. the experience of music can be very vivid in the dream. But sadly the memory will fade very quickly when i wake up.

Yeah! I listen to music all the times in my dreams. I usually listen to songs that I know in real life, but sometimes so hear music I haven't heard before. Your mindis very powerful. I know a few people who have heard music in their dreams and made it a reality.

Yes, music in dreams is actually quite common. I believe that the subconscious tends to hear certain songs, or has a certain song stuck in your mind so much, that you tend to hear it in the dream. depending on the mood of the dream thst is.

Every dream I have contains a soundtrack, typically music I know from real life. Additionally, each song is accurate, note-for-note, word-for-word. I wake up and the dream may fade but the song continues and may even play in my head all day.

I wonder if that could be an element useful for attaining or stabilizing lucidity?

I truly love my dream music. When I wake, it's literally like having a radio in the room, the music is so clear in my head and doesn't fade. I seem to have a great ability for retention of music.

Yes, I have experimented with this in lucid dreams I had a few years ago. You often hear the music that you expect to hear but it could be slightly different or kind of distorted. I quite often seem to make up music in non-lucid dreams as well but then I can hardly ever remember it upon awakening. One question I have for more experienced lucid dreamers is how high have you had the "volume" in your dreams? I really want to dream up a huge guitar amplifier and see if I can attain extreme, ear shattering volume.

I was once watching a music video on a HD screen tv in a dream. It was the wrong song however. It was the Gorillaz feel good inc wideo but the song was DARE. So well yes you can hear music in dreams.

Well as stated by enough people already it is possible to hear music in dreams. I even hear things normal within dreams, it just is that I don't remember unimportant sounds so that my dreams seem "silent" when I remember them. Unless it is one of those few music dreams, I have once some months, these dreams always make a completely new track out of my mind and they usually are awesome, I can even recall them after waking up and still like them. It's definitely one of my targets to use lucids to listen to dream music some more.

Just the other night I had this dream that I was standing on this bridge looking up at castles in the sky and I could hear this enchanting female soprano singing this beautiful opera but for the life of me I CANNOT REMEMBER IT. I know I'd never heard it before - that's it! Honestly how could I be so moved by something and not remember how it went?

"is X possible in dreams?" Yes

I don't hear much music in dreams, but I hear it a lot while falling asleep. If I see a musical instrument in a dream and try to play it, it usually makes a horrible sound.

Originally Posted by noodlehead

Just the other night I had this dream that I was standing on this bridge looking up at castles in the sky and I could hear this enchanting female soprano singing this beautiful opera but for the life of me I CANNOT REMEMBER IT. I know I'd never heard it before - that's it! Honestly how could I be so moved by something and not remember how it went?

Dreams tend to be remembered a lot different than real life things, it's not that uncommon to actually forgot something that had a lot of impact, just not the impact itself. I had the same many times, also for dreams with singing and music. The only thing that can help against this are notes, or even better some recording of you imitating the sound for example. While it may sound stupid it'll allow you to properly search your memories for it, and then after digging it out a few times in waking life you should have gotten it to "save on the harddrive". Generally you should put some effort into remembering dreams if you want to have the pleasure of not forgetting these things, I have a link to the Dream Recall Compendium in my link, there are a lot of techniques which may help with dream recall.

Dream music is amazing! For a while I was frustrated because I have no musical training and thought I had no way to record it, but then I remembered the voice recorder app on my iPhone, so now whenever I have a fragment of melody on waking up, I make sure to record it right away. Some of the melodies are too complex for me to sing or hum properly, but I've captured quite a few by this means.

One of the most interesting and unexpected applications of music, I discovered, was in dream control. When trying to accomplish some task, I often find that if I spontaneously start singing (not trying to control the music or words, but letting the dream itself inspire them), it helps me focus and accomplish the task more easily. I've found this especially helpful in situations that start to seem threatening: singing can quickly defuse the tension and transform the encounter, or else help distract you from the potential for negative emotions.

I am a musician and many times over the years I have dreamed of a song that I'd written in a non-lucid dream only to have it fade from my memory moments after waking. Very frustrating. Maybe one of these days I'll write one in a lucid dream and hold on to the memory long enough to write it down when I awake. Paul McCartney claims to have dreamed the music to Yesterday, woke up with it in his head and thought that it was was a song that he'd heard before. He played it for many people in an effort to find out who's song he'd heard in his dream. No one had ever heard it before so he put lyrics to it and the rest is history! To be so lucky.