Music from a dream...

[munkle]

This morning, I had this weird dream. I don't really remeber the dream any more, just that a song kept on playing over and over again. It sounded really familiar in the dream, but I don't think I've ever heard it anywhere else. Because I'm interested in writing music, I tried to write down the melody after I woke up. I know there were lyrics as well, but I can't remeber them anymore. I also had to simplify the melody because I just couldn't remeber it. I was just wondering if any else has ever heard any songs over and over again or ever written a song off of something in a dream.

[Lowercase Society]

by any chance, was the radio on, or had you had a song stuck in your head...or somethin

[CocoDan]

I used to wake up from a clock radio, had an awsome dream once because of the music.

[munkle]

I wasn't listening to anything, unless someone came in my room and turned on my radio then turned it off before I was fully awake. I didn't have a song stuck in my head when I went to sleep either.

[theroguechemist]

I had a dream-construct melody thing a while back, too. I remembered it the morning and kept thinking about it 'cause it was really good. That is all.

[Anodyne]

Interesting. I dream of music a lot. I'm a huge music fan. I love alternative country bands like Wilco and the Jayhawks. I often dream of strumming guitar melodies. I'm a lousy guitar player and I can't write music, but I sometimes dream amazing songs. Weird how that can happen. I only wish I did know how to write music so I could transcribe some of this stuff.

[Blissful]

Try like heck to remember the words and melody. You can tell if you have heard it somewhere else before, being a music lover and all. I believe you probably dreamed big hit!!! Good luck with the recall and if you can't get it back, try to become lucid and command that song again. Blissful

[RedStarSoldier]

I've dreamed music before... really sweet riffs, but now that I think about it I can't remember any of it at all anymore.

[Prometheus]

One time I woke up in sleep paralysis and this song was playing in my head, I was like cool! I listened to the music for about 3 minutes and then decided get get out of paralysis and wake up, as soon as I decided that the music stopped and I was a little bummed. I checked for headphones or any music from speakers and there was nothing, it came from my head somehwere. On a sidenote I do know for a fact a lot of great musicians of history got their music from dreams and writing it down, a lot of inventors in any field that invented anything creative actually...

[Perj]

I have had music videos in my dream due to music. It is amazing because the song can be like 3-8 minutes long and still the idea of the dream is 9 hours long or something. Like it stretches out... its nuts.

[jacobo]

this morning i was having a dream that i was at a fighting convention when this big screen dropped down and this vast song started to play. noone knew who it was so i started singing along with it... then i woke up and that song was playing on my radio... and i was humming it... creepy, i know.

[will.i.am]

I heard music in my dream last night. I don't remember how it went but I do remember thinking about this forum (in my dream) and wonder what you guys had said about music in dreams.

[YULAW]

Yeah Munkle I get that all the time. Im a big Music Lover myself and I know exactly what you're referring to. Like about a week ago I had a non- lucid dream but while the dream was going there was this one song playing in the background. Now I know for sure that I never heard this song before but I knew it was a HIT! I mean the lyrics, melody, and everything else was perfect. And I am Positive this song doesn't exsist anywhere, and that I never heard of it before. But it happens alot.

[theunknowndreamer]

Woah I never had that happen to me. I hope it does though. You will have to play the song for me sometime soon.

[Swifty387]

I too have had a dream about a song, it sounded so sweet. I woke up, ran to my PC and typed the song into finale 2004, i have it now, i could probably use it to write a song, its just a melody, no chords or anything else.

[ffx-dreamz]

welcome swifty

[Swifty387]

I want to believe all this. All these things people say are just totally amazing. I have my doubts, but if what these people are writing is truth, i cant wait till i experience a LD.

[Signet]

I was at a (lame) cover-band concert of Messiah Prophet. They did "Heavy Metal Thunder", and they didn't do well at it. I also had a dream where I wrote music. Actually, the whole dream was basically a music video for the song, which did not exist. Heck, the song wasn't even in a style of music I listen to very much. (2000's pop music.) That was back in middle school. Now I don't really remember any of it but the chorus.

[Amyra]

I once dreamed I was watching a movie and participating in it. I remembered a very distinct part of the soundtrack which stuck with me. I was able to sing it, but I can't write music very well so I wasn't able to write it down. I also had a dream where I was playing the piano and no matter the notes I pressed, I made beautiful music. (I have taken lessons for 10 years.)

[Tenant]

Every piece of music I've ever heard in my dreams is creepy as hell, and they seem to be original music because I can't recognize or compare it to anything else from my waking life. To think that the brain can write music when I have no musical talents myself is amazing.

[Baron Samedi]

Yes. Writing music in dreams is epic llulz.

[LucidDreamer09]

An electronic musician Aphex Twin has said that he has written some of his past music in lucid dreams. I highly recommend anyone who hasn't checked him out do so now

[quassom]

Paul McCartney (former Beatle) said that his number one hit "yesterday" was a tune he got when he woke up out of bed he never said dream but there was probably a connection there so yea I'm sure your not the only one and I'm a big musician myself I got music on iTunes (band name industry standerd album ancient of days) and Im really interested in music in dreams i haven't been able to become lucid with that train of thought going on so I've never been near a piano in a dream but I definitely need to try

[Powerdreamer]

yes, you can definitely hear original, commercial and innovative music within normal dreams: I'm no musician, but I've woken up with tunes and arrangements of finished songs in my dreams [that sound already fully mixed and recorded] that are as good if not better than a lot of material that has sold well in the real world. I've only done this about 3 times that I remembered, so I haven't been prepared with a sound recorder to 'sing' the memory of the tune into a tape-recorder or other similar device before the tune disappears forever, but I wouldn't be surprized if professional songwriters and tunesmiths are prepared for when this happens. I've never tried to write a tune in a lucid dream [it's never occured to me at the time]: the nearest I have got to this lucidly was appearing onstage in a dream and playing guitar alongside Siouxsie and the Banshees [late 70s-early 90s punk/goth outfit] : the only time in my existence I instinctly 'knew' how to play an instrument.....oddly, I had to look at the guitar in order to know how to play it. I even remember the color of the guitar [purple].