Music playing in your head?

Pet_Sounds · 10-11-2014, 08:02 PM

Have you ever had music just start playing in your head? I was just dozing off to sleep an hour ago and suddenly heard the third movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony just start playing. I can normally "think" a melody, but this was the whole thing, and it just came. My brain seemed to be channelling the ambient sounds in my room into the music. Anyone else had this happen or heard of it?

**Frownland** · 10-11-2014, 08:07 PM

I usually have some nonexistent free jazz song I'm making up while I get my walk on.

Pet_Sounds · 10-11-2014, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I usually have some nonexistent free jazz song I'm making up while I get my walk on.

Jim Morrison once descibed writing songs as "taking notes at a fantastic rock and roll concert going on in my head". Doesn't seem too different from what you're doing. Check your inbox BTW.

Moss · 10-17-2014, 07:25 PM

I'm not sure there is ever a time when a song is not going through my head.

Neapolitan · 10-17-2014, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

Have you ever had music just start playing in your head? I was just dozing off to sleep an hour ago and suddenly heard the third movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony just start playing. I can normally "think" a melody, but this was the whole thing, and it just came. My brain seemed to be channelling the ambient sounds in my room into the music. Anyone else had this happen or heard of it?

Sometimes I dream of music I never heard before in real life. Really good stuff too. I wonder if earworms while you sleep seem more audible than when you are awake.

Key · 10-17-2014, 10:37 PM

On this topic, I pose another question? Does anyone think of a calming song to play in your head so you can sleep? I do that almost every night. It surprisingly helps.

Overcast · 10-17-2014, 10:43 PM

I hear entire songs full of details in my head all at once, but I'm always too impatient to take the time and try to translate it into the real world with instruments I have laying around. It's nice to hear when it happens, though... it feels amazing like all of the emotions and thoughts running through my head decided to start a band or something.

Black Francis · 10-17-2014, 10:48 PM

Most times im consciously thinking of a song in my head and if it's a song i know well i can hear it very clearly.
On rare occasions though if im listening to one cd over and over or a video game soundtrack for a long period of time the songs unconsciously pop into my head.

On multiple times ive heard the music in skyrim outta nowhere

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Sometimes I dream of music I never heard before in real life. Really good stuff too. I wonder if earworms while you sleep seem more audible than when you are awake.

Me too, sometimes i dream im making a song that sounds awesome but when i wake up i completely forget it.

Dylstew · 10-18-2014, 04:06 AM

Usually when that happens, as soon as I notice, it stops.

grindy · 10-18-2014, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

Have you ever had music just start playing in your head? I was just dozing off to sleep an hour ago and suddenly heard the third movement of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony just start playing. I can normally "think" a melody, but this was the whole thing, and it just came. My brain seemed to be channelling the ambient sounds in my room into the music. Anyone else had this happen or heard of it?

I have this all the time and it's extremely annoying at night.
I often can't sleep because of it.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I usually have some nonexistent free jazz song I'm making up while I get my walk on. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Moss Scuttle Buttin' Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Boulder Colorado Posts: 972	I'm not sure there is ever a time when a song is not going through my head.

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Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	On this topic, I pose another question? Does anyone think of a calming song to play in your head so you can sleep? I do that almost every night. It surprisingly helps.

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Overcast . Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: . Posts: 1,531	I hear entire songs full of details in my head all at once, but I'm always too impatient to take the time and try to translate it into the real world with instruments I have laying around. It's nice to hear when it happens, though... it feels amazing like all of the emotions and thoughts running through my head decided to start a band or something.

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Dylstew Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,366	Usually when that happens, as soon as I notice, it stops.