Thread: Music from a dream...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

welcome swifty

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.

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.

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.)

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.

Yes. Writing music in dreams is epic llulz.

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

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

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].