Is it normal to hear/create music in your dreams?

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As long as I can remember, I've dreamt to a sound track. Music that doesn't actually exist but is GREAT.

It should!

Anyway, I'll be in the middle of a dream and hear lyrics in gibberish and the melody.

Sometimes itll turn My dream into a movie trailer and it'll just be the action, horror or other genre type melody.

I usually enjoy the sounds so much, it wakes me.

IIN

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  • nowhereboy
    11 years ago

    I have hallucinated songs that my mind has just created from nowhere.

    It's fucking crazy how this is even possible.

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    • nowhereboy
      11 years ago

      Oh and my dreams are always narrative, as if someone is telling me a story.

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  • NoraBaker
    11 years ago

    Based on my experience, I say it's quite normal. I've had that happen with several other forms of art and etsy.

    Specifically, a costume I was designing for a ballet and couldn't concoct during waking hours until it appeared beautifully worked out in a dream; costume jewelry items that came to me that way as well; ideas and visual concepts for other objects and garments; but the most treasured and similar thing to creating music that used to happen was related to writing.

    I would wake up still either hearing a voice saying the words or see the full sentences written on pieces of paper, usually in my own handwriting. Those dreams have given me some of what I consider the most delicate, sensitive, deepest words I've ever written. ;)

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    • FrancoisDillinger
      11 years ago

      Awesome. That's really cool!

      I also like to design structures and will sometimes see them in a dream and translate it to paper.

      I read somewhere that the sewing needle and the periodic table were created in dreams.

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      • NoraBaker
        11 years ago

        Structures? What kind of structures, if you don't mind my asking.

        I remembered something else. My subconscious has gone as far as making up new words. Haha. Once I woke up to my father's voice, in a solemn tone, explaining, in another language - and I'll try a translation here:

        "It's not quite like that in this 'finnestrepic' case."

        I've been using that sentence for years. When things seem somewhat questionable, it's what I usually go for, with a "Mm..." and *suspicious single eyebrow raise*

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        • FrancoisDillinger
          11 years ago

          Thats cool lol and I dont mind at all.

          They're usually houses, businesses, and bridges.

          I wanted to be an architect as a kid =D

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          • NoraBaker
            11 years ago

            Cute. :) I love this post. I also like that it's yours, as we're occasionally bumping into each other around here and it's pleasant every time!

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            • FrancoisDillinger
              11 years ago

              Thank you =)

              I enjoy our interactions and your posts too.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I occasionally do. So does Paul McCartney. The story is that "Yesterday" came to him in a dream and he didn't want to release it because he was convinced it was a song he'd heard somewhere else and that someone else had written, when really it was his dream state that wrote it.

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    • FrancoisDillinger
      11 years ago

      That's very interesting! I didn't know that.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        I just had a vague panic that I'd made this up so I did some fact-checking. It's true, yeah, and apparently McCartney went around recording studios for ages, asking if anyone had heard it before.

        Although I notice that silly Wikipedia says the song is about a break-up with a girlfriend, when most people think it's about the death of Paul's mother.

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  • Avant-Garde
    9 years ago

    Same here. I've had more musical dream visions since realizing that music is my true passion. I had an amazing dream where I was performing in front of people on some type of stringed instrument and I created the most beautiful song on it. I was improvising it and it was wonderful.

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  • CollegeIsNotAsAwesomeAsIImagin
    11 years ago

    ever listened to Tiësto's Adaggio for strings. Do it right before you sleep with the eyes closed. Best dreams ever

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    Some of my best compositions came from dreams.

    Infact, I read that Shakira's song "Hips Don't Lie" came to her in a dream.

    This is a good thing.

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  • Ldizzy1234
    11 years ago

    I do this a lot too.

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  • DannyKanes
    11 years ago

    I do this too. I always wake up with a different song in my head :)

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