I dream of songs!

[djowens123]

I often have songs in my dreams and when i wake i have to think... is it mine or is it a song i have heard before somewhere?

Worst thing is... i've usually got to get up and go so most of them get lost.

 

How about you?

[Stackabones]

If/when they come, I wake up and get them written down or recorded. Recorded is easier: I just use my Flip vidcam or fire up the Zoom, get the idea down, and then go back to bed.

 

You know that's how McCartney got Yesterday ... "Scrambled eggs / baby you've got great legs."

[dannysigma]

 

You know that's how McCartney got Yesterday ... "Scrambled eggs / baby you've got great legs."

 

 

Obviously, given the plural, not written for Heather.

[captain kazoo]

i am an amazing piano player in my dreams. on par with rachmaninov or beethoven. i'm a very ordinary guitar player in my dreams. bang out chord stuff.

in real life, i'm a pretty damn good guitar player and i've barely touched the piano since i was 8.

i can't really remember much about the songs i write in my dreams, although a few days ago i had a dream where i was reading an article where ani difrance used one of my lines in one of her songs. at first i was like "yeah, no big deal, i'm just that good", and then i realized that it was pretty major and i almost wept with pride. then i woke up and felt weird about the whole thing, and i couldn't remember the exact line. i got the gist of it written down, though.

[Lee Knight]

I'm going to get me a little digital voice recorder. The little 30 buck ones. Just to document this stuff. I've been regressing / evolving into my 19 year old self lately. I can't stop writing.

 

Dreaming, driving, at work, cooking, in the bathroom, opening mail... my mind is in the muse clouds all the time lately.

 

Get yourself a recorder, Lee.

[tbry]

A recorder on the night stand would sure help me...if I don't get it down its gone...

[Jecaklafa]

I always dream of music. It is usually most intense when I am in the hypnogogic stage and falling asleep. Usually people have visual hallucinations but I always hear melodies and sonic textures. My main goal as a musician has always been to turn these into reality. Attaining the capability is very difficult but someday I will be able to do it perfectly!

[Bodyguard2112]

I have a blank sheet of paper and a pen waiting on my desk, and a guitar standing by. I wake up, and immediately play out and write down what was in the dream.

 

If you later find out it exists, then throw it away!

 

Usually, for me, it does not.

 

I have a huge file now of stuff started this way.

[A Happy Crowd]

I don't know how you guys are able to do this! Whenever I dream of music, I'm either a) too tired to record it, or b) unable to remember it upon waking.

[xdrummer]

I've forgotten some of the best songs I composed....simply for lack of a way of capturing them. Many came to me at night (perhaps as a dream or perhaps as I lay waiting for sleep to come)

 

A few years back I bought a small digital recorder to keep next to the bed.....and I now capture many ideas that I use to lose. Since then I bought a few more to keep in the car and in my office...to quickly capture ideas. Now if I could only remember to change the batteries before they die.