Have you ever had an original song come to you in a dream ?

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If only for a moment.....
Has anyone had a song come to them while they were asleep or woken up with a song in their head ? If so, did it all seem to arrive complete or did you have to do alot of work on it once you were awake ? Were you pleased or disappointed with it when it was done ?
 
Never in a dream, but I've had several just materialize right as I'm waking up or drifting off to sleep, and I think those have been my better songs. I'll either get up and write the ideas down or type and save them into the notepad on my phone.
 
Greg_L said:
Never in a dream, but I've had several just materialize right as I'm waking up or drifting off to sleep, and I think those have been my better songs. I'll either get up and write the ideas down or type and save them into the notepad on my phone.
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Just out of interest, did words come with any of them or was it just music ?
 
Yeah, I don't think most of what happens in my dreams would make too much sense even if I could write it down. . .

I did have an inspiration for a song while falling asleep once - I went out to the piano and 40 minutes later I had the instrumentals ready to record. Doesn't happen very often though. :cool:
 
Yes, one time a few years ago I had a dream, and man, let me tell you; the tune in my dream would have been a hit if I could have got that exact same sound from it. It didn't have vocals on it, but more importantly I forgot the melody when I woke up.
 
The best music I've ever heard in my life has come to me in my dreams. Unfortunately, it's usually way too mind-blowing to come out during my waking life. Of course, if I had the time to sit there and figure it out, maybe I'd have something. There is one piece I came out with in real life that has that dream-like quality to it. It feels good when I play it, and it sounds nothing like any music that I listen to.
 
grimtraveller said:
Just out of interest, did words come with any of them or was it just music ?
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Words and music. My newest song in the clinic "Shit Eating Grin" was written as a I woke up one morning. It basically wrote itself. When it came time to record it, it was like I was doing a cover song. That's happened many times with me. Last summer I wrote a song called "On My Own" while on a 2 week fishing vacation. I had no access to anything. I just had a pen, paper, and my phone. I came up with the riff, arrangement, and words all in my head and just jotted down what I could. I don't know any music theory, but i know the notes on a guitar and how intervals sound, so my notes probably look pretty funny. But it worked. Sometimes there's a lot of time between fish bites. I even tapped out the drums on my lap while sitting there in the sun. When I got home, again, it was like doing a cover song. I had it so clearly defined in my head, it basically recorded itself.
 
brff15 said:
Yes, one time a few years ago I had a dream, and man, let me tell you; the tune in my dream would have been a hit if I could have got that exact same sound from it. It didn't have vocals on it, but more importantly I forgot the melody when I woke up.
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What a bummer!
 
Not in a dream but I had one hit me while I was taking a shower. Melody, words, breaks....The weird part is it took about 3 months, little by little, to finally come out. But it was pretty much what I heard in my head when it DID come out. Other tunes pretty much write themselves but a couple have taken months.
Go figure.
 
Haha, it happened again this morning. Full words and music popped into my head 5 minutes before the alarm went off. I gotta get some scratch tracks down...........
 
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