Does anyone hear music in their dreams?

[zgp3]

I've heard orchestral arrangements, lyrics, and raps. Some of the most beautiful music. I feel I should be using these gems but I don't know how?

 

[lasheenadrinkwater04@gmai]

Yes sometimes I do. It's never really any lyrics but I hum the tune

 

[Eldros]

Yes. Not long ago, someone close to me died and I had a dream in which I was in a restaurant with loud talks - everyone sitting at tables, and every table was nearly full.
In the background, Tom Jones' song - The Green Green Grass of Home was playing. At one point, my phone rang and I heard the voice of the person who died.
I left the restaurant and went up some stairs where there was less noise because I couldn't hear him clearly.
But by the time I got there, the signal had been lost and I couldn't hear him at all.
Then I woke up.
Is there any significance?

 

[Nembra]

Sometimes, but it's rarely good music. Also, I find that perception of beauty is a feeling, it can be hallucinated without anything of actual substance.

 

[marginalia]

In my dreams, no, no recollection of music. However, I often “hear” symphonic classical music - original compositions, as far as I can tell, and often with a discernible leitmotif - in the hypnagogic state between waking and sleep. I am not a musician, nor do I play any instruments; I do, however, listen to lots of classical music.

 

[Eldros]

Sometimes, but it's rarely good music. Also, I find that perception of beauty is a feeling, it can be hallucinated without anything of actual substance.

Maybe an experience isn't real only because of its external reality.
Not everything meaningful has to exist outside of us.

 

[Nembra]

Maybe an experience isn't real only because of its external reality.
Not everything meaningful has to exist outside of us.

My point is that in dreams rather than perceiving music and judging it as beautiful the mind will instead make a shortcut and simultaneously evoke a perception of music and a perception of beauty. If recalled without the hallucinated awe, the piece itself often appears banal. This effect actually extends over images, poems and often whole histories, though I've tested it most extensively in music as it's my main area of academic expertise. It is possible and not even that rare to encounter genuinely profound objects in dreams, but distinguishing them requires some emotional distance.

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In my dreams, no, no recollection of music. However, I often “hear” symphonic classical music - original compositions, as far as I can tell, and often with a discernible leitmotif - in the hypnagogic state between waking and sleep. I am not a musician, nor do I play any instruments; I do, however, listen to lots of classical music.

Classical as in Hochklassik style or classical as in vaguely orchestral? I sometimes experience something similar, only I seem to be able to guide the melody as it goes. It's most often baroque polyphony or something pompous and romantic. However, after inspection, the instrumentation and form seem to be pretty much nonexistent, a bit as if it was merely a distant memory of a piece. It's also always very generic in style.

 

[Eldros]

My point is that in dreams rather than perceiving music and judging it as beautiful the mind will instead make a shortcut and simultaneously evoke a perception of music and a perception of beauty. If recalled without the hallucinated awe, the piece itself often appears banal. This effect actually extends over images, poems and often whole histories, though I've tested it most extensively in music as it's my main area of academic expertise. It is possible and not even that rare to encounter genuinely profound objects in dreams, but distinguishing them requires some emotional distance.

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Classical as in Hochklassik style or classical as in vaguely orchestral? I sometimes experience something similar, only I seem to be able to guide the melody as it goes. It's most often baroque polyphony or something pompous and romantic. However, after inspection, the instrumentation and form seem to be pretty much nonexistent, a bit as if it was merely a distant memory of a piece. It's also always very generic in style.

I get what you're saying. The experience's meaning at that moment might matter more than the music's profundity. I found meaning in the song, the voice, and our sudden disruption.
Maybe dreams don't make common things deep, they might show us what's become important to us.

 

[Phillian]

I haven't had one of these sorts of dreams in a while, but whenever I have, I both love them and at the same time despise them. The reason why I love them was because in those dreams I would hear myself singing; it was not my voice, but it felt like a vocal range I could achieve. Whenever I woke up from those dreams, I felt empowered to explore my vocals and try new things, or attempt to mimic the dreamself vocals. At the same time, there were musical dreams where I was listening to music I had never heard before and felt familiar and mesmerizing, making me not even question if I was in a dream, but actually believe I was living that moment... These sorts of musical dreams are the ones that I do not fancy much because I feel sort of "trapped", is part of the reason why I dislike when I have realistic dreams, as it makes it hard for me to distinguish if it is reality or a dream... In fact, when my dreams had contemporary music was even more believable that I was "awake", which made me often sleep over to when I woke up realise the music I was listening to in the dream was from the radio or my cellphone.

I do not know if there is any meaning behind dreaming or hearing music in your dreams; I never investigate much on that topic. But this is my experience with music in the dream world.

 

[Nembra]

I get what you're saying. The experience's meaning at that moment might matter more than the music's profundity. I found meaning in the song, the voice, and our sudden disruption.
Maybe dreams don't make common things deep, they might show us what's become important to us.

At the pragmatic level dreams operate with a very primary palette of sensations which includes admiration - even without the need for anything that would indirectly evoke it. What do we think does that mean when it happens is also interesting but it's a different matter entirely - one of interpretation.

 

[Eldros]

At the pragmatic level dreams operate with a very primary palette of sensations which includes admiration - even without the need for anything that would indirectly evoke it. What do we think does that mean when it happens is also interesting but it's a different matter entirely - one of interpretation.

Yes, I can see the difference.. The feeling of depth could not be essential to the item, but instead something a dreaming mind produces.
Maybe the dream still says something, but not that the song is deep, but that it grew to mean something to me on an emotional level.
Probably the song's meaning can be found in the connections my mind made with it than in the song itself.
Although what I experienced wasn't absolutely deep, maybe that's what gave the experience meaning.