Somnicomposing

[A. BETTIK]

Right before you fall asleep there seems to be a twilight time inbetween sleep and awake that is neither but both.

Sometimes when I am there, I can compose masterpiece works of orchestral music and actually hear them. When self awareness of the fact that I am hearing this occurs, I immediately wake up.

Anyone else experience this or something similar?

 

[alden]

Never done that, but it sounds awesome.

Do you do anything musically while you're awake?

 

[A. BETTIK]

No. My template would be that I played cello in High School and casually listened to orchestral music growing up like the Greatest Hits of 1790 and KMFA. I have no sustained interest to compose and no talent for it except for these occasional dreams.

The best I can describe the experience is in the movie Mozart when Antonio Salieri picks up some of Mozart's work and is able to hear it in his mind to the point where he drops the music he has become so unaware of his surroundings. Only I can't read music awake or asleep and hear it.

 

[YChang]

You may find this book interesting:

Oliver Sack's Musicophilia

The human brain is amazing, one of the stories in the book involved a doctor who was struck by lightning. After that incident, he suddenly had a strong interest in music and "heard" music in his head. Before you know it, he learned how to play in no time and composed his own stuff.

 

[AuburnTexas]

Yes. I have had this happen to me on occasion. Not on a regular basis though. I thought my house was haunted because I could really hear the music.

 

[OldHippie]

Yes. I have heard songs in my twilight sleep but I am not a good enough musician to then get up and play them out. They always sound really cool when I hear them though. Mine are not orchestral but folk songs.

 

[FondrenRoad]

It used to happen to me regularly. I managed to play 2 of them on the guitar. At least as well as I could remember them when I woke up. Neither were too good. I really expected them to be awesome, so maybe I got them wrong after waking.

It hasn't happened to me in years now.

 

[Upgrayedd]

I can't compose music, but in that half-waking state I have written literary masterworks. (I am a writer by trade.) I only wish I could remember them.

 

[HornMitch]

I actually am a composer of "classical" music and this happens to me every once in a while. It's frustrating to me because the stuff that happens in my sleep is much more rhythmically complex than the stuff I actually write. I only wish I could remember it and get it down. Oh well. I do think it's cool that this happens to others of you, too. Who knew.

 

[Natron]

I have a different form of 'music' that goes off during that twilight moment.
I am a programmer and when I have been wrestling some code all day that I just cant seem to get, there is this magical moment right before sleep where it all makes sense and the solution is uniquely trivial.

Then I wake up and its still the same ***** as before