Ever wake up with music in your head?

[saramamalana]

This morning, I've inexplicably woken up with "Careless Whisper" by George Michael in my head. I'm pretty sure I didn't hear it before I went to sleep, so man this is odd. And I know it's just going to be stuck there all day.

I've also had times where I woke up with nursery rhymes or commercial jingles in my head, and I can't help but wonder where the heck they came from.

Am I the only one?

[Scott Plaid]

No, you are not. I often start off a day with a Petshop Boys song. I do not even begin thinking about it, but become aware of it when I wake up. I can not recall which one it is, at this moment.

[fishbicycle]

No, I do it all the time. This morning, it was "Cold Shot" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, only the lyrics were from "Youngblood" by The Coasters - which is when I discovered that the SRV song is actually the Coasters song with a different bridge and in a minor key.

[Anastasaeon]

Every. single. day.

I just woke up a few moments ago, and I have, inexplicably, a song by SPEK, called "Smell the Coffee" stuck in my head, and there it will be, all day. It's not a song I love or hate, it's just neutral to me, and the last time I heard it was oh... let me think... summer 2002, so three years ago.

Yesterday it was Gary Numan's "One Perfect Lie". The day before was, incidentally enough, Pet Shop Boys, "Different Point of View". I could give you a soundtrack. Every damn day there's a new one - and it is often completely unrelated to my dreams, unrelated to anything I was listening to (before I went to bed I was listening to KMFDM!). Sometimes they are songs I love, sometimes songs I hate, sometimes songs that are neutral... but they are never related to what I was thinking/doing/dreaming about. But I cannot recall a single time I've woken up in recent years without a song in my head. It often feels as though it was in my head long before I woke up, as well. They are usually songs that I can guarantee I didn't hear playing in the background somewhere, such as on TV or a radio, as many of them are either not singles or simply due to the fact that we don't often listen to the radio or turn the TV on untilo evening. Weirdness.

[Scott Plaid]

:sings:: "...you're much too kind.......I smiled with murder on my mind."

Does everyone here wake up to PSB? While walking, I start to hear their song "Suburbia", in my head. Sometimes, "It's a Sin."

[NurseCarmen]

The music I usually wake up to is my own. When I'm not working, I try to hop out of bed and play it on my acoustic 5 string bass.

It almost always sounds better in my head. But hey. At least it's not Goerge Michael.

[Anastasaeon]

Originally Posted by Scott_plaid

:sings:: "...you're much too kind.......I smiled with murder on my mind."

Does everyone here wake up to PSB? While walking, I start to hear their song "Suburbia", in my head. Sometimes, "It's a Sin."

Ehhh... PSB is actually acceptable to me to wake up to, and "understandable" for me, since I have loved them for a long, long time. But it's random. I think it's just because Neil has such a pleasant, soothing voice to listen to. I wish I woke up with them in my head every morning, and I'd have no complaints, ever.

Coincidentally enough, Scott, "Yesterday When I Was Mad" is exactly the song that came up randomly as I am typing this. You - get out of my head! Now!

[Scott Plaid]

Ohhhh, what does this button do?

But really, there goes one of my greatest tools. When discussing the motives of historical figures, I have stated that neither I nor the person I am argue with is time traveling psychic, thus we can only say what is likely to have been their motivation, not empirically. I suppose I can no longer use that argument, now that I am psychic.

P.S. Does anyone remember the thread where someone was poking around in a person’s brain? Not literally, of course.

[Little Bird]

I had a dream about trains, then woke up with "The Last Train to Clarkesville" in my head. In fact, it's back again. Oh joy.

[Duke of Rat]

Every morning! Songs I haven't heard or even thought of in years, it seems. And I don't usually remember them later, like dreams. I do remeber waking up a couple of mornings ago to REO Speedwagon, but don't recall the song...just that it was weird to wake up to REO. Not like that's on any playlists or even staions I listen to.

[Clothahump]

Every day. Sometimes the song will change during the day, sometimes it'll last for more than one day. Sometimes it's more than one song, like today.

Currently alternating brainplay in my skull: Those Good Old Dreams, by the Carpenters; Running On Empty, by Jackson Browne; and Reference Point, by Acoustic Alchemy.

[Sublight]

I've woken up twice this week with Belinda Carlisle music playing in my head, which is odd because I have never, at any stage of my life, liked her or her music.

[Thudlow Boink]

I sometimes wake up with mucus in my head. Does that count?

[The Devil's Grandmother]

Every waking has its own tune for me. I'm glad to know it happens to other people. I listen to music nearly all the time, so I think my brain is just trying to make up for the silence of sleeping. Sometimes the wake-up song will stay all day, sometimes it goes away on its won, and somtimes I drive it out with radio as soon as I'm awake (I woke up to My Boyfriend's Back, my all-time hated song last week. Couldn't get rid of it fast enough).

[Scott Plaid]

It seems to me that there are two distinct groups here. Those who have been infected with "Earworms", and those whose subconscious selects their own personal theme songs.

[Fringe]

This morning it was Twilight Zone by Golden Earing. Great stuff.

[rowrrbazzle]

Not exactly. When I was singing in a chorus, occasionally I would wake up in the middle of the night softly singing one of the pieces we were rehearsing. It seemed more likely to happen the closer it was to the concert. This wasn't so much nerves as expectation, and there was probably a bit of the earworm phenomenon to it.

[vertizontal]

Once in college I gradually woke up out of a dream, in which I was dreaming of music. I had a vivid recollection of the tune, with counter melodies and harmonies, and I was convinced it was something I had never heard before, that it must have been created in my head, or inspired, or something. So I got some manuscript paper and dictated what I could of the melody and countermelody, and was sure that eventually I could work it into a full-blown composition for band or orchestra.

A few weeks later I was at a concert and heard a performance of "The Planets" by Holst. And there was my tune.

(Jupiter, I think).

Oh well, I'll just keep my day job.

[DeVena]

Every day. The song this morning? The Dreidel Song.

** wanders out of the thread singing, I have a little dreidel. I made it out of clay... ***

[Shabadu]

I manage an Irish band and listen to them play a great deal. I will often wake up with one of the more annoying songs in my head. I will even wake up to the songs in the middle of the night, but I think I wake myself up to make the song stop. There is nothing like waking up to the sound of something like Tim Finnegan's Wake.

The good thing is that I love Irish music.

[racer72]

I heard a bit of My Sharona a few weeks ago. Now it's on my brains must listen to list except the words have been changed to "My Scrotum".

[Kythereia]

Originally Posted by racer72

I heard a bit of My Sharona a few weeks ago. Now it's on my brains must listen to list except the words have been changed to "My Scrotum".

*splutters drink all over keyboard*

I often wake up with music in my ears (of course, this is mostly due to my radio alarm going off...)--oddly enough, only classical and jazz songs. Can't tell you why.

[MovieMogul]

When I wake up with music in my head, it's usually accompanying the voices, so I tend not to notice the exact tune, so intent am I on obeying what the Master commands...

[jnglmassiv]

I have this all the time.

Lately, its been the same Beastie Boys rhyme all day. Next, day its a new one.
I'm goin' one-twenty plowin' over mail boxes
Radar detector..to show me where the cops is!"

Also, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest music..daytime theme.

[jackelope]

Originally Posted by Little Bird

I had a dream about trains, then woke up with "The Last Train to Clarkesville" in my head.

You sure it wasn't I Often Dream of Trains?

I often wake up with music in my head; sometimes it's a song I already know (I've had "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia stuck in my head for like three days; good lord, how I hate that song), and sometimes it's something I just dreamed up, in which case I'll get up and try to pick it out on the guitar.

[pinkfreud]

Originally Posted by racer72

I heard a bit of My Sharona a few weeks ago. Now it's on my brains must listen to list except the words have been changed to "My Scrotum".

Hmm. That doesn't have the right number of syllables. Is it like "My Sca-rotum" or what?

[Telperien]

Originally Posted by pinkfreud

Hmm. That doesn't have the right number of syllables. Is it like "My Sca-rotum" or what?

This is the funniest thing I have read all day. Granted, it is early, but I don't see this being topped.

I often wake up with music in my head. The earworm I'd had for more than a week was finally ousted by a song I dreamed of while napping..."This Love" by Maroon 5.

I want the old song back, please.

[racer72]

Originally Posted by pinkfreud

Hmm. That doesn't have the right number of syllables. Is it like "My Sca-rotum" or what?

It actually goes "My Scrrrr-otum".


"P P P P Playing with my scrrrr-otum."

[EmeraldGrue]

Originally Posted by Kythereia

*splutters drink all over keyboard*

I often wake up with music in my ears (of course, this is mostly due to my radio alarm going off...)--oddly enough, only classical and jazz songs. Can't tell you why.

'Cause your clock radio's set to CBC Two?

I usually wake up humming whatever I heard the evening before. This morning, though, thanks to a MPSIMS post, it was the Brian Boitano song from the South Park movie.

...that's what Brian Boitano'd do!

[saramamalana]

Whew, I'm not alone! Hoorah!

This morning's tune was O Fortuna from Carmina Burana. At least this one I can explain because the choir I'm in is performing it in a month. Still, sorta scary music to wake up with.

[Duke of Rat]

This morning a made a note to remember..

And the tune? That "Riding Down the Boulevard" song off the motorcycle commercial.

[vl_mungo]

Sure, from time to time... but one thing I've noticed is that on the occasions that I have been extremely hungover, I get the "song in the head" thing really bad. It's loud and goes over and over for hours... sometimes, it is literally the only thing I can think about.

It's hell I tells ya.

[Strinka]

I never wake up with anything in my head. Not a single thought unless I just had a dream, in which case I will think about that but I don't think I've ever heard a song in a dream. It usually does take several minutes before I start thinking anything. I'm on autopilot for that time.

[Creaky]

Oh lord, yes! I woke up this morning with the theme to "Matlock" running through my head, and it stayed there until about an hour ago, when I finally got home and chased it away with several vodka martinis. Shame on you, Andy Griffith, making me drink like that!

[raz]

Yes, every day! It's a pretty recent occurance as I don't remember it happening up until six months or so ago.

Today it was "Back When" by Tim McGraw. But my morning music pick is rather varied. The day before yesterday it was "If You Like Pina Coladas" by Jimmy Buffet, and the day before that it was Hoobastank's "The Reason".

I have been throwing around the idea of making a CD with my morning theme songs. Also, I want to start writing them down so I can find out if maybe, subconsciously, my brain is telling me something about the day ahead of me. That would be cool. But alas, I usually forget by the time I get out of the shower.

I didn't know that this happened to anyone else!

[raz]

Originally Posted by vl_mungo

Sure, from time to time... but one thing I've noticed is that on the occasions that I have been extremely hungover, I get the "song in the head" thing really bad. It's loud and goes over and over for hours... sometimes, it is literally the only thing I can think about.

And also: yes I get that too, but I don't even have to be hungover for it to happen. Sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep I will get a song stuck in my head, and it will not stop playing. I'm one of those people who can't sleep with the TV or radio on, so as long as there is a song stuck in my head I cannot for the life of me fall asleep. It's like the radio is on and I cannot turn it off. I have literally laid awake all night long mentally singing along to Hank Williams or someone because the damn song would not get out of my head. Hasn't happened in a while, thankfully.

[clayton_e]

I used to get up at 5 when it was quiet as death at my place. On those mornings I'd wake up and have a song that was so stuck in my head I could swear it was playing very loud from a stereo in the same room.

Now when I wake up there's daytime noises around, cars, other people, neighbors upstairs etc.. so I guess that's why I don't have songs stuck in my head in the a.m. nearly so often.

[Chimpy]

I have one when I fall asleep and another when I wake up, usually either Dope Hat by Marilyn Manson, Orgasm Addict by Buzzcocks, or something from the Ramones End of the Century album. Of course I then spend the day inflicting my awful voice on my fellows in the shape of that song.

[Furry Mongoose]

All. the. time.

Every day without fail - it changes throughout the day too. It drives me mad - I start thinking of other songs to get rid of the first song - and as soon as that's gone another one is in...

[umop ap!sdn]

Happens to me frequently, sometimes in the morning but if I take a nap in the afternoon/evening it's far more likely that I'll wake up with a song playing in my head, and typically it will be more vivid. Also if I hear one on the radio for the first time in a while and I had forgotten about it, that one will usually be the one I wake up to and there'll be the desire to hear it again and again. (There were several of those recently that were played on the same day, interestingly, and it was a different one each time waking up. )

It also happened years ago, the tune was Without You by Harry Nilsson, and this was right around the time the cover was released (I forget who sang it but it was sometime around 1994). Probably heard the cover on the radio the first time and woke to the original, which must have been familiar at one time and then forgotten.

Originally Posted by raz

The day before yesterday it was "If You Like Pina Coladas" by Jimmy
Buffet,

I'm not sure if Jimmy Buffett covered this one, or if you mean Escape by Rupert Holmes.