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?
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.
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.
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.
: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.” 
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.
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! :eek: 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I sometimes wake up with mucus in my head. Does that count?
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).
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.
This morning it was Twilight Zone by Golden Earing. Great stuff.
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.
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.
:smack:
(Jupiter, I think).
Oh well, I’ll just keep my day job.
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… * ***
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.