# Ever wake up with music in your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203 "2005-04-07T13:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/21 "2005-04-08T00:17:46Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/22 "2005-04-08T00:37:52Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/23 "2005-04-08T01:41:18Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/24 "2005-04-08T05:35:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/25 "2005-04-08T05:44:54Z")
> [@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](http://www.robynhitchcock.com/detail-pages/ioften.htm)? 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. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/26 "2005-04-08T05:46:46Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/27 "2005-04-08T06:10:56Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/28 "2005-04-08T13:39:08Z")
> [@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.” ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/29 "2005-04-08T13:53:28Z")
> [@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!_ ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/30 "2005-04-08T16:06:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/31 "2005-04-08T16:19:47Z")
This morning a made a note to remember… And the tune? That “Riding Down the Boulevard” song off the motorcycle commercial. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/32 "2005-04-09T00:01:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/33 "2005-04-09T00:08:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/34 "2005-04-09T02:44:44Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/35 "2005-04-10T03:07:16Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/36 "2005-04-10T03:13:30Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/37 "2005-04-10T08:23:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/38 "2005-04-10T11:09:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Furry\_Mongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Furry\_Mongoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furry_Mongoose)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/39 "2005-04-10T20:24:06Z")
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… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203/40 "2005-04-11T06:02:27Z")
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. > [@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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-wake-up-with-music-in-your-head/298203.md?page=1)