# Sometimes I hear flashes of music while semiconscious

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hear-flashes-of-music-while-semiconscious/159942>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 8, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hear-flashes-of-music-while-semiconscious/159942 "2003-03-08T18:36:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hear-flashes-of-music-while-semiconscious/159942/41 "2003-03-10T16:27:28Z")

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i just wanna restate to all of you who experience things like this more than occassionally…if you also suffer from daytime sleepiness… go see a sleep doc cause you could well have narcolepsy, which is a treatable sleep disorder - there’s no need for you to put up with feeling that way

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hear-flashes-of-music-while-semiconscious/159942/42 "2003-03-10T16:52:56Z")

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The first time this ever happened to me was a few weeks ago. I was sort of half-awake, and I could hear inside my head a really sweet original composition on acoustic guitar.

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**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-hear-flashes-of-music-while-semiconscious/159942/43 "2003-03-10T17:23:02Z")

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I compose entire rock operas whilst in this state. Not sure why, but just rock operas. They are always ground-shakingly stupenous and and aural wall of emotion, and I think to myself that it would be really good if I could remember the tune when I wake up properly.

But of course I never do. Probably just as well, likely as not they are incredibly lame in the cold light of consiousness.

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