# Songs about dreams **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706 "2014-01-13T21:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/21 "2014-01-14T05:24:28Z")
The Mamas and the Papas: “California Dreamin’” Simon and Garfunkel: “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” And some from musicals: “Baby, Dream Your Dream” from _Sweet Charity_ “The Sailor of My Dreams” from _Dames at Sea_ “Out of My Dreams” from _Oklahoma!_ “I Have Dreamed” from _The King and I_ “The Impossible Dream” from _Man of La Mancha_ “Wheels of a Dream” from _Ragtime_ ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/22 "2014-01-14T05:34:36Z")
Dream On - Aerosmith ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/23 "2014-01-14T05:50:00Z")
[“I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oD8KSQxGA) - The Electric Prunes ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/24 "2014-01-14T06:42:33Z")
[Conjure One - Endless Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_dEXNTJjG8) _It’s all coming back to me now That strange and almost endless dream Where I was you and you were me You opened up your eyes and I could see That you were falling from the world As aimless as a shooting star in orbit around me Thinking I was somebody else And terrified to look at me and see yourself, well…_ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/25 "2014-01-14T07:16:10Z")
The famous “suicide song”, Billie Holiday’s [Gloomy Sunday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday). ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/26 "2014-01-14T08:35:47Z")
“Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/27 "2014-01-14T09:18:56Z")
“Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven”-Love and Rockets ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/28 "2014-01-14T10:51:25Z")
“Dream Police”-Cheap Trick ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/29 "2014-01-14T11:21:36Z")
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Disney’s Cinderella Once Upon A Dream - Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Once Upon A Dream - Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway Musical) I Have A Dream - ABBA Dreamworld - ABBA Lucid Dreams - Kim Carnes Something Of A Dreamer - Mary Chapin Carpenter Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics Sometimes When I’m Dreaming - Agnetha Faltskog Dreams - Fleetwood Mac When I Dream - Crystal Gayle You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall & Oates Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson Rock n Roll Dreams Come Through - Meat Loaf Daydream Believer - The Monkees In Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues Inside A Dream - Jane Wiedlin Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder (Last night I had the strangest dream…) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/30 "2014-01-14T12:34:29Z")
Part V of 2112 by Rush is a dream and part VI is the aftermath of that dream. ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/31 "2014-01-14T13:39:50Z")
“Dreams” - Sebadoh ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/32 "2014-01-14T21:39:09Z")
Dream Warriors - Dokken Infinite Dreams - Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/33 "2014-01-14T23:14:27Z")
John Lennon: #9 Dream ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/34 "2014-01-15T03:49:49Z")
The first song I thought of was _A Day in the Life._ ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/35 "2014-01-15T18:38:35Z")
Silent Lucidity - Queensrÿche ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/36 "2014-01-15T18:44:25Z")
Going back a bit: [Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_with_the_Light_Brown_Hair) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/37 "2014-01-15T19:14:00Z")
[Dream Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaM-j7pzWsg) - Ministry ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/38 "2014-01-15T19:25:01Z")
_Sweet Dreams_ - Patsy Cline I can think of a lot of songs partly about dreams - _I’m Only Sleeping, A Day in the Life, You Are My Sunshine, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds_… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/39 "2014-01-15T19:57:39Z")
Weird Al Yankovich – **Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White** > **[Weird Al Yankovic - Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White Lyrics | AZLyrics.com](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/stuckinaclosetwithvannawhite.html)** > > Weird Al Yankovic "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White": Doctor, every night I have the strangest dreams Doctor, listen to me, tell me what this means Firs... [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m1UgVuDX0KI/hqdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic: Even Worse - Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1UgVuDX0KI) ---
**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:** [January 15, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706/40 "2014-01-15T20:43:00Z")
Bobbie Gentry’s [Refractions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azMEO7yMts) is one of my favorite songs about a dream. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-dreams/678706.md?page=3)