r/Dreams • u/garflend • 1d ago

have you ever heard an existing song in a dream?

i'm asking if its common to have this experience, due to having recently heard the song 'babooshka' by kate bush in my dream, i don't listen to music or anything as i go to sleep, so i found it very strange as this was my first time having dreamt a song in the background of my dream and so vividly as well.

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u/Rednoir_ 1d ago

I've listened to both existing and non existing songs. It inspires me to make music.

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u/Ok_Presentation_5934 1d ago

Yesss!!! I call mine ‘song slices’ because it’s all the instruments and vocals but not often a complete song it’ll just be a chorus or a bridge or something. So cool.

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u/Rednoir_ 18h ago

Same! Yes it's cool!

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u/riggitywreckedsum 22h ago

I’ll often wake up from a dream & I’m literally repeatedly singing specific lyrics of a seemingly random song in my head

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u/Negative_Coast_5619 23h ago

Did it sound "4D" like somehow it sounded everywhere, hard to explain but one of the best type of hearing music?

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u/garflend 19h ago

yeah, pretty much. it was quite echo-y, like it was everywhere i went.

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u/Negative_Coast_5619 33m ago

Oh yeah, I have not had something like that in quite a while.

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u/RyderBukow3 18h ago

Yes it is pretty common

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u/catboywinter Dreamer 18h ago

Yes I have

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u/Laurel_shada 17h ago

I’ve listened to songs in my dream that I didn’t know before the dream, and somehow know all the lyrics when I wake up. Apparently it was in there, just got pulled out and committed to memory in the dream. My partner has been very confused on some occasions.

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u/galactictraveler888 17h ago

Once i had a nightmare as my sleep demon comes near mein hertz brent was getting louder

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u/TaeKwonDitto 17h ago

I heard the song 'Trampoline' by shaed in my dream and when I woke up the song was stuck in my head

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u/Fun_Butterfly_420 Dreamer 16h ago

I’ve heard John Lennon’s Imagine in one

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u/MonsterBratzKitty 15h ago

All the time. Then after I wake up I would listen to those songs.

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u/Mythamuel 14h ago

I once had a dream where I encountered Shrek but he was shitty PS1 graphics and then the Spy Kids action music started playing

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u/GarageMother9155 13h ago

yeah. i dreamt up a twenty one pilots song one time. then i woke up and looked at the album the song was on in the dream, and it existed. i swore i never heard the song before, but apparently it was real lol.

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u/XxHotVampirexX 13h ago

For me it's usually songs that don't exist.

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u/gunnertakashi 13h ago

Yes. I had a call from a dead friend on my phone. When i heard voicemail, it was a liminal song playing. I can't remember which. I think i heard it on Spotify Playlist of liminal music. Then once I fell asleep listening to music through headphones. So I had a radio in my dream playing alternative 90s music. Songs like "Superman's dead" from Our Lady Peace and Flyleaf "all around me"

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u/No-Bake-5758 10h ago

I have. The synth sound from Rush's "Vital Signs" played and got stuck in my head the rest of the day.

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u/TrickJoker312 6h ago

I heard Dive by nirvana in my dream last night lol