your brain plays music before going into sleep?

so remember when you are lying on the bed trying to go to sleep and there's a stage before you actually go into sleep when you slowly stop feeling your arms and legs and your conscious is noticeably deteriorating, you stop conversating with your inner voice and your mind is filled with random images of your life like you are dreaming? my brain have this cool trick that some times it plays music during that stage. My conscious is just barely awake for me to know they are playing. If i try to forcefully wake up most of the information about the melodies got wiped out, kind of like how some dreams feel very bizarre but you could not remember what it is about after waking up. I can still remember a short part of it , whichever part got played before i force myself up, which i used to record into my old phones by humping. My inner voice was also still slightly active during that stage so I was able to try and recognize where irl did i hear these melodies, without stopping the sounds, and I'm pretty pretty certain i have never heard them before. The duration and characteristics of them are very varied. Sometimes its just a short melody in loop (im not sure if its looping was because of me trying to conscious myself to notice the song or not), others it can stretch out like a real song. Sometimes its sound like baroque or something played by Yiruma, rarely it can also sounds like EDM songs. The most distinct instance was when i was having a noon nap. I remembered going to bed around 12am and getting up around 13pm. I didn't sleep a minute. I was listening to those music the whole time, trying to keep my mind in that pre-sleep stage as long as possible, because it was playing a very good French song. I just know it was in French even tho my background is very far away from France and i didnt know a word in French at that time. I remember the song even had a second verse. If you need an example it kinds of "look" like this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYuM_r8cKQ. I used "look like" because it doesnt actually sound like this one, they just have the same slow phase and a feeling of richness to them. If you want a comparison of my mind's producing music to another activity of the body so you can kind of relate to it, it will be like taking a soykaf. Like, your asshole just know there are soykaf to push out and you just let it be push out. my mind during those time feels the same: there are something pushing out and it just keep pushing out. As of now, I think i have lost that ability, mainly, i think, because i have been severely depressed for the last 4 years and my mind has been really fuarrrked up from exceed cortisol production. Back when i was happy I used to be able to hear those sounds every days of the week. I would also love to share some of my humpings with anons to see if it sounds familiar but sadly i left it all in my old phone that broke down.

didnt notice today is april fools. should have waited until tomorrow so anons take me serious. but ive just had a bizarre dream which make me think of the good old days and my lost ability and i really need to write it down before i forget it

Haha wow, I know exactly what you're talking about. When I get it, often it will start out as my brain turning over fragments of songs I've listened too throughout the day over and over while changing them iteratively as I lose consciousness changing beats, changing instrumental styles, taking the melody in a completely different direction until it loses all resemblance to the original piece of music. I don't get it all that often but on nights when I do I usually find I sleep unusually well. Its funny because I'm barely musical at all in my waking life but my half-on brain can pull some absolutely beautiful tunes out of seemingly nowhere just before my consciousnesses drops out. I've occasionally had dreams about listening to some really great music at a show or on the car radio or something and my first thought when I wake up is to try and google the artist's other work. Then i remember that they aren't real and I'm sad. Part of me wonders if, in this case, its just part of my brain constructing a false narrative and that the reason I can't remember any of the melodies when I wake up is because my brain just automatically slots in a <place holder - insert good music here> memory after I've woken up and maybe there wasn't any tune there to begin with. However, the head music phenomena before I go to sleep is definitely real (I can hum along to it). Sorry if this is a bit of a blog post, I've tried mentionng this with some of my more musical family members and I just got blank looks so this is the first time I've seen somebody else talk about it. Kind of makes me wish I'd paid a bit more attention to music academically so I could try writing down the notation of these pieces.

I get a chime-piano kind of thing, can get pretty complex. I'll usually sleep with a fan going but I don't mind it.

Interesting. I've never experienced music like that before.

hypnagogic hallucinations I have them all the time I actually had some yesterday. I was about to fall asleep and i started hearing voices. They weren't really saying anything, It was just a massive noise of people talking. Got creeped out by it and completely woke up. Sometimes i hear familiar voices telling me things. Some times it's simple random phrases, sometimes i's just my name, sometimes i have whole conversations with them in my head. I'd say music would fall into the same category as well, though i haven't really experienced anything like that myself.

think I might have heard laughter simmering outside my door sometimes going to sleep, that kinda deep fried my brain in a few ways. I imagine people move on and things get better

Yes, I experience all sorts of hypnagogic hallucinations like that. One time I remained conscious through the process of falling asleep and actually ended up in a lucid dream. Very bizarre, could never replicate it.

i always hear music. it never stops. pretty much a bug and feature.

>>5416 That sounds pretty cool, its like your life has a soundtrack... Wait, are you the main character of earth?

>>5460 Don't you think the world's greatest game artist ought to be punished for the most effective deforming of reality? Sometimes I don't think I'll ever be free of contextualizing life from all the TV I watched as a kid. Maybe I shouldn't even be trying? Maybe trying is trying to be like Neo following the white rabbit. I like to think I study programs and minds to liberate myself, but maybe I'm still just mimicing what I saw on TV. Still trying to be the protagonist.

>so remember when you are lying on the bed trying to go to sleep and there's a stage before you actually go into sleep when you slowly stop feeling your arms and legs and your conscious is noticeably deteriorating, you stop conversating with your inner voice and your mind is filled with random images of your life like you are dreaming? Yes, but I hate that part, because everything becomes unnaturally silent and the slightiest foreign sound can make me bounce, sometimes showing me a freakylish image for some deciseconds enough for making me soykaf bricks. (That happends during the night). During the morning is different, but awful too, mainly because of some kind of fake dreams where I hear like a lightswitch or a gross bone/flesh hit and my room becomes darker, to then bounce again in surprise. I usually have to use earplugs to fix these problems...

>>5318 >>5319 >>5326 This is extremely interesting. I have never experienced this.

>>5416 Is it music you've never heard before or existing songs stuck in your head? I'm the same, during the day I hear songs I've heard before and sometimes I idly compose music in my head. At night, I either compose music (cause at a certain lower level of consciousness it becomes fluid and really easy to compose) or hear new music I didn't make myself. It's turned out to be useful, thanks to always composing music in my head I can compose music for real more easily. I can never capture songs I hear at night though cause they're too complex.

i've had dreams of original music, my brain tends to think it's a certain song and end up just creating something similar but uniquely different

Yeah, it's a sort of hallucination or entry dream stage. For me I'm always conscious and I have controll over the juke box so to speak. Not a lucid dreamer except maybe once or twice in my life. But that part I enjoy as I can actually play around a bit and make it even "play" a novel melody or sound style like it's coming from an actual speaker. Maybe you can too if you just think of something during that stage. And the more realistic it sounds the closer I know I am to falling asleep. I use it to gauge whether I'm actually tired and about to drift away or not while entertaining myself for a bit until the train arrives. Focusing on a song also helps me blend out any racing thought that can inhibit me entering the sleep phase. Cozy, ngl. But I also sometimes hear voices. Not in a scary way but like if it's a recording of my parent's voice or just some random guy. I hope I'll manage to remember those correctly up to my old age.

>>5634 i think that is what i was talking about. ever thought about learning music theory and write them down?

I've experienced this too, but very rarely. It's usually EDM in my case. The last time I experienced this was a couple years back.

>>5327 This one especially sounds akin to the aural hallucinations that can happen when some people are up too long on stimulants. They tend to be heard in white noise such as fans or running water and have a complex, bell-like/tinkling quality. See the intro of Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys (Brian Wilson got his music directly from such hallucinations, though I think they existed independent of stimulant use): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBKFoeDKJo

I used to experience something like that, maybe something akin to a symphony or what people call Musica Universalis. I mentioned it to my school doctor and after that it faded