Musical poll: Does this happen to anyone else?

[Killearn Kitties]

I generally have a soundtrack in my head, and what you describe happens to me occasionally, but not as much as it happens to you, I expect.

I always loved the story about the crew who were taking Ranulph Feinnes, the polar explorer, to drop him off at the start of one of his unaided attempts at reaching the pole. They knew that he always had the last song he heard running through his head for most of the expedition, so they made sure that the last thing he heard was a song he hated.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Sometimes they do...or sometimes when I am talking about something I find myself wanting to sing it to a particular melody. Eric and I do that a lot, especially when we are talking about the pets, haha.

Sometimes when I am listening to something I "see" it written out musically on the grand staff, especially if I know the song. Since I've been a piano teacher, I often find myself trying to solve problems in my dreams by using notes, like if I figure out how it's written I can solve it. One cool talent I have picked up from teaching piano is that, even if I never play the song, if I see the music a few times and hear it, I can usually remember how to play it without having the music in front of me- I can remember what the music looks like. This doesn't work with really complicated songs, but I do now have a quite a repertoire of songs memorized from the Faber series.