Exactly Leeder. It's almost like the song is someone elses and you are merely the listener tapped into it. It's as though something other than ME is doing this.

Many times a don't have my mind on music at all, but there is a radio playing in me head. Sometimes I'll slow down my thought processes, and just listen to what is going on. The music is playing all the time whether I like it on not, much like a noisy neighbor next door. You are not really inviting the experience at all but it is there playing 24/7 whenever you want to listen or not listen to what "IT" is doing.

It is is the "it' here that I am speaking of, not merely the slow and gradual development of ideas. Developing ideas is one things, having comeplted entire plans handed over, is the something else I am speaking of.

Sometimes I get musicals ideas TOO. But when I am listening to complete songs that are not authored to me at all, I find this kind of spooky. Sometimes, I agree tunes can come into one's head that are NOT original. I have had this experience many times with songwriters too. ( I also do this on ocassion myself) They sing their song only to find out later that sub-consciously it is someone elses.

The completeness of the experience it what I am interested in. And its sounds as though other do this too. I am just wondering where and how it comes to be!

Dewey