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Subject: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 03 Feb 02 - 03:12 PM I've been meaning to ask this for some time, and this is the time. Every morning, without exception, when I wake up, I have a song rolling around in my head, and it often bugs me all day. This morning it was the Loch Tay Boat Song, yesterday, it was Inches & Miles. Is my unconcious mind trying to tell me something? Is this a common thing with music lovers? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: GUEST Date: 03 Feb 02 - 03:29 PM New ideas on how to best troll mudcat |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Jeri Date: 03 Feb 02 - 03:42 PM Coffee. Seriously, Kendall, I often wake up with some song in my head, but I forget it after I'm awake for a while. Either that, or it gets replaced by another song. I used to have problems going to sleep because I'd have a song playing in my head. The problem was that it bothered me. When I quit being irritated by it, I had no problem sleeping. For some reason, Fielding's "Gin Mill Syncopators" is playing in my mind a lot these days. It's just fun to sing, even if it doesn't mean the same thing to me as it does to Rick. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: leprechaun Date: 03 Feb 02 - 03:53 PM Light |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: DougR Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:24 PM I think it's pretty common Kendall. I generally have one song or another running in my thoughts most of the time. I was told one time by a vocalists that if you ever get stuck with a song you simply can't get out of your thoughts, just think of Onward Christian Soldiers. Of course then you might have to figure out how to get that one out of your thoughts ... DougR |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:28 PM *shlurp* *shlurp* *shlurp* The sound of my wife, making coffee! .-) |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Tweed Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:35 PM Lately it's been "Muddy Waters Live at Newport". I'm ready for any morning rush hour traffic after that....Bring on the blue hairs and school buses;~) |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:36 PM A cat's arse in the face usually works..... yum. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:37 PM Quite often it is something that slipped in while the TV was on and I was asleep. I tend to forget this and the other day, quite early as I was getting the kids ready for school, making coffee, scratching my nuts....the usual morning things, I found myself singing: Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee gimmee gimmee that thing. Remember that POS? Later in the day I heard it on a commercial, but at the time I was totally mystified as to what had sparked this memory of something well worth being suppressed!!! If any of you are now stuck with this "song" squirrelling around for the next two days, blame Kendall......He asked! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Justa Picker Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:38 PM Either a very strong rudder (with no ship to sail), or my 6 year old announcing "Dad I need juice now!" |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Feb 02 - 04:59 PM Yeah, I love the kids......You wake up and they are about a foot from your face........"Dad.....Dad.....Dad.......Dad......." The weirdest thing said that I ever woke to was my wife saying, "Pat?.....Pat?.....Honey?.....Pat?...There's a bowling ball stuck under the Honda."..........Completely bizarre. I thought I was dreaming. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Nemesis Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:16 PM Usually my bladder- after a scant 6 hours sleep..and stumbling to the loo for the past three days 'Pleasant and Delightful chorus 'And the larks they sang melodious .. and the larks they sang melodious .. and the larks they sang melodious..'' This morning however, it was a rather pleasant and delightful dream about Martyn Joseph whom I saw last night :) |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Feb 02 - 05:30 PM I woke up this morning with that bloody awful 'lion sleeps tonight' going on in my head..... and a cat's arse in my face.... he has no manners. LTS |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Jeri Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:06 PM On my face, my sleeping face, a cat's arse sits all night, ohgoaway, ohgoaway The smell of someone else cooking bacon at a festival campsite. I remember when folks would holler and ask if you wanted some, even if they didn't know you. People don't do that very much anymore. So was there a bowling ball under the Honda, Spaw? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:14 PM A quim away, a quim away..... (students of Old English should now be crying with laughter........) LTS |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:27 PM Actually Jeri, there was! MINE! The boys had evidently taken it out of the bag and were rolling it around the garage!! Karen had gotten it stuck between the body and an axle strut. The ball was NOT in good shape......but then neither am I. Sadly though the ball was worse and couldn't be saved.............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Sorcha Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:29 PM Oh jeeez, Liz! That is bad......and there is poor JP in the wings with no quim......oh dear.
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Jeri Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:35 PM Liz, that's sick. My compliments. Spaw, don't ya just hate when, with no permission whatsoever, somebody plays wi...WHADDYAMEAN, "SHUT UP, JERI??!!" There was this horrible commercial that used to run every 5 minutes, advertising some sort of pizza-flavored food-like product, and I consequently had "Sugar in the mornin', sugar in the evenin', sugar at suppertime" in my head every morning for several weeks. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: CarolC Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:49 PM Today it was "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" by Ralph Vaughan Williams (which, incidently, I think is a mighty fine thing to wake up to), but I actually couldn't tell you whether or not this sort of thing happens very often. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: CapriUni Date: 03 Feb 02 - 06:49 PM Often my cat is the first to wake me up... She sits down beside my pillow and meows in my ear (my version of a 4 year old human). Lately, the tune that's been running in my head is "Pukka, pukka, pukka, squeakily boink." from Fraggle Rock. I kinda like the phenomenon, myself. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Desdemona Date: 03 Feb 02 - 07:10 PM Spaw---WHY was the bowling ball under the Honda?! Sadly, I haven't had a decent night's sleep since 1st becoming pregnant over 15 years ago; first it was my bladder, then it was the baby, then the kid/other babies, now just my over-developed sense of micro-managerial clock-watching neuroses (w/some help from my bladder---hey, I've had 3 kids, all right?!). That said, whatever song was in my head when I dropped off usually spends the whole night & awakens with me in the morning; happily, this is generally a song I like, but not ALWAYS. The only proven method for exorcising "bad song cooties" is to pass it on to someone else; this can also be accomplished via e-mail. The key is to sing (or type) the song to your intended with no preamble, epilogue or apology. Just do what's needful & hang up or press "send"! I recently rid myself of the Carpenters' "Close To You" this way, to my sister's horror (apologies to any 'catters now asking the musical question: "why do stars suddenly appear...")! |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 03 Feb 02 - 07:56 PM Actually folks, I could have been more specific. What I want to know is, what song or tune wakes you? I'm wondering if whatever is bothering me manifests itself in a song while I'm asleep. Opinions please. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Feb 02 - 08:04 PM Yeah Kendall, I was bothered 'cause I didn't have that thing so..... Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee that thing Gimmee that Gimmee gimmee that Gimmee gimmee gimmee that thing. And now, hey.....I got my thing right here!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: artbrooks Date: 03 Feb 02 - 08:54 PM Morning Edition on NPR...if I had music on the clock radio I'd never wake up. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Sorcha Date: 03 Feb 02 - 09:05 PM Kendall, I think it is probably true. It does seem to be true that what ever bothers you manifests in dreams, so why not songs? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 03 Feb 02 - 09:09 PM Seems like the only songs that wake me these days are about loss and regrets. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Desdemona Date: 03 Feb 02 - 09:19 PM Ooooh....I know how that is. What I find really vexing is that often the "soundtrack" accompanies dreams that reflect (in various degrees of abstraction!) the things that are weighing upon me in real life, with the result that I wake up feling exhausted by having spent the night subconsciously wrestling with things that I still have to deal with in my waking life. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 03 Feb 02 - 09:54 PM I wonder if this happens to non musicians? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: GUEST Date: 03 Feb 02 - 10:05 PM "Loss and regrets"?.....Sounds like youre playing too much C & W then, Kendall! *S* |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Sorcha Date: 03 Feb 02 - 10:34 PM Kendall, I know what you mean. I honestly think it has to do with "getting older"....not necessarily OLD, or ancient, just with some realization that the end of our lives is nearer than we would wish. Not "soon" as it were, just that we are no longer young with the Springtime before us.
This is happening to me quite often now, and not just in sleep/dreams. It does not have to be depressing; it's just a sort of wake up call to make sure your house is in order.
I would also guess that it has a LOT to do with your voice problems and the upcoming visit to Boston. I suspect that there is nothing more important to you in your life right now than your voice........and your sub-conscious is subtly preparing you to say goodbye if necessary...........I hope it is all a false alarm. Try to direct or re-direct your Thought Songs/Dreams just before you go to sleep. Hear and see yourself singing. Hear a positive song as you go to sleep. It really can help. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: CarolC Date: 03 Feb 02 - 11:22 PM Well, I'm not a singer, and the piece I woke up to this morning that I mentioned in my last post is an instrumental piece. So maybe there's a correlation there. I don't know if I've ever woken up with a song in my head. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: CapriUni Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:08 AM I'd echo what Sorcha said, Kendall (and I'll direct this to Desdamona as well, who mentioned being exhausted by her dreams). Remember that dreaming is simply a different kind of thinking than you practice in your waking state, and you can learn (through practice) to take control of your dreams a bit -- not entirely, but you can dream with purpose. Visualizing your vocal folds healing and you singing strongly again, as you go off to sleep might help (It might help them heal, as well as helping you wake up happier). Also, you can ask a specific question about something that is bothering you: ask for an answer, or a way to solve a problem. Write the question out on a slip of paper just before you drift off to sleep. It may take a week or two of doing this before you're able to decipher the answers that come to you in dreams. But even your dreams remain eternally wierd, it might help to end the day thinking of finding solutions rather than feeling overwhelmed by the questions... The dreaming brain (mine, at any rate) is very like a child: it likes puzzles, games, things to do. Good luck! P.S.: has anyone had the experience of waking up with an original song in the head? Or do your dreams ever have a musical background, like a movie? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: CarolC Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:15 AM Yes! I've composed symphonies in my sleep! But I can't remember them when I wake up. And composing anything at all is way beyond my abilities when I'm awake. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Kaleea Date: 04 Feb 02 - 02:41 AM I am now going to have to kill someone as the Loveboat themesong is running rampant through my braincells. What wakes me up is the sound of my kitty barfing up a hairball & the knowledge that I will (after going back to sleep & forgetting) get up & step in a mushy wet spot. Kendall, if the Loveboat does not sail away soon, I will be forced to placed a voodoo doll into a room with your name on it & put little voodoo headphones on the little voodoo doll head's & play only the Carpenters & Barry Manilow nonstop for the next 17 days. HEY! perhaps if we catters all got together & made a voodoo doll of binlately & placed it in the same room with kendalls doll with the nails on the chalkboard muzak, he would give himself up. Yeah, muzak, maybe some Porter Wagoner & video tapes of speeches of Richard Nixon. It's so crazy, it just might work! Think of the terrific info the guys questioning the "detainees" in Cuba could get by using this method. Or is it against the Geneva convention? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: mooman Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:09 AM Normally for me it's that moment of complete panic as one comes close to total suffocation due to a Persian cat (waiting for his breakfast) lying across my air passages. (Ah yes...they do work out the best ways of realising their priorities...) After I've recomposed myself, caught my breath, spat out the cat hairs and taken my medication, I may reflect gently on a piece of O'Carolan or Rory Dall while keeping one ear on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme. All the best, mooman |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Banjer Date: 04 Feb 02 - 04:39 AM I don't wake up with a song in my head, in fact rarely does a song enter my head. (Sound does NOT travel in a vaccuum!) Mostly what jars me out of the rack is the dogs desire to answer natures call, then my desire to answer natures call, someone in the kitchen rattlin' those pots and pans, in that order. I feel a song coming on, where's Dinah? |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 04 Feb 02 - 09:24 AM Actually Sorcha, this has been going on ever since I can remember, but, the ones about loss and regret have taken over in the last few years. I dont listen to country music, and I never watched the Love Boat. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 04 Feb 02 - 09:30 AM Kaleea, check the INCHES AND MILES thread...you're gonna kill me! |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: KingBrilliant Date: 04 Feb 02 - 10:34 AM I wake up with my daughter's songs in my head. MUCH too early, she wakes up and comes rushing in to wake me up with "I've just worked out a new song, listen...", "I've just worked out how to play something, listen", "I've just worked out these lovely chords, listen".....etc ....etc.... I know I wanted her to be a folkie - but sometimes I just want to sleeeeeeeeeeeep. AND - I wish she'd put some clothes on first - naked folking just makes me feel cold, and then I have to burrow back into the lovely warm duvet and sleeeeeeeeeeep. Only I can't because by then she's woken me up. And then there's the inevitable CLANG of clumsy kid + guitar + furniture. Then, "oops. Oh I think its alright". 10 year olds, eh? Too much enthusiasm that's the trouble. Kris |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: SharonA Date: 04 Feb 02 - 11:41 AM I wake up to the "beep beep beep" of my electric alarm clock. Not much of a tune, but it has a nice tempo. *G* I've tried setting the alarm to play a radio station instead of the "beep" sound, but one never knows what annoying song or commercial might be playing at the appointed time (besides, the radio is sometimes tuned to an all-news station, so one could awaken to a story about a murder and incorporate that into one's waking dreams – talk about nightmares!) So, for me, the neutrality of the "beep" works; it clears my mind of whatever unpleasantness I might have been dreaming about as I wake up. kendall, I suggest that you get yourself one of those clock-radios with the built-in tape player and/or CD player. Insert a tape or CD with whatever positive, uplifting music you think will carry you through the morning as it replays in your head, then set your alarm clock to play that tape or CD at the appoiinted time to wake you. There are also electric alarm clocks that will play your choice of several sounds such as waves on a beach, birds chirping, a babbling brook and other relaxing noises that might distract your waking brain from the loss-and-regret songs running through it. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 04 Feb 02 - 12:52 PM Sharon A That's an excellent idea. The only problem is, I dont have to get up at any special time. Some days it's 7 am, others, 8 am, more often 5 am. I could drive the machine nuts resetting it! Today, it was "Circle of Friends" |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: SharonA Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:31 PM You mean "..outside of a small circle of friends"? Yep, that's definitely not a happy song. Oddly enough, "A Circle of Friends" is the motto of the local folk-song society I belong to. The motto's message, however, is meant to be a lot more positive than the song's!! :^) |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: RichM Date: 04 Feb 02 - 01:31 PM Cats. Specifically those stiff cat whiskers on my face. Tickles, make me shudder. Or the next step, lying around the top of my head and purring(again, cats---not my bedpartner)
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Dave Bryant Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:28 AM I used to get woken up by a girlfriend's butt in my face. So I bought her an ashtray. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:45 AM Thanks for sharing Dave and Rich. Sharon, the song I'm talking about may not be the same one you mentioned. It's Dave Mallett again, and it goes;Oh hell, I'll post it.
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: SharonA Date: 05 Feb 02 - 10:05 AM "Ohhhhhhh, hellllll, I'll poooooost iiiiiit..." Got a tune to go with that, kendall? *G* Here's a link to the song kendall's really talking about: CIRCLE OF FRIENDS by Dave Mallett |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Ebbie Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:23 PM Kendall, the sadness that came through in the night I think for me had to do with getting older, knowing I no longer had all the options that I had taken granted all my life. (Whatta you mean- I'm gettin' old?! Why, I've been young all my life!) Once I got that through my head- and I'm not finished yet- I started noticing how very much I still can do, including enjoying moments more than I just about ever had. And relationships with people have become much more valuable to me. I'm hoping for another 20 years, with each year getting richer and more meaningful to me. That said, yesterday I woke with 'Music in the Air'; today it was 'Ashokan Farewell'. They're always complete with orchestration- and LOUD too. No wonder they wake me up. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: kendall Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:22 PM Humor is the opiate of the melancholy. |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: Catherine Jayne Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:22 PM I do wake up humming top tunes sometimes, usually after having been to a session |
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Subject: RE: What wakes you up? From: rangeroger Date: 05 Feb 02 - 10:20 PM You could always try one of these coffee blends. rr |
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