Self soothing - does anyone wake to music stuck in their head? or have automatic “comfort tools”?

[katz]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. Does anyone else wake up in the morning with ...music, like a particular song going around in their head? I get different songs on different days, but they are all childhood songs. (Ex. Disney or songs from elementary school music class)
I seem to be doing it a lot lately. I think it goes back to when I was a kid, I would sing/think the words to songs to help me fall asleep. Maybe my brain has been programmed to remember childhood songs to comfort itself? Like when I have a nightmare during the night. Maybe the automatic "comfort tool" kicks in??
Thoughts?

 

[PeTerSD]

I have exactly the same thing, from the moment I wake until I eventually sleep especially during times of added stress - I have assumed like you that it is a comfort reflex of some kind, perhaps distraction from underlying pain/uncomfortable thoughts or flashbacks. It can get really frustrating though at times, when I don't feel like I can control it..

 

[LuckiLee]

I do this. Every morning. Hmm?

 

[bellbird]

Yes, I get this too. For me they aren't specifically childhood songs, though I'd describe them as pop-y radio songs (even though I haven't listened to the 'radio' in years).
Hadn't given much thought to why it was happening; I just thought it was an odd quirk I had developed. So it's nice to know others experience the same.

 

[katz]

My big problem is that I can't stop it. I wake up during the night suddenly, when I dream something. I usually can't remember what the dream was - it just woke me.

I would love to be able to "stop" this "automatic response". As a grown up now, I would like to be able to know what I'm dreaming about when my mind remembers the past. I want to remember, so that I can deal with it as an adult.

 

[EveHarrington]

I have music that plays in my head but to me it’s a warning sign that my inner child is present and needs comforting

 

[Still Standing]

Ahhhh...the earworm, as my hubby calls it, I guess it is also called the "musical brain worm". I have music going through my head all the time and find that I will hum it repeatedly throughout the day, driving myself and other nuts. But they are happy songs, hymns, choruses, bubble gum tunes from the 1950-60's. I very seldom am without a song in my head. I will also wake up many times in the night, with my brain singing to me (if that makes sense). Through the years I have seen it as a subconscious way that I self-comfort. I 'spose it would be similar to someone who whistles through his day...my dad was a whistler. Hubby's head music is classical and 70-80's music. It is not an uncommon experience.

 

[Swift]

I literally could not concentrate at night school tonight because I couldnt get Hamilton out of my head!!!