Many composers have written about their sources of inspiration, including meditation, auditory visions, and other intuitional sources. A recent study indicates that dreams are also a frequent source of inspiration.
When composers were asked about hearing music in their dreams, in a study conducted at the University of Florence Sleep Lab and reported in Psychology Today, the results indicated that more than one-fourth of the dreams in which the composer heard music, it was unfamiliar music, not heard before by that composer.
The frequency with which a composer heard music in dreams was positively related to how young the composer was when first beginning the practice of music.
New ideas and inventions have also come to light in the mind of the dreamer. A familiar example is the invention of the sewing machine. In his dream he saw the spears of soldiers being held with the needle being threaded from the opposite end as his thinking had been.
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