When I'm lying in bed trying to fall asleep, my idle brain will constantly "compose" coherent and structured pieces on the fly, without any concious effort, that are significantly better than anything I can write when I'm awake, and it's getting to be really frustrating...

This is like me. I’m usually wide awake when I hear these detailed melodies in my head. I get the hyper aware half sleep state being a catalyst for creativity, but for me it’s just plain old lying down in bed late at night inspiration. The hard part for me is not being to lazy to turn on the PC, which admittedly is 2 feet away from my bed, and try to get out what’s in my head. I’ve been working on overcoming this lack of motivation and desire for sleep by trying to tell myself that if I can get these ideas down and they’re as good as I believe they are my life could change to the point where I’ll be able to sleep whenever I want and not have to worry about getting up in the AM for some 9-5 job. I know that you can never truly say that such and such a piece of music will be a guaranteed hit, but honestly I feel like over the last 10 years of casually trying to produce music that I’ve probably let some potential “hits” slip away from being to lazy to just get out of bed and compose what I’m hearing. Hopefully I can reverse this trend and good luck on getting your hits out of your own head!

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