Post a Comment On: A Nod to Nothing

I haven't really gotten around to downloading Christmas pictures yet, so instead I'm going to ask a question I've been meaning to pose for a while. A few times a year, say three or four, I find myself sitting around and a symphony starts to play in my head. Nothing I've heard before. Never the same one twice. A fully-fledged, all instruments, sounds like something you'd hear on the classical radio channel, piece. If you gave me a tape recorder at that moment, I could hum all the individual strings and woodwinds and percussion (et al) lines making up the whole.

Until recently, I never thought too much of it. And then I reconsidered that maybe it's weird. So does this sort of thing happen to anyone else? Do you find yourself in-mind of a new classical tune, or some painting that should make it to a canvas but doesn't? I suspect it's my brain just exercising some neurons I haven't been mindful of on a day-to-day basis, but I'm fascinated to know if it's common, or if there are variations on the theme, or if some psychologist knows what causes it.