Hallucinations

Recently, I've been having musical hallucinations relatively often, especially compared to their frequency about two months ago. Nowadays, I'll space off and begin imagining a piece for solo or multiple instruments that I have never heard beforehand, and it will often become uncontrollable and gain a mind of its own, leading me to conclusions I never would have imagined myself. Though the large majority of them are relatively weak, uncontrolled bursts of sound - about a phrase or so - a few have taken minutes from my day as I imagine them, or time before I sleep as they rush through my head. One piece I was particularly taken by began playing just as I fell asleep. It sounded as though it came straight from an NES game...yet I know I had never heard it before. There was some snare and percussion playing on the offbeats, as well as chords being played every beat in a multitude of different samples, but I could not identify the key, nor had I any control over where the music was going. It developed from a relatively simple melodic theme into something I desperately wish I could reproduce now, but I simply cannot remember. Though this may be true, the very fact that I imagined something like it makes me feel incredibly happy: maybe my musical abilities are developing quite a bit more!

They began relatively recently, about one or two months ago. I learned about them just a week or so before they began: I was reading the book Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, which discusses the nature of musical hallucinations and other musical disorders or mental syndromes and symptoms. I'm rather taken with my hallucinations, as they've pleasantly interrupted my daily slog a number of times and made me rather delighted to hear my own imagination creating something without me willing it.