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Last night, I couldn't fall asleep thanks to Scrabin's brilliant tonal constructions. I couldn't stop hearing his Etude op 65 n1 - I thought I was going crazy!
Which tones lurk in your minds at midnight?

Anything Alkan. Actually, just anything that's stuck in my head.

I usually pop on music in the background to help me fall asleep. Chopin's Ballade 4 made me very drowsy last night.

The latest thing I am working on!

or should I say the one of which I am obsessed?

Anything I play after 11:30 PM. That's my magic number. For some reason, any activity I do after 23:30 that requires conscious effort gets printed in my brain and makes it much harder to sleep, that's why I try to relax before going to bed, specially when I have exams =).

Anything I have to play in the upcoming few days, especially if I'm not prepared.. Often turns into one of those nightmares. Have you ever had a dream that you're on stage and have to perform something you haven't learned yet? Or have to sight read something incredibly difficult in a big hall.. aeihrosdjfljgfgj.

It's weird though, I often hear music when I wake up in the middle of the night!

RACHMANINOFF. Especially his 2nd concerto. I think I do somehow manage to put myself to sleep but it still gives me terrifying dreams...

The assumption that a composer or a work can prevent one from sleeping is certainly not applicable universally. At least, I've never had that problem.

Thats exactly what happens to me!

While Studying the 2nd Sonata of Prokofiev (in Dm), I had plenty of trouble sleeping. I was very fascinating by the whole sonata, but especially the 4th movement, where there is an obsession with C#! Similarly I developed an obsession with that movement, the parts where the C# is mostly used and in general I had trouble sleeping because of that.

This lasted about a week, when I decided to leave the sonata (for my own shake) and move to another one (the 8th... heh...). Much later I changed that (after learning the 1st and 2nd movements. The 3rd I had trouble with), to a Greek composer intermezzo (Christos Anastassiou. A brilliant composer and a brilliant work for solo piano). I didn't had trouble sleeping with that piece or with any other piece!

And to me too.
Sometimes I also hear music when people are talking to me (during the day), so I don't know what they have just said, and it sort of embarrassing...

Chopin... but not in a bad way. Sometimes I lie there thinking about his work that I'm currently learning, or other times I have an overwhelming urge to listen to his music... so I listen to my iPod whilst I go to sleep. His music is mesmorizing.

Music does not keep me awake. But if I can't sleep then mental rehearsal of pieces I'm working on is a great way to pass the time. Sometimes it helps me get back to sleep, other times not. In any case it's useful in getting more familiar with the music. And it's good to have some deliberate direction for the mind, to keep at bay those disturbing or frightening thoughts that tend to come up around 3 A.M.
I don't hear music when I wake up, but in my dreams I hear some extraordinary compositions.

often when I wake up in the middle of the night I hear the last music I listened to before I went to sleep....

Anything I'm working on that I happen to be excited about. (Which means...not necessarily everything I'm working on.)

Usually I get sleeply when I listen to some nice modern jazz pianists, like Bill Evans or Erroll Garner, or Kieth Jarrett. Either that, or classical music like Mozart and some other composers related to Mozart make me sleepy.

Composers like Fats Waller and Oscar Peterson usually wake me up, and so do most of rock and roll music and rap. Classical composers like Chopin and Liszt and Alkan usually wake me up.