After immersing yourself in Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent blockbuster film “Inception,” you probably need some time to figure out the intricacies of the plot’s elaborate dreamscape. I know I did.
Here are lots of “Dream” songs to keep you company while you try to sort out the movie’s multilayered levels.
We’ll start with two of the all-time greatest voices:
• Patsy Cline’s “Sweet Dreams (Of You)”
• Roy Orbison with three great songs: “Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)” and two featured in movies “In Dreams” (“Blue Velvet”) and “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (“You’ve Got Mail”)
And here are a couple more movie “Dreams”:
• “Pieces of Dreams,” a Michel Legrand song from the like-titled movie, performed here by Johnny Mathis
• “(All I Do the Whole Night Through Is) Dream of You,” from “Singin’ in the Rain”
Then a pair of songs by two legendary singers:
• Elvis, with “Follow That Dream” and “If I Can Dream”
• Pete Seeger, with “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” and the labor song “Joe Hill”: “I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me …”
And two TV shows:
• “Dream Along With Me (I’m On My Way to a Star),” the theme song of “Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall”
• “Making Our Dreams Come True,” the theme song from “Laverne and Shirley”
And two very different songs with the same name:
• Aerosmith’s “Dream On”
• The Righteous Brothers’ “Dream On”
And then we’ll wrap up with a wide array of other musical “Dreams” — in alphabetical order:
• “A Wonderful Dream” by the Majors
• “All I Have to Do Is Dream” by the Everly Brothers
• “California Dreamin’ ” by the Mamas and Papas
• “Daydream” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
• “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees
• “Dream a Little Dream of Me” by Mama Cass
• “Dream Lover” by Bobby Darin
• “Dream On Little Dreamer” by Perry Como
• “Dreamboat Annie” by Heart
• “Dreamer” by Supertramp
• “Dreamin’ ” by Johnny Burnette
• “Dreaming” by Blondie
• “Dreaming” by Cliff Richard
• “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac
• “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife” by Glen Campbell
• “Dreamtime” by Hall and Oates
• “Dreamy Eyes” by Johnny Tillotson
• “I Can Dream About You” by Dan Hartman
• “I Dreamed a Dream,” Susan Boyle’s first triumph
• “I Had a Dream” by Paul Revere and the Raiders
• “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” by the Electric Prunes
• “I Have a Dream” by Abba
• “Just a Dream” by Jimmy Clanton
• “Sad Sweet Dreamer” by Sweet Sensation
• “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” by the Eurythmics
• “The Dreamer” by Neil Sedaka
• “The Impossible Dream” by Andy Williams
• “You Make My Dreams” by Hall and Oates
• “Your Wildest Dreams” by the Moody Blues