15 Songs About Beautiful Dreams

As we enter the holiday season, it’s hard not to become reflective. The year’s almost over. For many of us this means the end of school or work, family visits (for better or worse), and eating lots and lots of food. Contrary to popular belief, winter can be a time of revitalization, when goals abandoned in the middle of the year can be dusted off, polished, and set again. This is a time when dreams, dried out in the summer sun, can be remembered and resuscitated. Winter is a time of big sweaters, warm cups of hot cocoa, and snuggling close to the ones we love most. For some mammals (or even some of us), winter is a time of hibernation. Winter is a time for dreams.

To celebrate dreams and dreamers, we’ve crafted this playlist. It begins with “Beautiful Dreamer” sung by Marty Robbins and flows into “California Dreamin’” by The Mamas and the Papas. Selena’s “Dreaming of You” fit almost too well into this list and melts into “Sweet Dreams” by Queen Bey herself. Metallica shakes up the list with “Enter Sandman,” and the list mellows out with Lana Del Rey and the Smiths. Fleetwood Mac wraps everything up with “Dreams.”

1. “Beautiful Dreamer”–Marty Robbins, “The Essential Marty Robbins”
2. “California Dreamin’”–The Mamas and the Paps, “All The Leaves Are Brown The Golden Era Collection”
3. “Dream On”–Aerosmith, “The Essential Aerosmith”
4. “Dreaming of You”–Selena, “Selena Remembered”
5. “In My Dreams”–Dream, “It Was All A Dream”
6. “Sweet Dreams”–Beyoncé, “I AM…SASHA FIERCE”
7. “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”–The Eurythmics, “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”
8. “Enter Sandman”–Metallica, “Metallica”
9. “Once Upon a Dream”–Lana Del Rey, “Once Upon a Dream (from ‘Maleficent’)”
10. “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”–The Smiths, “Strangeways, Here We Come”
11. “Judy and the Dream of Horses”–Belle & Sebastian, “If You’re Feeling Sinister”
12. “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect”–The Decemberists, “Castaways and Cutouts”
13. “Daydream Believer”–The Monkees, “The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees”
14. “Imagine”–John Lennon, “Imagine”
15. “Dreams”–Fleetwood Mac, “Rumours (Super Deluxe)”