The tension-resolution pattern as a basic feature of both music and dreaming

Creation of tension, followed by tension resolution is one of the fundamental features of music; a similar cognitive and emotive pattern characterizes the psychological experience of dreaming. A theoretical study of this similarity item between music and dreaming, two universal human activities, can be interesting from two viewpoints: first, it can shed light on both music psychology and dreaming psychology; second, it provides an example of how our mind can exhibit similar ways of working for different functions. The tensionresolution pattern shared by music and dreaming is related to the basic emotional significance of both these experiences and, more generally, to a multifaceted complex set of similarity items between music and dreaming.