Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1983
"Sweet dreams are made of cheese."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Sweet dreams are made of cheese."
What's actually sung
"Sweet dreams are made of this." Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Eurythmics (1983)
Why the ear defaults
Annie Lennox's clipped British "this" has a fricative tail that sounds like "cheese" — and "cheese" is a word a brain recognises faster than the pronoun.
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