Making Beautiful Music!

[michaelrp7]

When I am lucid I play the guitar a lot. I make this beautiful music that makes everyone around me cry. It really is a beautiful piece but as soon as I wake up I cannot even remember how it goes. I have very good dream recall but it just disappears. I think I may be making up non existing notes in my dreams. No matter how much I fiddle with my guitar, I can't find anything like it... Think there is anyway I could remember the music better. I just want to hear in my head while I am awake! Thank You!

[Gez]

Start writing a dream journal, the more you record however small and unsignificant your dreams, the more vivid and bold in your mind the dreams will be every night. Fo sho.

[Shift]

Maybe next time you find yourself lucid, hum the tune instead of playing it? Maybe that way, when you wake up you'll remember recently having hummed at least the tune, and then you can work out the chords? And I guess some people can wake themselves up while lucid. I bet if you woke yourself up while humming it, you'd remember it pretty well.

[michaelrp7]

I do keep a dream journal and record every dream in it. Humming it is a good idea! Any other suggestions?

[TopographicOceans]

Do you tune the guitar before you play? lol I dont have an idea on how to remember the music but I have a question. When playing guitar in a lucid dream, is it the same as real life? Like the playing feel, the number of frets and strings? Can you also play songs in a Lucid that you can play in waking life and have it sound the way it really should? I ask this because I have had nonLucid dreams where I was playing guitar and it was making sound but it had no strings.

[michaelrp7]

It is just like in real life. 6 strings and 24 frets... It just sounds better in my dreams!

[HyperNova]

Hmm, I'm able to play amazingly on the piano just by "hitting" any key in any order in dreams, but when I want to play something I know in real life it never comes out right.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

I do the same thing! I play the guitar in my dreams and it is the sweetest music ever! I have remembered it and played in waking life but it wasn't that great. I think the lucid mind appreciates music more. Paul McCartney heard that song "Yesterday" in a dream. We should form a dream band and play concerts in people's dreams.

[reesespieces]

When I am lucid I play the guitar a lot. I make this beautiful music that makes everyone around me cry. It really is a beautiful piece but as soon as I wake up I cannot even remember how it goes. I have very good dream recall but it just disappears. I think I may be making up non existing notes in my dreams. No matter how much I fiddle with my guitar, I can't find anything like it... Think there is anyway I could remember the music better. I just want to hear in my head while I am awake! Thank You! gosh every time i come on this forum i learn new things that you can do during LDing. well everything pretty mcuh is better in your dreams! you can fly and be amazing at things that can't happen in real life.

[747Music]

I hear original music in my dreams too. I've made songs roughly on the sounds that I heard. Listen to the song Aviation Dreams that I made on my site to hear what it was. My site is www.myspace.com/747MusicIEC Interestingly enough, the band Boards of Canada has had much success in this aspect. The song Gyroscope on their album Geogaddi originated in one of the band member's dream. He awoke and rushed to his studio. Soon after he describes the results as being earily 99% accurate. It still haunts him when he listens to it he says. I find the same haunting nostalgia in some of the songs I make. It's like a waking connection to your own dream world. So I've been playing these songs that originated in my dreams while I sleep. It helps to cause repetition in atmosphere, and thus helps me to realise I'm dreaming.

[joshbotch]

if you (like me) talk in your sleep then humming the melody in your dream might translate to humming out loud in real life... you could get one of thoes handheld tape recorders with an auto-record feature and put it next to your bed... i do that for talking in my sleep, you get some bizarre recordings, one night i shouted "FREEDOM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT HAPPINESS!" i never knew that my subconcious was a republican. ha!

[Patrick]

Music is probably so hard to pin down in dreams because we are not depending on our ears to process music; it all comes from the brain. This means that the music may be in the form of just thoughts, or ideas, and so is hard to translate back into the real world.

[NeoSioType]

can wonderful music really be brought back from dreams? If if you play it exactly would you eventually find your mind gave the illusion that it was wonderful?

[Hercuflea]

you can try writing down how the rhythym of the song goes its hard to explain but you use a dot sequence or something like that, its what i do to remember rythyms in real life, just write it on a piece of paper

[747Music]

can wonderful music really be brought back from dreams? If if you play it exactly would you eventually find your mind gave the illusion that it was wonderful? The song that Boards of Canada made that I was talking about is awesome. It really is a piece of art.

[joshbotch]

nice to see anothr BOC fan, that whole album is wonderfully sureal

[tommo]

This morning I woke up tapping my hands on my bed (I play piano) while I was still in a semi-dream state kinda thing and I had this awesome tune! Almost as soon as I woke up fully I had forgotten it. So annoying. It was a simple melody but I knew it would be a good song if I could build on it IRL. But this is the first time that I can remember doing this. Although in full dreams I have made songs but then just completely forgot them even later on in the dream. I'll work on it though and maybe post songs up if I get results.