Mentally-composed Music in Dreams and LDs
Has anyone experienced a dream or an LD where your brain improvisationally composes music as the dream goes along? For example, you hit play on a stereo in your dream, and the music starts, but it is a song that you are sure that you've never heard before.
I've had this happen numerous times, and I'm very amazed at how the brain actually creates these songs flawlessly with rhythym and pleasing melodies. In a recent dream my friend, Jared, was showing me a song that he and his band had made, and the song started, and I was immediately flooded with awe and several emotions. It wasn't actually the type of music that my friend and his band actually make, but it was incredible. There was some type of background orchestral music with a playful guitar melody over it. Anyway, once I woke up I could faintly remember the song, and laid there thinking how amazing it was that I'd never heard a song at all like that before, but my mind could create it instantly.
These spontaneous songs happen quite often, and I've wondered why and how. I suppose if the brain can create high-resolution scenery in realtime, than it should be able to do the same with music. It may have to do with the fact that I often whistle or hum, or think of melodies in my mind while I'm doing things at home, to keep my mind occupied. It may be this activity that causes it to show up in dreams, although in a much more instrumental way.
So has anyone else had this happen? Do you usually hear music that you've heard before, or your mind's original music?
Re: Mentally-composed Music in Dreams and LDs
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Originally posted by Matchbook
and laid there thinking how amazing it was that I'd never heard a song at all like that before, but my mind could create it instantly.
Why would you think that it your mind could create that song 'instantly'. It is not as though your Dream created a hundred such songs in a row simply from a spontaneous command.
More than likely it took a great deal of creative effort for your Higher Mind to create that song, for the express purpose of appealing to your tastes, in order to make just the effect that it made. Then you suppose it was done instantly... thoughtlessly.... heedlessly.
From years of experience in suggesting to my Higher Mind certain specific Dream Contents and Motifs, am am fairly sure that I can safely assert that the Higher Mind does not produce any significant Accomplishment 'instantly'. The really interesting dreams can take 2 or 3 weeks.
I was once permitted to see a Dream Representation of the Dream Workshop. It was symbolized by an old News Room one could see in an old black and white movie -- the newsroom of a busy Daily Newspaper. Editors yelling. Cigerette smoke hanging in the air as most of the men in the room were pounding their typewriters. Some kicked back in thought. A few gossiping at the water-cooler. Its was a place of and for creative work. Nothing there was being done 'instantly'.