Have You Ever Dreamt of an Object/Dress/Piece of Art/Music/Material thing and then Realized it IRL?

[StephL]

Yupp - what it says on the tin! Been just posting on my DJ about a dress I dreamt about a longish while ago, which I would love to realize! Either I'd get myself a sewing-machine and learn to use it - or I just give my idea to a friend, who's very good at it.. Soo - if you ever did something like it - please tell us about it - and really cool of course would be, if you showed us photos of the results as well! Of course any sort of "artistic work" would fit in here as well - paintings, sculpture, furniture - anything made from material, to which you were inspired in your dreams or lucid dreams! If you just plan something, or could imagine doing something - tell us about that!

[Creation]

I was thinking about making a doll of a character from a videogame. But then I had a dream were I had already made such a doll. My desire to make said doll has increased since then. However,there are a lot of other dolls I want to make first so I not going to make that one in the near future.

[StephL]

So you make dolls as a hobby, Creation? Would you like to show them to us? I would love to see them! What I could also imagine is writing down music, or recording music without notation after something from a dream! There is software these days, where you can sing something, and it produces the notation for you - this is something I would love to do one day!

[Creation]

So you make dolls as a hobby, Creation? Would you like to show them to us? I would love to see them! Shure, I could make a thread about them in the near future. But if you can´t wait I could post a link to my deviantart page. I have uploaded a few of them there. What I could also imagine is writing down music, or recording music without notation after something from a dream! There is software these days, where you can sing something, and it produces the notation for you - this is something I would love to do one day! I wish people would invent a mind reading music recording device already. So many of my Hypnagogic Hallucinations contain awesome music I´ve never heard before. I used to be a notable problem to me because it would make me exited and wake up.

[Box77]

Besides music, which I use to 'take back' from both lucids and non-lucids (I play by ear - the latest riff was a couple of weeks ago I think - DJ entry here), sometimes I brought ideas for drawings and paintings mostly. It was a more 'prolific' activity during my 20's, nowadays I usually get to make rough sketches just to not forget about it, and perhaps I will work on them when I have more time. On the other hand, during 2009 I was working on the deign for a costume for a carnival party and I wanted to use lucid dreaming to get new ideas. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get close to the parade in the dream, I was 2 blocks away when all the sheets I had in my hand were blown by the wind. At the end I lost the dream and there was too much stress those days. Funny thing was long time after everything was over, I got to see the new costumes in some other lucids, but it was too late and didn't care anymore.

[StephL]

Shure, I could make a thread about them in the near future. But if you can´t wait I could post a link to my deviantart page. I have uploaded a few of them there. Fantastic plan! I can wait - but if you have a page already - why not?! I wish people would invent a mind reading music recording device already. So many of my Hypnagogic Hallucinations contain awesome music I´ve never heard before. I used to be a notable problem to me because it would make me exited and wake up. I don't know if you are singing, but it doesn't matter, how it sounds - it's a way to get a notation - if you think, you could hum it after waking up - do that, record it, and we could find the software! You could use the computer to actually compose it into music later on! For this I know a great program, even if I can't use it - but a friend can, and I'd like to learn myself! Besides music, which I use to 'take back' from both lucids and non-lucids (I play by ear - the latest riff was a couple of weeks ago I think - DJ entry here), sometimes I brought ideas for drawings and paintings mostly. It was a more 'prolific' activity during my 20's, nowadays I usually get to make rough sketches just to not forget about it, and perhaps I will work on them when I have more time. On the other hand, during 2009 I was working on the deign for a costume for a carnival party and I wanted to use lucid dreaming to get new ideas. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get close to the parade in the dream, I was 2 blocks away when all the sheets I had in my hand were blown by the wind. At the end I lost the dream and there was too much stress those days. Funny thing was long time after everything was over, I got to see the new costumes in some other lucids, but it was too late and didn't care anymore. .../I'm watching a TV-show which is about to find the 4 worse artistic performances of the week. It's a sort of a live show. The audience laughs with every presentation. At the end a woman's voice announces the new performers of the week and which one of them will succeed or could be in the next show. After a couple of blurry music performances, a guy covered in blood starts dancing some satanic rituals. I think perhaps this guy will be in the next show. Then she says something like: "...And now we'll present the new release from the band [She says the name of my former band], they are bringing their new material and it looks like they are going to be a great hit... or will they be in our next show?". I start to pay attention, wondering about their new sound and what have they done since my departure. A very interesting riff fades in. I'm amazed, thinking how the hell he can think those rhythms! The volume goes up and the riff is on my face! It's simply wonderful. I think this guy have talent. Then I start to wonder what could he do to get out of that riff and perhaps he will try to accelerate the rhythm. It changes into a speed riff which doesn't convince me. I think he did it again, lost the feeling trying to impress with flaw speed riffs. I turn my back while the music fades out/... * I wake up with the first riff looping in my head when I notice that it's something I don't know. I first record the melody with my cheap voice recorder. Then I wonder how it goes in the guitar. I have to tune it in C. Then I decide that perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to record it. And once again, I have a new riff ready to be worked... I'm speechless - for now!

[Creation]

Fantastic plan! I can wait - but if you have a page already - why not?! CrystalCreation on deviantART Once I have a thread for them I´d probably update it at the same pace as my deviantart page. I don't know if you are singing, but it doesn't matter, how it sounds - it's a way to get a notation - if you think, you could hum it after waking up - do that, record it, and we could find the software! You could use the computer to actually compose it into music later on! For this I know a great program, even if I can't use it - but a friend can, and I'd like to learn myself! The hardest part is getting these songs in my long term memory. Even if I would remember the main melody after waking up and record myself humming them, the songs I hear in my dreams and HH are far more complex than that. If I can listen closer I can even make out a bass line and all other parts a complete song needs. I can´t hum all of that. Even if I had composing skills by the time I’d be sitting in front of a computer my memory of them would probably be gone. I guess I have to find another way to channel my inner musician.

[ThreeCat]

I have seen something in a dream, only to realize I will never own one Does that count?? But seriously, I once dreamt a short story. I then woke up and wrote it from memory. A writer friend of mine says it is one of my stronger pieces. So!

[Box77]

The hardest part is getting these songs in my long term memory. Even if I would remember the main melody after waking up and record myself humming them, the songs I hear in my dreams and HH are far more complex than that. If I can listen closer I can even make out a bass line and all other parts a complete song needs. I can´t hum all of that. Even if I had composing skills by the time I’d be sitting in front of a computer my memory of them would probably be gone. I guess I have to find another way to channel my inner musician. I know exactly what you mean! That's why I use to just focus on single riffs which I can work after waking up, that way I don't lose most of the feeling. What I use to do later is work on the saved riffs, and then I can build a song which sounds in parts like the original one, perhaps not exactly the same but better than nothing. One curious thing was sometimes I got to re-build sections I forgot when working on the song. I was like "It would be great if I do this here", and then, "wait a minute, of course, it sounded something like that!" I think one way or another it's better than nothing. At the end, it's a song which started in a dream. Drawings and paintings are far more complicated for me, if I'd have some sort of camera to export those pictures I see there, not taking into account landscapes, some DC's and stuff.

[Dark_Merlin]

I've always wanted to write a song within a lucid and then bring it back and compose it. I think there's a lot to be said for the untapped creative resources of the dreaming mind, and the ease of which we can access our creativity and imagination when we're in a dream. I know I have heard amazing music during HI when I'm falling asleep, and I've thought of some awesome riffs on the edge of waking up but I haven't captured them!

[StephL]

Fantastic - thank you all - I'm a bit over-busy with the competition at the moment, would answer all of you more in depth otherwise! But I really hope, we might be getting somewhere - maybe some of us start to do such things. Of course I also mean non-material "things" like music, literature and - anything. Was a mistake to word it so restrictedly in my OP. And actually - any of your work would be lovely to see, "even" if inspired from waking life! Show us, what you feel you'd like to share with us, please! I clicked your page Creation and I really very much look forward to your thread - these are great, including the background - whoever they are: Isolated Alien: 'Mars-San' Reminds me a bit of two rather strange cuddly toys of mine, and of "rhinogradentia" - maybe later...

[4thDimension]

I customize Breyer and Peter Stone model horses. I have received a LOT of inspiration from dreams regarding color, sculpting customizations, and whatnot. I have also received the inspiration for many of my drawings and paintings over the years. Lucid dreaming is a great tool for any kind of artist. Through LD's artists can ask their subconscious what to do next!

[StephL]

Oooh - please 4thDimension - show us!! People - check this out - science fiction becoming real: http://www.dreamviews.com/science-ma...wn-dreams.html

[Treetopdriver]

I sometimes hear great music when dreaming, last time I kept trying to find out the name of a song, as if I could look it up when awake... I know it sounded close to a few songs I've heard before, but I would be recreating it mostly based on that so that's no fun. If you wanna have some fun with making tunes you should try FL Studio (or some other program like it), not that hard to get into and you don't need to know sheet-music style notation.

[StephL]

Fruity Loops?! Yeah - that's exactly what my friend uses!! Ha - I had begun writing this post a la - forgot what she uses - thanks for the tip! I would really want to - no idea if I'm any good at this - but maybe I'll get back to her - she wanted to have me croaking into her mike before, promising, she can edit it all nice, in case it isn't. Didn't dare, yet - which is a rather unusual state of affairs for me, don't like the idea of chickening out, part of why she asks. The same friend, I would ask about the dress or sewing lessons, actually, and she's a mathematician to boot - some people just simply can't get enough! I guess, there's tons of talent out there - if only it didn't take that much courage to begin with... If not showing it to others, then making something material is so much easier in that respect than putting your very self on the line, esp. live, esp. with no instrument to hide behind. But it's not even really needed in times of modern technology in order to be heard, neither to learn so much theory, nor even technique. I could dig out some theory even, from ages back, gained in context with my long gone and hate-loved violin - been also yodelling in the school choir (not literally - that's really difficult). But if I actually were to invest energy in it - I'd really rather want to believe myself able to go on stage in the end. Anybody ever did karaoke? I didn't - might be an idea, though! See if I bolt and run. I tend to believe we humans are singers by nature - all of us to some degree - and there is evidential reason to believe it's healthy, too!

[Verre]

I'm also fascinated by the connection between dreaming and music! There's definitely something to this. A couple years ago I began exploring music in my LDs, with surprising results. I have almost no musical inclination in waking life: I never even learned an instrument. My only musical background consisted of few years singing in my high school choir and performing in musicals (many years ago now!) where I learned that I can't even stay on key without back-up. These days I don't even listen to music very often, unless I'm exercising. Sometimes when I'm alone in the house I'll sing to myself, sort of, but always wordlessly and using notes that probably don't conform to any proper scale. But the more I practiced lucid dreaming, the more I noticed how inexplicably musical my dreams were: sometimes I would just open my mouth to sing, and whole melodies would come out spontaneously, sometimes with perfectly rhymed lyrics! The deeper I was in dream, the more complex this music was: when in a relatively shallow dreamstate (like an early WILD), it would usually be a superficial tune like a commercial ditty, but if I was really deep (like a very stable DILD), it would sometimes sound like I had multiple voices all springing from my throat at once, weaving together melodies of unearthly complexity. I did try to record some of the simpler tunes on my iPhone voice memo app upon waking up, but there wasn't anything I could do for the more complex ones. Eventually I began to notice that music can even aid my dream control. Sometimes when I'm trying to accomplish a certain task in an LD, and having difficulty, I find that singing will somehow pull it off.

[StephL]

Mmm - that sounds great, Verre! Did you ever dare to put a micro somewhere, when you're singing to yourself in the house? The mind is a weird thing, though - just the knowledge of this could possibly interfere with, up to annihilate the inspiration, at least I believe it would be so with me - but then - did I try? Nope... I think not being able to hold the key on your own and in public can also be down to interferences just from fearing exactly that. It would be interesting to see, if what one sings to oneself is really often beyond the usual harmonics, when recorded and analysed. When I was a kid, we were moving into a not yet complete house, and the empty rooms had marvellous resonance and reverberation - been singing in them for hours back then, also without proper words - but sometimes with gibberish ones... That you are able to dream together actual fitting lyrics is really impressive, I have to say!

[Verre]

I haven't tried to record any of my waking-life melodies, though it's a good idea! I'm not sure if they stray from conventional scales entirely, although I tend to favor melancholy progressions in a minor key. Only once have I heard a legitimate piece of music and was like, "omg, that sounds like my music" -- only so much better. It's the first song in an obscure album called "The Glory of Byzantium" by Lycourgos Angelopoulos and Divna Ljubojevic. You can hear a preview of it on Amazon: Amazon.com: Glory of Byzantium: Music Here's an excerpt from one of my dreams (of March 13, 2014, recorded offline) that involved both spontaneously-rhymed lyrics and music for dream control (which incidentally served as a DS and made me lucid). I couldn't remember the lyrics in full, unfortunately, though someday I might get around to trying to reconstruct them: Spoiler for Excerpt: We're still being threatened by the thugs so we quickly go inside the door and I try to shut it again. One of the Cambodian thugs has stuck a dead fish in the door so I can't close it all the way and I have to put a lot of effort into dislodging the fish without losing my grasp on the door, which they are also trying to pull open. Finally I push the fish out of the way and fully shut the door, which locks with a satisfying click of the modern mechanism. Although it seems secure now, I think I should take extra care and ward it. I begin warding by humming or singing something as I run my hands over all three sides but the one with hinges. As I do so, I try to remember the tune I used when I did this before and this reminds me that I must be dreaming. Now lucid, I finish the warding and turn around to find that the guy who came in with me has vanished. I assume this is a consequence of the mental shift that came with lucidity although I wish he were still here so I could talk to him. In any case, what to do now? I don't have any task planned and feel disinclined to invent one, so I decide to just go along with the dream. Laziness, I know! In the center of the room is a pile of colorful cloths or clothes... women's garments? All I really feel inclined to do is sing and dance so that is how I spend the rest of the dream. It is a somewhat cheerful song with lyrics that I come up with spontaneously although not completely without effort. The words were very clear until I actually woke up and then faded quickly. All I could get down was the rhyme scheme of the first stanza: ..............................last night [this line was something about being the favorite of the king] ......riding through the fields [by implication riding a horse of course, though I don't think it made explicit] .................................light [the adjective before "light" was either "morning" or "autumn" or "fading" I think, it referred to the light over the fields] ..................................yields [this referred to the harvest] I could have/should have recorded the tune or at least the metric but my husband was still asleep and I didn't want to disturb him with noise.

[StephL]

Wow Verre! I have no idea, if this is any like you are meaning it - but do you know her? That's a bit like I used to sing to myself when I was a teenager - not quality-wise of course, but from the style, back when I was very much into this sort of fairy-tale medieval mood - maybe you'd like her. I've had such a crazy night - bit fevery from an infection I got - I sweated three nightgowns through - had a thousand intense dreams - and the one I just now woke up from (it's past 1 pm here...) was me staying in the room of a friend sitting on the floor and listening to a cassette while I could watch the performers, too, in some dream-logical way. The singer looked a lot like younger me - I even thought in the dream about cutting my hair short again like her. Aaah - and now I only have one refrain left from that. Singing it all the time, because my dictation device is still loading - but on it's own it's just not really something. Shame - whole end of the dream was just listening to songs... But it's the first such dream in ages, I do so wish I could put a camera and microphone in my dreams!! Esp. the fevery ones. Not going to put it up, but this snippet had the not overly original text "the English phenomenon - the English phenomenon". It was all complete with sensical text, though, if I had had that micro - I had it all. Edit: Have I linked through to this? Linking twice is better then not at all: http://www.dreamviews.com/science-ma...wn-dreams.html Concerning cameras in your dreams etc...

[Verre]

I had been meaning to get back to this thread, but I lost track of it for a while! I'm actually surprised that I had not heard of Loreena McKennitt before, since it sounds like a lot of other music that I've listened to. I'll need to listen to more of her work. It's been a while since I've experimented with dream music, but your dare is great inspiration! I'm hoping to combine it with the October bonus task, if I can get to it in time. It would be a great start if I could at least get to a forest... I've been trying to do this for the Hansel and Gretel TOTY, but keep getting thwarted. Much to my chagrin, my dreams tend to gravitate to urban or suburban settings, and often take place entirely indoors.