Thread: what is listening to music like in LDs?

Originally Posted by Dexter33

I am a piano player, and sometimes I hear fantastic compositions in my dreams, both lucid and non-lucid. They are always really beautiful and I have not heard them before. On a very few select occassions, I've managed to more or less recreate the song on the piano. Music otherwise is always epic, and if you are lucid it will not disappoint you Like the many other amazing details your mind creates in lucid dreams, music is no exception.

I happen to study music as well (singer) and whenever I hear music, it's usually composed by my subconscious during very emotionally heavy dreams. However when I play music I've memorized, the quality is identical to real life however it often jumps and skips bars.

When I wake up and recal the compositions, it's usually a very simple melody that sounded much better because of the intense emotions I felt while hearing it.

One of the things I like the best is turning the volume up as much as possible because unlike the real world, there is no limit to how loud you can hear because you never actually "hear" it.

Originally Posted by Him

When I wake up and recal the compositions, it's usually a very simple melody that sounded much better because of the intense emotions I felt while hearing it.

This really fits with my experience as well. Nearly every time I hear music in a dream (lucid or otherwise), there are very strong emotions associated with it. Sometimes the music itself is certainly not complex or even very interesting in retrospect, but at the time, it's auditory euphoria.

My dreams tend to have soundtracks which reflect the emotional content of the dream itself - or rather, the music and the dream together create an emotional experience. This also includes horror-based dreams about monsters, being trapped somewhere etc; the music tends to go with the scenario, and it's not always a pleasant scenario!