Thread: Instruments

I'm not speaking from direct experience, but many people have posted that practicing something in their lucid dreams makes them better in waking life.

Remembering a bass line when you're awake is just like keeping a dream journal. You'll keep the dream baseline if you record it as soon as you wake up. Recording it means playing it so you'll remember it later, or writing it however you write your music. I love this idea of taking our dream world creativity into waking life!

considering that guitar playing most mostly knowing wear to put your fingers, i would say yes, you can practice playing guitar in your dreams. depending on your dream recall, you may be able to remember a created base line in your dreams. good luck. it sounds like it would be, well, "inspiring."

no offense, but i dont know why you would want to waste a dream on learning to play the guitar when you could just as easily do it in real life. why not spend you dream flying to the sun and defeating the ice monster with all the sun people that sounds like a dream well used

Originally Posted by Casualtie

no offense, but i dont know why you would want to waste a dream on learning to play the guitar when you could just as easily do it in real life. why not spend you dream flying to the sun and defeating the ice monster with all the sun people that sounds like a dream well used [/b]

I think writing a great song in your sleep is a MUCH better use of a dream than going on some fantasy adventure that's basically the same as a typical non-lucid dream, except that at some point you say "I'm dreaming!"

Dub: "I think writing a great song in your sleep is a MUCH better use of a dream than going on some fantasy adventure that's basically the same as a typical non-lucid dream, except that at some point you say "I'm dreaming!"

Very well-said, Dub.

I used to be on the periphery of the music biz (semi-pro bands) and two things re music and LD come to mind:

The first was in about 1978 when my co-guitarist told me of a strange dream he'd had where he was taught a new technique by an old man sitting on a park bench.

He showed us what the old man had shown him, which was a way of playing with two hands tapping the fretboard, a technique we'd never dreamt of. So, we each took it on and gave it our own spin, and started to use it in our playing. A couple of years later, when Michael Jackson's "Beat it" came out with the seminal tapping solo by Eddie Van Halen, we were astounded..

Ther second notable event was a lucid dream I had:

I suddenly "came on", looked at my hands, and realised that I was having a lucid dream, outdoors in a semi-desert landscape, surrounded by a crowd of mannish-looking blonde women, here-and-there interspersed with what I can only describe as animated ancient Egyptian figures, very tall humanoids covered in gold decoration.

The crowd was gravitating towards a particular area, so I went with the flow and followed the crowd. I ended up facing a stage, upon which were several of the mannish women holding guitars. Then they started playing the most catchy intriguing pop song that I'd ever heard. I thought to myself "What is this?" and quick-as-a-flash a disembodied voice boomed out "It's your new single.."

So, I stood by that stage drinking in the song, working out the chords, memorising the melody until I was soaked in it..

...and then I performed the "rolling pass" to wake myself up deliberately..

..and guess what? I could not remember one note of the song, the song that I thought I had memorised..


..but such is LD.

well hopefully if i start to have lucid dreams often then there will be times to dream of playing bass and times to dream of fighting ninjas or whatever you want to do