Music in LDs

**Tranquil Toad** · 06-06-2007 03:16 AM

First off, like to say hey to everyone since this is my first post (been lurking for a little bit), so *wave*.

Anywise, I have heard in the past of musicians using dreams to enhance their creativity, the one that comes to mind foremost is Aphex Twin, who's album Selected Ambient Works Volume 2 was said to be composed from the sounds he heard in lucid dreams, then later replicated as best he could into that album. I found that quite fascinating, so I decided to try some experiments in my own lucid dreams with music (though i have no musical background and play no instruments). So the next time i found myself lucid in my room, which seems to be where i start out lucid 50% of the time, i popped on to my computer and loading up itunes, double clicked on a song and let it play. The song that played was nothing that I had ever heard before in waking life (at least as far as i could remember at the time); my brain was able to create an entire composition on the spot, with guitars, drums and bass. While it didn't sound brilliant, it was certainly a decent piece of music that, if played by a real band, would be quite respectable. In this case it sounded like grunge music, though I have tried a few other times and gotten things like trance. Amazing that our mind has this potential! Like to hear about your own thoughts and experiences on music in dreams.

**arby** · 06-06-2007 03:39 AM

The fascinating this is: Its not our "dream" thats composing that song. Its you. Its your mind. We have all that ability and more. In the dream you simply sent an invitation out to you sub-conscious to make that song for you. Imagine if you could access that part of your mind in waking life and control it to get you a true masterpiece.

This is one of the prime reasons I like to study my dreams and how/what creates them.

**Tranquil Toad** · 06-06-2007 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by arby

The fascinating this is: Its not our "dream" thats composing that song. Its you. Its your mind. We have all that ability and more. In the dream you simply sent an invitation out to you sub-conscious to make that song for you. Imagine if you could access that part of your mind in waking life and control it to get you a true masterpiece.

This is one of the prime reasons I like to study my dreams and how/what creates them.

You're right, if we can do stuff like this in a dream it really makes you think that our minds are sort of dumbed down in our waking life. I'm hoping one day we will realize and unleash their (our) full potential.

**skysaw** · 06-06-2007 02:33 PM

I'm a composer, and have had many, many dreams where amazing orchestral works of mine were being performed. I almost never remember enough details of the music to capture it when I wake, though I have a few times. I also believe that some of the music in my dreams simply "doesn't work" in real life... it could only work in a dream.

I wrote a suite of orchestral works based on imagery that came to me in late-night semi-sleep (hypnogogic) stages. I was going through a bought of insomnia, and often wrote music very late into the morning while imagining crazy things. The suite is called Five Unlikely Visions and was premiered by the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic in October '06.

Here's one of the movements:

Suddenly Moths

The rest can be found on my website linked in my signature on the "Listen" page.

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