Music

In dreams, I can hear music so clearly. Words are always jumbled while sung, almost sounding like backwards messages, but notes are very clear and harmonies can be beautiful. However, I've only heard music a few times in dreams, or at least had it as the main focus, but each time it was something I had never heard before, indescribable, like songs I've already made lying dormant somewhere in my mind.

This is one of my main motivations for lucid dreaming... this discovery of how vivid music is, I see a great potential for creating music if I can just remember and somewhat control what is produced.

Has anyone else had experiences with music in their dreams?

I've heard some really nice music in my dreams, but I ALWAYS have a hard time remembering how the music went after I wake up.

I'm semi-convinced that I don't really hear one single piece of good music, and that my brain just tells me that I'm hearing good music so I believe I am. Sort of like when you try to read in a dream, and it keeps changing.

I think it's because unless you KNOW the WHOLE song with every beat and harmony or whatever it's going to jumble up because if you've just heard that song a few times or never memorized it then it's just gonna be the parts you remembered or how you perceived it at the time.

I think your mind is capable of creating its own music... music is a language with many possibilities and just as your brain will form sentences you may have never used or heard before from the many combinations of words at its disposal, I believe the chance exists that it can take all the notes stored in its memory and have them interact in new harmonic and melodic ways..

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I'm semi-convinced that I don't really hear one single piece of good music, and that my brain just tells me that I'm hearing good music so I believe I am. Sort of like when you try to read in a dream, and it keeps changing.

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In the dream world I don't think there is a distinction between the actuality of something and just perceiving it... its all just perceptions, none of it is techincally "real", so your brain telling you and you believing it is the reason anything at all ever happens in your dreams...