Thread: Do any of you lucid dream for creative/artistic betterment

It's a major thing that I want to do.

I really want to create poetry, music, and paintings in my dreams then reproduce them in waking life. I just haven't yet gotten to it as I'm relatively new to the dreaming universe and have mostly been experimenting and exploring so far.

For poetry, writing, lyrics, or other things you could either just create it on your own because your mind is much more creative I find in dreams, or you could conjure it up and let the subconscious do the work.

To conjure it up you would just need to say to yourself while lucid, "There will be a poem written on the wall when I turn around, or on the table, or on the paper when I flip it over, etc."

For music, you could always just say, "Music play now!" And music will most likely start playing, and it will probably be very beautiful and original.

For tactile art such as painting and drawing, just look around you! You can be inspired by so much of the dream world for some art. And you could always conjure something up if you want some extra.

One of the greatest things that you can do for creativity is sleep on an idea. There's a man who gets paid a lot of money to come up with ideas for businesses and people, and he'll always close his blinds, lock his office door and take a nap, and when he wakes up he usually has the ideas that get him money. Lucidity can only increase this as you would be consciously asserting the problem and subconsciously answering it.

What were you thinking of doing in your dreams?

Welcome to DV! Hope you have many many lucid dreams in the near future!

Thats the main reason I LD now. I'm an artist, architect, and sculptor. I use my lucid dreams for working out new designs and as inspiration for new work.

As for 'how' I do it? I use dream incubation almost nightly. I like to create new landscapes that I can later translate into paintings. I will come up with the basic scene, and hold it in my mind like you would with a VILD. I don't need to move directly from waking to sleep for this to work, and I do it either before i first go to sleep, or during a WBTB.

Lately, I have been trying to combine multiple scenes into one, with very interesting results. I will cycle through three scenes in my mind as I fall asleep, and then my brain will combine them into a composite in my dreams.

Sometimes, when I'm stuck on an architectural design, I will study the plans and elevations right before bed or during a WBTB. I can then remember them in a Lucid dream, or have a regular dream about them. I find either one very helpful.

Even random dreams can become awesome inspiration for new work. Your brain can come up with some crazy ideas that you never would have considered while awake.

Salvador Dali was a WILD expert. He was around before lucid dreaming was accepted psychology, but during a lecture on surrealism a professor said that he would put himself into a trance and step into surreal landscapes that he would paint from. I did some research on his method and it looked like a WILD to me.

I think lucids are a great way to unlock creative sections of your mind you never knew existed. I would fully reccomend being lucid for the sake of creativity.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Salvador Dali was a WILD expert. He was around before lucid dreaming was accepted psychology, but during a lecture on surrealism a professor said that he would put himself into a trance and step into surreal landscapes that he would paint from. I did some research on his method and it looked like a WILD to me.

I always thought it was the drugs.

Originally Posted by Abra

I always thought it was the drugs.

They probably helped LOL. Similar effect anyway.

Artistic development is one of my bigger goals for lucid dreaming. A project ive been wanting to do lately to add to a portfolio for an art school later on, or even an animating job, is to design my car into an autobot transformer.

In a lucid dream not too long ago i stood in front of my car and i said out loud "I hope my car doesn't transform!" Lo and behold it separated out and began transforming, just like in the 2007 movie. i could see every single mechanical part moving and starting to form the shape of a giant robot. Of course, i got too excited and woke up

But nonetheless, that's only the beginning

I will use the lucid capabilities for film making. If i ever do become lucid, I will try to create the greatest story ever told. Or just make up a good story with a good plot. Then in waking life, write the screenplay. I'd probably try to make a scene in my dream, wake up right it down. Dream up the next scene, and write it down. and so on an so on.

But I probably won't become lucid soon. Still working on dream recall.

Thats part of the reason I lucid dream. I want to get Ideas for stories and possibly songs. Today or yesterday when I woke up, I had a song that I never heard before stuck in my head, so I think in a lucid dream I could come up with a cool song. other wise I would do some other things.