Had an interesting experience. I added a goal directed statement to my mantra, "I will find out how to acquire perfect pitch." So far not lucid, but out of a night of very vivid dreams, the final one I had was the form of a music clinic, with two famous pianists, so I think that's relevant! They weren't anybody I knew, but at the same time I knew they were both a really big deal. They were both in their fifties or sixties, both wearing suits. One was a white man sitting at his piano with his back to me, so I couldn't make out his face, and the other was a black man facing the opposite way and about 45 degrees from the center of my field of vision. When he wasn't playing, he sat, slouched, looking at the other musician and myself, and he seemed very familiar. Kind of a stereotypical countenance of the wise, black musician.

The musician with his back to me began playing his music, and it was so clear and beautiful and alien I really don't understand how it could have come from my mind alone. It was more of an avante-garde classical performance, full of space and sort of jarring. After he was done the musicians spoke briefly, the only time in the dream that they did. They described their influences, I couldn't remember the first man's, and the second said that he learned a lot from Wayne Shorter. (This is possible, though Wayne Shorter would not be much older than this man.) He said, "you get out what you put in." And played a very hip, creepy sort of sixties type piece. Before long, however, he changed into a saxophonist, whose tone sounded very electronic and sort of unpleasant, and I began to lose the colours of what he was playing. I believe this was my sort of slipping out of the dream as I woke up.

Anyway, I think that's a clear response to my mantra!