Thread: Musical Composing in LD's?

I guess you could, if you know what all the notes and chords sound like.

What I do each day is play all the chords from C to B flat on an electronic keyboard, and play the note in which the chord is named. So if it is an A chord, I play the A note. Then I go onto A sharp/B flat, then B, and so on and so forth. If you can recognize them in your head, I'm sure you could do it in your dream.

It can be done.

I guess you could, if you know what all the notes and chords sound like.

The best thing is, you don't have to.

there's no way in hell I'll be able to remember something from a friggin' dream, lucid or not.

Repeat to yourself "I will recall this melody when I wake up" and wake yourself up (in the "teleported to bed" fashion). I managed to remember about four measures with this method p;

Here's an example of what I meant.

Imagine a piano.
On that piano, you have several keys.

You would need to ASSIGN the proper note and tone to the keys you're going to press somehow.
If you were playing Chopsticks in the key of 'E' ( Four sharps :O ), you wouldn't be pressing the 'G' and 'F' keys repeatedly like you would if you were playing it in the key of G.

Am I making sense here?? :S

ill tell u what it defenitly works... i had a dream i was doing jui jistu which i do in real life and i used different techniques in my dream it wasnt a lucid dream but very vivid and the moves in my dream made me improve in real llife

Originally Posted by Dairyman

Here's an example of what I meant.

Imagine a piano.
On that piano, you have several keys.

You would need to ASSIGN the proper note and tone to the keys you're going to press somehow.
If you were playing Chopsticks in the key of 'E' ( Four sharps :O ), you wouldn't be pressing the 'G' and 'F' keys repeatedly like you would if you were playing it in the key of G.

Am I making sense here?? :S

No...? If you expect it to work like a real piano, presumably your mind will recall which notes each key produces.

It's a magic piano. Just press the keys, and it plays the melody you want it to. :s

That's something I've wanted to try - playing an instrument I can't play. I tried singing the other night; can't remember if it worked or not.

im an amateur muso as well. ive played original songs (i play guitar) in nonlucid dreams and been able to remember them when i wake. the key is to get straight onto the guitar and play it, then write it down. it helps to play it before you write, keeps it fresher and then you dont get gaps, missing bars and such.

yes it can be done, it's a good way to get past writer's block but the problem is recalling what u have written in ur dream - i've been playing various instruments since i was 3, been playing bass for 20yrs, guitar and singing for about 14yrs and in bands for about 16 or so, didn't start writing until picked up the guitar...

i've had lucid dreams where i wrote lyrics and was able to recall a majority when i woke up, i have came up with guitar riffs & bass lines and even played shows at fictional venues with my band where we played songs i had written in the dream on the way to the show and re-played shows where i fixed previous mistakes, like deja-vu in a dream...

if i can think of any that i have recorded that were lucid i will post 'em - if u want a link to my band's myspace then PM me...

My third lucid dream (which happend to me yesterday) had music playing in it. You see I was at this dance club and there was this stereo playing music. It had music but no singing. I don't think the song that was playing is invented yet. I started dancing in my dream to the music. No one was dancing with me. So I (since I was lucid) started singing to myself "I'm dancing with myself" from the song I'm dancing with myself. Then eveybody there starts doing the irish jig behind my back in rows, which I find funny. I think it was the first time I ever had music in my lucid dream, a dream for that matter.

You would need to ASSIGN the proper note and tone to the keys you're going to press somehow.

Well somehow, the brain does it automatically (at least in my case it did) ^^