Music in lucid dreams

**Tommo32** · 05-13-2010 02:36 AM

Had some really interesting experiences in creating music during LDs. Visually i cant remember much from these, just a boring backdrop of my street or something, but superimposed over the top is a kind of blurry music creation program. Similar to something like Music 2000 on the playstation. Im able to add sounds, instruments and melodies and then play it back and listen in what seems like real time.

Ive done this 3 or 4 times and tried different styles of music. The most recent one i can remember, i created this kind of club dance/trance track. I remember listening back to the euphoric uplifting melodies that i just created and thinking how amazing it sounded. It was so clear as though i was listening to a CD. I thought to myself i have to memorise this song so i can transfer it into the real world but when i awoke that morning i struggled to recall it properly. Whenever i have one of these dreams im never able to fully remember it, just a hazy memory like a song you heard 10 years ago but never found out what it was. Its a bummer, because during the LD the music is so clear and vivid.

Anyone else focused on music in their dreams?

**Puffin** · 05-13-2010 08:27 PM

Wow, I've never tried creating music like that.
I have played certain songs in the background of my dreams though, through expectation that the music would be playing. But it doesn't sound exactly the same as in reality.

**Clyde Machine** · 05-14-2010 01:40 AM

That's crazy-cool, Tommo32. Wish I could say I've done it - however, even though one of my lucid goals has been to create music and/or lyrics within a lucid dream, I haven't yet made music at all. Often times music does show up in my dreams in one of two ways: I either hear the song and may choose to sing along with it, or I start to sing a song I know. But I've never made new music.

**Tommo32** · 05-14-2010 02:20 AM

Strange thing is whenever its happened ive only become lucid once i start messing about with the music. Up to that point its just a regular dream so i guess it must trigger it. Ive still yet to become lucid and then say "Right, i wanna make some music now", it never seems to work like that.

When it does happen though its really cool, aurally theyre some of the most vivid and clear LDs ive had. Its like it sacrifices the visuals for better sound quality.

**Perlinfalcon** · 05-20-2010 06:43 PM

I've only had two good stable lucids so far, and I heard music in both of them. In both cases they were songs I did not know in RL, but were very clear like I was listening to a cd. I tried to remember them on waking, but only had a vague notion of them.

As a songwriter, I would really like to hear a song in an LD that I have not written yet. It's one of my goals for lucid dreaming. It would be a great way to write a song!