composing music in my dreams

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My magic guitar playing was sooo good last night. I kept going back to sleep after I woke up just so I could keep playing. The drems were lucid and memorable. I remember experimenting with lots of ideas until I found the song that sounded best. Bur I'd kill just to hear the improv sessions.
It's so much easier finding the exact sound you want when you are dreaming. There's no hurdles standing in your way.

When reality came creeping in, I could still hear myself fiddling around on my magic guitar. The sounds/ideas became less varied as my mind found singularity. The last bit of music was very Zeppelin-esque

that's cute, but it's WRONG (CaptainLorax), Monday, 12 September 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

six months pass...

Okay, I know the last post for this was a couple of months ago, but I just wanted to say that this started to happen to me about 1 or 2 years ago. Never happened to me before. I wouldn't be the composer in my dreams, but they would always have background music, like a TV show or movie, or I'd be at a club with music playing. It could be of any genre: rock, alternative, classical, rap or freestyle(house/club). These songs were so good, I honestly thought I was just remembering songs from my childhood that have been long forgotten, but I realized soon through internet searches that these songs don't exist. I once wrote down the rap lyrics as soon as I woke up, and I realized these words are much too complex to have thought up quickly in my dreams... I wouldn't be able to do that in real life. Also, I finally remembered the melody and an entire hook for one song which is titled: "love and the dark". Oh man, this song sounds awesome. I wish I had real musical talent to capitalize on this.

TheDarkAss, Monday, 26 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

lol, i was talking about something similar on the "non-ILX dreams" thread not too long ago. i often hear pop music in my dreams, music that seems super-great to me. when i wake up, if i have a dream song running through my head, i'll hurriedly sing it into my phone so that i don't forget it. in the process, a lot of the detail and harmony gets lost, but i can usually at least get the general gist down. they're not often so remarkable as they seemed while i was asleep, are sometimes just mutated versions of existing songs, but every once in a while, i get something really good. about half the songs i've contributed to my "band" have come from dreams.

yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

this happened twice to me this week. first time the song was so great and i was building it up and adding breakdowns and cool little bits and it was just so, so great I was so proud and then I woke up.

next time, I dreamt I was breaking into a hotel to steal samples so I could make a remix of French Montana's Unforgettable.

Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

i too have made music and experienced magic guitar playing many times over the years, and almost never have i retained any of it upon waking. except once! i had a brilliant riff going. woke up and immediately picked up my real and not magic guitar and started banging it out. turns out it was the opening notes of the crystals' "and then he kissed me." which made me laugh so hard. i popped a tape in the four-track and made a song with it anyway.

andrew m., Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link

For some reason when I do this it's always progressive trance

but everybody calls me, (lukas), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link


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