Thread: Music in a Lucid Dream

Originally Posted by anotherdreamer

I did this intentionally in a dream a couple months ago.

^ I love that you made music play from the heavens for us!

You guys might be interested in reading Raven Knight's DJ:
Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views - New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight - Dream Journals
She uses music heavily in her LDs, with specific songs unlocking different dream powers.

I hear music playing in the background of my lucid and non-lucid dreams quite often, both real songs and original music.
I occasionally take note, but it's not usually something I pay particular attention to. Perhaps I will in future.
I've tried playing existing songs on various instruments in LDs with varying levels of success. I seem to perform way better with instruments I don't play IWL, whereas I struggle with instruments I do. I don't have a very nice singing voice in dreams either, which is a shame, because I've heard about people (CanisLucidus comes to mind) who have amazing dream-voices!

As for existing songs that I'd like to hear in a future LD...
The first thing that comes to mind is any MIDI sequence from a game, and then I'd try to shift the pitch to see if it would play correctly in another key, or change instruments halfway through the song.

EDIT: I remembered something else I've done in a few dreams!
I used to work as a freelance filmmaker IWL, and some of my early work was making music videos.
I've made a few films in dreams before (lucid and non,) including music videos and films with soundtracks. The most recent one was a semi-lucid dream where I made a music video for Rihanna. She's not an artist I'm a huge fan of IWL, but it was an original song with her voice/style, and I used some cool dream powers to make shapes with electricity to match the sound of her music, like cubic Tesla coils.