Thread: Reading music invented by your subconcious

I used to play the piano, and a few months ago I had a series of dreams where I was playing a piece of music straight off a page. The notes were forming up a few bars ahead of where I was playing, and I was getting them all right. In real life, my sight-reading is abysmal, but in this dream I was (or maybe just thought I was)- doing it perfectly.

I could compare it loosely to reading a random story or just a page of writing in a LD- one which just forms up subconsciously as you read it.

My questions are these:
1. Have you ever played a made up song in a LD? What was it like?
2. Do you think the notes on the page could have been correct? (the power of the subconscious mind maybe gives better focus !!)
3. Do you think it would ever be possible to recall the piece of music exactly and compose it in the waking world? -That could really ease the workload of a professional composer...

My answer to question number 1: I haven't but thanks because I'm going to try that, imagine that, you could create your own stage and stuff and get loads of DCs to come watch you haha performing live in a dream would be awesome.

Answer to number 2: I dunno but I highly doubt they were real songs probably just random notes but who knows...

Answer to number 3: maybe? lol

I don't know, I can hear crazy music (of any instrument that I play) in my head whenever I want but I don't have the capacity to just turn around and play it or write it down.

1. Not in an LD
2. Yeah I do
3. Depends on your abilities

Originally Posted by J.D.

I used to play the piano, and a few months ago I had a series of dreams where I was playing a piece of music straight off a page. The notes were forming up a few bars ahead of where I was playing, and I was getting them all right. In real life, my sight-reading is abysmal, but in this dream I was (or maybe just thought I was)- doing it perfectly.

I could compare it loosely to reading a random story or just a page of writing in a LD- one which just forms up subconsciously as you read it.

My questions are these:
1. Have you ever played a made up song in a LD? What was it like?
2. Do you think the notes on the page could have been correct? (the power of the subconscious mind maybe gives better focus !!)
3. Do you think it would ever be possible to recall the piece of music exactly and compose it in the waking world? -That could really ease the workload of a professional composer...

1. No but i'm gonna try that.
2. Yes I think the mind can work faster in dreams.
3. Yes, there's a story of a guy who in his dream the devil was playing the violin for him. I forgot the name of the piece. He didn't remember it exactly though. but it sure is possible.

I've been playing the piano since I was five...


this is a really cool idea
Next time I'm in a dream I'm gonna conjure sheet music and a piano and see what happens.

I have dreams of playing songs, and they are either real songs, or they are just made up songs that just make themselves up as i play it. On stage.

I had a non-lucid a few days back with me playing guitar. There was a girl in my room playing guitar and i just joined in and started playing the same song she was playing. I had never heard the song before, so i guess my subconscious made it up on the fly. I wish i could have remembered how it went, because it sounded pretty good. All i remember is using an open D major chord. In another dream, i saw a picture of a music staff with a few notes on it projected on the wall. I thought to myself that i could read it, but i didn't attempt to.

I think there is a lot of potential with music and lucid dreams. If i get proficient enough at lding and playing guitar, i might just try asking my subconscious for some awesome songs to play (granted that i can remember how they go when i wake up).

When I compose I am playing or writing music I hear in a stream of consiousness. The only difference between this music in waking life and in dreams is that in waking life I know I am just hearing it in my head. I doubt that you could imagine sheet music accurately, sight read it perfecty, and create a good song unless you were insanely good at sight reading.

The other night I had a non-lucid dream where a friend (dream character) told me to listen to these variations on Beethovens 9th. I dont remember what it sounded like, but it totally blew my mind at the time. Too bad I didnt realize that I composed it.

You should try asking dream characters to play you some music. Go into a record store in a dream and tell the dream characters that work there to put on the greatest music they have ever heard. Unless they play a song that you know, it is completely your composition.

Let me know if you figure out how to remember the music in your dreams accurately.

I've been a musician for almost a decade now. I can tell you I occasionally get the same thing. I play mostly by ear, so my reading is lacking. I can DO it, just not as fast as my friends.

A couple of times I've had sheet music in my dreams. I've been remembering a little bit of it at a time, so I'm about 3/5 of the way through the music written down here in the real. I know it's the same music, because the melody is omnipresent throughout my dream.

How epic is that? We're music geeks!

Indeed, music is amazing in dreams. Its AS realistic and you never suck at playing it.

Originally Posted by Darkborne

I've been a musician for almost a decade now. I can tell you I occasionally get the same thing. I play mostly by ear, so my reading is lacking. I can DO it, just not as fast as my friends.

A couple of times I've had sheet music in my dreams. I've been remembering a little bit of it at a time, so I'm about 3/5 of the way through the music written down here in the real. I know it's the same music, because the melody is omnipresent throughout my dream.

How epic is that? We're music geeks!

Nice! If you want, post it here. It's be cool to see.

Well, when I finally get it all written down, you'll be the first to know! I've been getting about 1 a month. It's nice. Thanks to lucid dreaming I have the memory for detail necessary to remember the music.

there was music in my dream last night, I wrote out the sheet music it's in my DJ here
http://dreamviews.com/community/show...42&postcount=2

I hope you don't mind me linking it in. That's pretty cool, I'll play it later! So it's a scary tune?