Hi, everybody.

I'm a very serious and focused person. This, strangely enough, I owe mostly to my commitment as a musician. I, like most people who play guitar, absent mindedly noodled throughout high school, but when I fell in love with Jazz, I learned to apply myself in a whole new way. I can play any of the modes from the major scale, jazz minor, harmonic minor, or harmonic major, as well as the symmetrical diminished scale(s) and wholetone scale, in all keys, sixteenth notes between 120-130 bpm. I can also play most of the common chord voicings(triads and sevenths) fluently, taught myself to read music, and am learning to fire through chord changes like a pro.

I'm incredibly proud of my accomplishments, but I didn't come here to brag. I know that I'm very fortunate to have all of the passion and pure dumb luck that has led me to this point, though I still have a long, winding path.

I discovered not long ago that "perfect pitch" or "absolute pitch," a phenomenon long believed to be inborn and unlearnable, a strictly natural talent, has been proven in University studies to be learnable! This has taken long to receive recognition, just like lucid dreaming. In fact, I had a Music History professor tell me just last year that it is impossible to learn perfect pitch (the ability to hear in your head, independent of any external stimulus, any given tone.) Along with my discovery now that lucid dreaming is a confirmed scientific phenomenon as well, I can't help but see a connection.

Mozart, Beethoven, Frank Sinatra, and many other of the greatest of all time were born with perfect pitch. Those who possess it compare it to hearing music in colour rather than black and white. Relative pitch, the traditionally learned form of ear training, is the association between pitches, and is like the clarity of picture.

Thanks for reading my essay so far. Nobody's holding a gun to your head, but I'm flattered you're still following.

Ok, now I clearly see a similarity between these abilities. Both have long been believed to be non-learnable, unconscious processes. From what I hear from Lucid Dreamers, most of the "naturals," including Dr. Laberge, had lucid dreams in childhood. Just so, with perfect pitch it has long been believed to manifest only in childhood, if you miss the boat you can never acquire it.

My daily practise, besides the hours of wood shedding I spend with my guitar, has now included, for a few months, 45 minutes of ear training. I now have daily LD practises as well-- DJ, RC, ADA, and MILD are my current go-to methods. I have yet to become conscious in the dream world, but I stopped smoking pot (daily user for 10 years) and I generally recall at least one highly vivid dream a night. I know I will find myself lucid in no time at all, with my commitment, and you must have guessed my goal by now... Absolute pitch is in my brain somewhere, and I'm going in after it!!

Thanks for reading, I didn't know how to be any more brief about the subject, it's my introduction after all! Wish me luck.