Music in your dreams?

[SeanHannifin]

Anybody else ever have music in their dreams? Over the past few years I am suddenly experiencing the sound of music in my dreams . . . which is pretty wierd, I think. Also when I'm in that trance-like alpha state, I can sometimes hear the very definite sound of music . . . like a sound hallucination . . . if only I could get my music to sound as good with GPO as it does in my head . . . :D

Does this kind of stuff happen to anybody else?

[Kevin B. Selby]

Okay, I'll let ya in on the weirdness of me.

For about the last 2 years I have had a recurring dream (somewhat of a nightmare) where EITHER I'm actually performing live in a really cool auditorium that we have at the place where I work (and I grew up giving piano recitals with other little boys and girls in this same auditorium which makes it doubly weird) and for some reason nobody has moved the Baldwin 8' grand piano out to the front of the stage, but instead, it's tucked WAAAY back at the back of the stage where I can barely see the audience and I can't talk to them and I keep trying to move it out to the front of the stage and I can never get it out there...

-or-

I have a live concert that day (in my dream) and I CANNOT GET TO THE CONCERT HALL TO SAVE MY EVER LOVING LIFE....it's like the dream where you're running and you can't get anywhere. I keep driving and driving and getting caught in traffic or at the store or ANYTHING but the concert hall.

I must say, after I started gigging somewhat this last several months (and it's been quite fun), I haven't had those dreams, but man, it was like someone was telling me something.

And that, is my brain. THIS, is my brain on GPO: :D

[FredProgGH]

All the time. It always ends up one of three things:

When I wake up its forgotten. These are, of course, masterpieces.

When I wake up and have a chance to really think about it I realize it's terrible.

If it's not terrible its because it's really something someone else wrote.

[FredProgGH]

-or-

I have a live concert that day (in my dream) and I CANNOT GET TO THE CONCERT HALL TO SAVE MY EVER LOVING LIFE....it's like the dream where you're running and you can't get anywhere. I keep driving and driving and getting caught in traffic or at the store or ANYTHING but the concert hall.



OH!! YOU TOO!! i hate that dream.

(I also had the dream when I was younger where I went to a Yes concert and Rick Wakeman got sick so they ask me to sit in :D :D :D- that's like the flying dream)

[SeanHannifin]

:D Ah, that's good hear . . . I'm not crazy or anything . . .

[Garritan]

Anybody else ever have music in their dreams? Over the past few years I am suddenly experiencing the sound of music in my dreams . . . which is pretty wierd, I think. Also when I'm in that trance-like alpha state, I can sometimes hear the very definite sound of music . . . like a sound hallucination . . . if only I could get my music to sound as good with GPO as it does in my head . . . :D

Does this kind of stuff happen to anybody else? Yes, it has happened to me. There is a great deal of information on lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is being able to know you are dreaming in the dream state. It is a fascinating topic.

A few years back, during a lunch with harpist Andreas Vollenweider the topic of dreaming and composition came up. He said that he kept pencil and paper near his bed and he would jot down musical ideas from his dreams. This approach seems to have worked well as he won a Grammy. :)

Sweet musical dreams.

Gary Garritan

[Joseph Burrell]

Go watch Waking Life. Best 'dream' themed indie film I've seen.

Also Vanilla Sky is great too!

[Joseph Burrell]

And BTW, I don't dream....

Because I don't SLEEP!

[SeanHannifin]

Lucid dreams . . . those things are quite wierd. The first time I had one, I got so excited that I woke up! They're hard to get, but with self-training they supposed to be easy to achieve.

There are devises (that are expensive) that you can wear over your eyes when you go to sleep. The device detects rapid eye movement (the common sign that you are in the dreaming phase of sleep) and a faint red light flashes. Supposedly it flashes with just the right amount of intensity that it won't wake you up but you'll be able to detect it in your dream, and after a few nights, you'll be able to realize your dreaming when you are. When that happens, things get exciting. I can't afford one of those, but there are other methods, if you do a Google search.

I've had only two lucid dreams (discluding the first one that made me wake up). In both, I decided to fly! Weeee! Another thing you can do is give yourself and extra set of arms or something . . . and you'll actually be able to feel it. :eek: It's quite exciting, but the whole time it's hard to believe that your mind is making it all up . . . the brain is powerful if you can get it in the right state . . . if you can get those neurons firing the right way, you can do anything through hallucinations and dreams! :D

Of course, you might hurt yourself with those hallucinations . . .

I'd love to be able to write down melodies at will, but unfortunately, since I'm so darn inexperienced, I need a keyboard to make sure I'm right . . . currently I use my cell phone's voice memo to remember melodies that pop into my head, but I don't always have my phone, so some melodies are simply lost forever, into the abyss . . . especially the ones from dreams :(

[mistahamma]

I have a live concert that day (in my dream) and I CANNOT GET TO THE CONCERT HALL TO SAVE MY EVER LOVING LIFE....it's like the dream where you're running and you can't get anywhere. I keep driving and driving and getting caught in traffic or at the store or ANYTHING but the concert hall.


I've been gigging for years, and I still have a variation of that dream: I actually make it to the concert about 3 minutes before it begins, only to find that none of my gear is hooked up -- no power to the synths, can't find an outlet, patch cords are missing, guitar is still in the case. Concert starts and I am completely unprepared. Very frustrating.

But I hear music all the time in my dreams. They tend to be pretty cinematic -- big orchestral track at times, vivid colors, awesome special effects. Sometimes the tunes stick with me when I wake up, but usually not.

Jim

[danveach]

What a great idea to use your cell phone to record melodies! I was lucky enough recently to wake up while I was playing a smashing piano concerto in my dream (which is ironic since I can't play worth a hoot). I rushed to the piano while the theme was still fresh in my mind. And it was a darn good theme too. (My wife also found it very amusing to hear me banging on the piano at 6 in the morning :eek: .)

[Styxx]

I am suddenly experiencing the sound of music in my dreams . . . As long as you don't wake up singing, "Do, a deer a female deer, ray, a pocket full of sun,.... :D
Anyhow, in answer to you question, yes...most of my dreams have some sort of music involved. But, unlike most, the sound is still in my head when I wake. It is the rhetoric of the morning that blows it away! There have been times where I will fire up my system and try, and I emphasize "TRY", to put it all down before I forget. Problem always turns out to be the substance of the music as a whole fades after a few bars or so. It is frustrating to say the least.
I know of a teacher who constantly leaves her recorder on at night with a mic near her pillow. As dumb as it may sound, she has written some interesting music claiming it came from her dream. She actually sings in her sleep. Something I find bizarre but not unimaginable. Actually, she has admitted to waking up and singing into the mic the melody she had heard in her dreams.
If I had a dime for every musical sound I dreamt, I would not be in the position I am today.

[danpowers]

One time, I had a dream which was pure music. It was an octet for four clarinets and four bassoons, which was fairly long and fully realized. Of course, when I woke up, I couldn't remember a note of it. :mad:

[Styxx]

"In Your Dreams"! Hey, maybe that's where that came from? :p
I think we need to start developing a neurological interface like Data from Star Trek New Generation. Just think of it, you would plug in before you would go to sleep, turn on the PC with everything all set ready to go! Just DONT turn on any video software incase your dream(s) happen to involve something we need not wish to view! :D
Make it so Mr. Data! :D

[Styxx]

You know what is worse? I'm sitting here doing research and there is a dynamic string Vivaldi type music running through my brain (not much to run through) and NO GPO TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :mad:

[SeanHannifin]

:D Yes, a device that would record the music of our dreams would be pretty darn handy!

[Styxx]

I went out with this beautiful girl once and asked her if she wanted to make beautiful music together. She said, "In your dreams!" :D
She now conducts the Oprah Orchestra.

[Garritan]

:D Yes, a device that would record the music of our dreams would be pretty darn handy! Our top secret project will let you record the music of your dreams....
(So secret I don't even know about it)

GPO to Brain Device


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[SeanHannifin]

:D Ha! Do we need brain surgery to get that implanted? (Since it's an implant device, I would guess so . . . I've always wanted brain surgery anyway.) Also, can I have it for free for the 37,000th post? :D

[DPDAN]

I just realized that all my GPO Christmas music compositions all sound sad :confused:
I'm gonna try to do some more that is happy sounding :)
I think we are all dreaming most of the time. :D

[Jerry W.]

i am positive I hear music in my dreams - only, I cannot remember my dreams. And when I do, they are all weird, and make no sense.

I only have those kinds of dreams if I get the rare chance and sleep over 7 hours. Those are the times when i actually remember things. I am sure I dream all the time, but just never remember them. When I wake up, music is often running (sometimes loudly) in my head. Mostly stuff I have never heard before, so I am sure those melodies are remnants of whatever dreams I had.


Now that the contest is over, maybe I can sleep long enough to remember some of these dreams! :)

Jerry