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Do any of you have vivid dreams? I have insanely lucid dreams that I can control/manipulate to a certain degree. I am no expert in lucid dreaming, however since I was a young child I have been able to function and communicate in my dreams. It's very life like, sometimes I have awoken and wondered if these dreams actually happened. Sometimes I wish they did, ha! While others I'm appreciative they didn't.

 

I would say the majority of my dreams include some sort of activity that I focus a large amount of my time on. In the past year the focus of my free time has been music so naturally my dreams contain a decent amount of it. Sometimes I play the guitar with facility I just don't have in my "real" life, while others I can't seem to pluck a note. It's interesting this dynamic, and sometimes I try and express what my dreams hold and implement technique or patterns that were emphasized to me during these sleepy states.

 

Last night I had a rather vivid dream in which I attended a show/concert. Instead of my usual playing dreams this one had me in the audience at some sort of psychobilly/rock show. It was reminicant of JSBX meets The Adicts in both the sound of the music as well as the attire of the musicians. I couldn't get past the sound of the music and how spectacular it was to my ears. On top of this sonic display I was in trance by the equipment the band was playing, most of which were vintage amplifiers I have heard but never played. Anyways, as I shuttered in my visuals of the dream the amplifiers morphed into a variety of unknown make/models that really turned my attention. One in particular was a 1484 Silvertone set up with a modified head on top of the stock with a custom engraved metal logo on the front. I was really attracted to this particular piece and just as I was beginning to jot down in my memory what I ejoyed, BAM. I woke up.

 

I know this was a bit off the topic, but I felt like I should share...

 

Anyone have any spectacular music related dreams? Although this dream/story wasn't that incredible, it just felt SO real and perhaps a discussion could made on dreaming and playing music. Or engaging with music while sleeping.

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Yeah but mine are filled with equations. I wish I was kidding, but I used to get up in the middle of the night with an idea and then I'd work on it. I'm too old to do this now (need my sleep). So I meditate to help me relax and sleep. I never had music related dreams though. Those would be more fun! Maybe tonight I'll have one. :rolleyes:

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Yeah but mine are filled with equations. I wish I was kidding, but I used to get up in the middle of the night with an idea and then I'd work on it. I'm too old to do this now (need my sleep). So I meditate to help me relax and sleep. I never had music related dreams though. Those would be more fun! Maybe tonight I'll have one. :rolleyes:

 

That's pretty rad! Even if it is tiring, an over active imagination is exactly what Nikola Tesla and other life changing inventors have been blessed with. Of course this could be interpreted as a burden, however with your meditation and focus some good rest should be in store. Perhaps a nice music related dream!

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at least half my dreams are of me, playing much better than my arthritis will allow, then in my sleep I realize i'm dreaming and just let it play out until the "dream channel" changes.

i'm usually aware of and able to control my dreams to a degree.....i've lived on "combat sleep" for way too many years now, but at least i'm asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.... I mean off like a lightswitch!!

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It was nighttime and dark outside, and I was fishing in the surf. I cast my line a few times when I hooked something very large. I pulled on that line, and I pulled, and I pulled. After a few minutes, I reeled in my line only to discover that I had landed Dean Martin's house boat.

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One morning my alarm clock went off, I hit the button on top but in was still going off. I pulled the button in and out a few times but it was still going off. I pulled the battery and it was still going off, this made me angry so I through it across the room and it broke but it was still going off, then I woke up and switched my alarm off.

 

Never had any dreams where I've heard music that I hadn't heard before, the opens up some very interesting questions.

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None of my own that I can recall at the moment, but I'll relate one I read about. Reading a Guitar Player (I think) interview with Stevie Ray Vaughan shortly before his death, he said he dreamed he was jamming with Hendrix. Hendrix was showing him some incredible stuff, and as he awoke he immediately tried to keep it in his head. As put thought into trying to repeat what they'd been playing, he realized it was impossible, as they'd been playing between the strings and the fretboard...

 

Dreams can be very cool, and startlingly real. There is a freedom there (freedom from physics for example). Lucid dreaming is something I've read a book on, never really cultivated it (perhaps I should).

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I once dreamed that Eric Carr let me play his drums at a soundcheck for the Creatures Of The Night tour in 1982-3 (last tour with makeup and first with Vinnie Vincent). I also dreamed that I was in a Super Mario-type video game with Highway To Hell-era AC/DC (yes, Bon Scott!). I've had a few dreams where I was with my heroes. A few featuring Ace Frehley (one of em' was in last July, and it took place in 1988 and I was doing a video documentary on Frehley's Comet. Ace appeared as he did in the music video for the song "Insane". In another one, I was the other guitar player in Frehley's Comet and we were playing "Rocket Ride" in a nice theater), one where I was at an Ace concert and Zakk Wylde was his guitar player (that's wicked), a few Beatle dreams here and there. I know there must have been some Zeppelin, Rush, and Hendrix related ones. I've had dreams where I was just at home playing guitar or testing out nice gear. As a matter of fact, last night (or early this morning depending on how you look at it), I dreamed that I was simply in my bedroom singing the KISS song "All American Man" (and subsequently ******* up the lyrics). Needless to say, I listened to the studio side of Alive II in the car this morning.

 

Those are the good dreams (the Eric Carr one is my favorite). But I also get nightmares in which I'm at a gig and **** ain't going right.

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I played around with lucid dreaming when I was younger,, early 30s maybe. Read a book and practiced the techniques.

 

It took several weeks to get results but it low and behold it took.

The first few times it was kinda freaky. I found that as soon as I realized I was doing it, things got weird and I lost control and either woke up or just faded away. But eventually,, I could do it.

 

I had never had flying dreams in my life. But once I had a little control of lucid dreaming, I practiced and practiced. They were freaky dreams cuz I could only start out jumping really high over long spaces. But eventually I was able to do it. So it was very cool.

I don't think I would have ever had flying dreams otherwise.

 

Nowadays, I don't even think about it or practice it at all. Been there done that. But on occasion, I will realize I am lucid and go with it.

Other times, when the dream is so real, I am afraid to go for it because I don't think I am actually dreaming and fear the consequences.

 

Our subconscious minds are pretty cool.

 

lol... ya I know... pass the lsd.... Whatever,, it works. If anyone has even the slightest interest in it, go for it.

You won't be sorry.

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I played around with lucid dreaming when I was younger,, early 30s maybe. Read a book and practiced the techniques.

 

It took several weeks to get results but it low and behold it took.

The first few times it was kinda freaky. I found that as soon as I realized I was doing it, things got weird and I lost control and either woke up or just faded away. But eventually,, I could do it.

 

I had never had flying dreams in my life. But once I had a little control of lucid dreaming, I practiced and practiced. They were freaky dreams cuz I could only start out jumping really high over long spaces. But eventually I was able to do it. So it was very cool.

I don't think I would have ever had flying dreams otherwise.

 

Nowadays, I don't even think about it or practice it at all. Been there done that. But on occasion, I will realize I am lucid and go with it.

Other times, when the dream is so real, I am afraid to go for it because I don't think I am actually dreaming and fear the consequences.

 

Our subconscious minds are pretty cool.

 

lol... ya I know... pass the lsd.... Whatever,, it works. If anyone has even the slightest interest in it, go for it.

You won't be sorry.

I wonder if you and I read the same book? (Can't recall the title, but it talked a lot about flying dreams). When I read it, I think it was rather new. Roughly 1984 or so. Rarely had flying dreams (except with an airplane, and I'm also a Private Pilot so that is logical), but I had a few where I could levitate other items. A really cool "sensation"!

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I have very vivid dreams all the time... Like full length movies with plots and subplots. Sometime I write them down. I have dreamt of songs and remembered them when I woke up and recorded the basic idea of what I hear in my dreams. When I go to bed it's like, well lets see what will happen in tonight's dreams... Usually all good but I have had a few doozies of nightmares, not very often though... I have had dreams where I am a really good guitar player and and my playing is natural and free flowing. Love those...

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I have very life like dreams as well. More often than not. I also remember one time it was happening more frequently than normal and was kind of starting to freak me out a bit. No night mares or anything like that but, real vivid first person type, with lots of strange scenerios. Well my wife started to have them same style of dreams during this short time frame. After some investigating, I narrowed it down to believe it or not, pepsi one low calorie soda. I asked her if she drank any the day before and she did. So I went a few days then drank a bit of it and had some very wild and extraordinary dreaming again that night. I know this is not exactley music related but pepsi one alters my dreams.

 

On the other hand, most of the time when I dream I am playing guitar or whatever, it was always for the most part with my regular band mates. Strange though but every time it has happened it seemed very real. Tim

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Years ago I used to have the most vivid dreams about Jimi Hendrix with one that was recurring regularly and that was one where we would both be stood side by side playing a keyboard that appeared to have about 10 octaves considering the length of it.I would have all kinds of lucid dreams about him that seemed to be so real that I could remember every minute detail of them for days after.I have looked into the subject of lucid dreams and find the subject fascinating.A couple of times-I don't know if it's just coincidence or what but it's certainly uncanny- the next day after having one of these dreams I was able to nail a certain part of a song that I had been trying to figure out to play for a considerable time,maybe it was just an unconscious "Eureka" moment that would've come anyway where I had been at the particular riff etc. for ages.Either way it seemed pretty eerie at the time.

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Sometimes I've had dreams of actual original music that has been really good. Too bad I never remember any of it. #-o

 

Most often though, I have a dream where I'm with my band or some buddies and we are about to play a gig or jam, but we can never get started. We either forgot a piece of equipment, or can't get set-up for some reason or some other thing keeps preventing us from ever getting started. It's very frustrating.

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Sometimes I've had dreams of actual original music that has been really good. Too bad I never remember any of it.

 

Same here. I needed to be near a guitar when I woke up to be able to play it right then. Hasn't happened so far.

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I have a ton of dreams that deal with end of the world scenarios in life and death situations. I am typically defending myself and sometimes a couple of loved ones from various forms of evil. Just last night I dreamt that there was some sort of apocalypse event that forced me to take shelter in an old storefront where I was forced to take control of the situation around me and defend against looters and people trying to do harm. Very strange stuff. At one point I found a few boxes of ammunition and an old 6 shooter which I quickly took control of to make sure I could protect the ones around me who were visibly unable function. I believe how I found the revolver was a young girl committed suicide because she couldn't face the new reality of her life... Very heavy stuff. I would say about half of my dreams overall are of this unsure inevitability I struggle with in my conscious life. Enough of this doom and gloom, back to the topic!

 

I understand the element of playing between the strings in my dreams. That's typically how I "see" things when I'm dreaming, it's very gray and hard to "put my finger on". It's interesting how the melodies and patterns transfer over into my immediate playing in real life rather than the facility and placement of the notes on the fretboard. I have written a few songs from various sequences of my dreams. Some turn into the chordal structures while others the lyrics from a specific moments that were SO vivid I had to put it into words to share.

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@ zig and saturn

 

I too have dreampt cool songs and when I wake up I know I dreampt a cool song but can't remember it.

 

 

As far as famous music people goes...I kissed Ani DiFranco once after a show. [biggrin]

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I just dreamed that I met Son House! I was reading something about him yesterday. Me and my buddy drove into the driveway of his red house and I accidentally nudged his car as I pulled in. He didn't care and he came bolting out the door with a big smile on his face!!

 

Things are lookin' up!! [thumbup]

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I have vivid dreams fairly often. Sometimes, my dreams will give me an answer to some problem I'm trying to figure out in real life. I usually have my best ideas right when I wake up. One thing that I wish I could do would be to record the music that plays in my head just before I fall asleep. I always have these really sweet songs playing in my head. I can't remember them when I wake up. [thumbdn]

 

Check out a movie called Waking Life if you haven't seen it. It's pretty cool, and a lot of it is focused on lucid dreaming.

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