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What he’s talking about is when you’re deep into music, that small time between deep sleep and when you’re waking up you have almost a lucid dream where amazing
by auspex 5y ago
What he’s talking about is when you’re deep into music, that small time between deep sleep and when you’re waking up you have almost a lucid dream where amazing music comes to you. The problem is right when you wake up. It vanishes. The “hit” song is on the “tip of your brain” … then gone.
It happens to me and musicians I know. On occasion you remember one.
- loydb 5y agoStevie Ray talked about learning amazing solos from Hendrix in his dreams, but he could never remember them when he woke up.
- dhosek 5y agoI tend to have two kinds of musical dreams: there are those when my fingers are magic and everything comes out amazing and those when everything comes out awful. I think I've managed to retain a dream melody once or twice. Recently I dreamt a poem that was absolutely amazing but when I woke up it had melted away even before I awoke. I have some dribs and drabs of it that I'm trying to reassemble into something coherent.
- bthallplz 5y agoI have this happen every once in a while, and I love it. That state between sleeping and full wakefulness is one of my favorite things to experience because of things like this, hearing music, and also being much more creative. I've learned to stay in the state for a decent while - seemingly lengthening it from seconds to a number of minutes - by keeping my mind relaxed/loose. (The state of transitioning from wakefulness to sleep is also nice, but it seems less readily "useful" in this way.) As someone that wouldn't regularly consider themselves a musician, hearing music out of nowhere is super cool but weird.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoFor some reason I could count on getting into that state fairly regularly when I went home to visit my parents and slept on a slightly uncomfortable spare bed in their house. The exact reason is a bit of a mystery to me. I suspect a mixture of factors come together to make it more likely.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThis is why Keith Richards kept a tape recorder by his bed. "Satisfaction" started this way.