Comments on: Songwriting Dreams

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:38:42 +0000

I was just thinking about this thread again because last night I had another one of these vivid songwriting dreams. It’s crazy because if I can create such great things in my dream… hmm.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:35:54 +0000

yes this happens to me a lot. when i was playing guitar i’d see a band in concert and they’d be playing amazing songs, which i’d realise upon waking were my own.
it happens less with electronic music but the more i write, the more it happens- i’ll be at a party and a DJ will be playing some great track. i am trying to figure out a way to take advantage of this phenomenon.

so far dragging myself out of bed and getting to the computer works ok, but i think a small recorder next to the bed is even better

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:46:54 +0000

I don’t remember having dreamed making music, but I have dreamed films – I still have the outline of a whole Pixar-style film about dinosaurs that my dreaming self went to watch at a cinema one time. I *day-dream* music, other peoples’ mostly, all the time tho’…

By: Document 02

Document 02 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:20:55 +0000

Usually dreaming about tweaking synth, filters screaming a la apocalypse now. o_O haven’t had music dreams for quite some times though.

By: Suicide Server

Suicide Server — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:10:19 +0000

I dreamed yesterday night that someone gave me a brand new TB-303 and i really had a hard on and started immediately to tweak the shit out of it. Aahhhh sweet dreams ;)

Cheers

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:05:07 +0000

I too would like the direct dream to Soundcloud invention to come out soon. I’ve made at least one full song that i really liked while dreaming, and when I woke up I didn’t remember anything about the song other than that it was a song i’ve never heard before and it sounded great.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:43:16 +0000

When I was in high school, I had a dream that I say down and listened to a new New Order album. It was brilliant from start to finish. And it was all gone by the time I was awake enough to try and recreate what was in my dream with my synth.

By: Filch

Filch — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:25:15 +0000

I have no formal musical training or theory, yet I am always amazed at my subconscious brain’s ability to generate deeply complex, harmonically rich music in realtime (dreamtime). I then find frustration in the fact that my rigid conscious brain has difficulty in tapping into that reservoir of effortless creativity that I know is there! I too have fantasized about being able to record those dreams, something like in the movie Strange Days comes to my mind.

By: travis

travis — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:21 +0000

i have dreamed several times that i can sing awesome vocal harmonies in a huge, reverberant space. something like a huge cathedral where the tones echo nearly endlessly and the notes overlap each other.. it always makes me want to record a vocal-only ambient album (which i might do if i could actually sing!)

By: Calvin

Calvin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:42:50 +0000

‘dream catcher straight to soundcloud’, now that would be a wonderful idea. i dream songs a lot, and i’ve been doing it a long time. unfortunately, i did not have my edirol recorder close by last night, and i’m pretty sure i lost something worth keeping.