Song ideas can come to you while you are dreaming!
This has happened to me and I’ve read about other artists experiencing it too.
I’ve had dreams before where I witnessed a musician that I greatly admire playing a new song that blew me away. When I wake up from these dreams I immediately attempt to record the idea. It can be a little difficult at first to capture these ideas, but with practice it gets easier.
There is magic in dreams. Have you ever been so swept up in a dream that when you wake your real life seems pale in comparison to the miraculous events that unfolded in your dream?
Creating music in your dreams is quite an unusual way to generate ideas. It’s not a method that you should rely on for your ideas, but you should be aware that this is possible. And you should be prepared for any ideas that may occur in dreams by having some sort of recording device next to your bed.
Some of the greatest songwriters of all time have reported hearing music in dreams, and then converting it into a full piece of music.
In a television interview, Paul McCartney (from The Beatles) admitted that while dreaming, he saw a performance of a song that he was quite jealous of. In his dream, it was The Rolling Stones that were doing the performing. At the time, The Rolling Stones were rivals of the The Beatles, which compounded the jealousy!
However moments later, Paul awoke from this dream. He realized that this song had never even been written or recorded, and it was he who created it.
He wrote the song from his memory of the dream, and it became one of the band’s most successful tracks: Yesterday.
And this is not the only recorded case of songs coming to artists in dreams. Here’s an interesting quote taken from a Michael Jackson in a Rolling Stones interview…
“I wake up from dreams and go, ‘Wow, put this down on paper.’ You hear the words; everything is there in front of your face… That’s why I hate to take credit for songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.”
As Michael says, it feels tough to take credit for something that you don’t feel you created. The thing is though, Michael did create these songs. It’s just that he didn’t create them consciously.
That’s what’s so fun about the creative process! It doesn’t take much conscious effort. You simply instruct your unconscious mind to begin creating ideas, and then document them as they arrive!
The ideas seem like they have popped up from nowhere (and as you can see, even pop up in dreams); however this isn’t the case. The ideas have been created because that’s what you have asked of your richer resources. These ideas have been created by these resources outside of your awareness. So… back to the topic of conversation…
If you wake up remembering a song idea from a dream, be sure to record this idea. The dream state that it came from is very unconscious, which means the ideas have been completely unconsciously driven. This can be a very effective way for creating ideas unlike any of your current material.
Why Do Ideas Arrive In Dreams?
I believe that ideas are delivered to you in dreams because of your
intention. If you are intending to create amazing music, your unconscious mind will begin creating this music for you, and the ideas created can bob up at any time-including in dreams.
Also…
The training that you do in this course to sharpen your internal senses will make you far more aware of your dreams.
People that don’t notice their internal processes are usually the ones who don’t remember dreams at all.
When you become consciously aware of what’s happening inside your head; when you begin to notice the pictures that flash by; when you hear the sounds that play in your head; when you notice the inner sensations of taste, smell and touch…
When you become aware of all these things you will find yourself remembering many of your dreams, in vivid detail.
For example, for a long time I was one of those people who never remembered my dreams. I would wake up in the morning and draw a complete blank. I was delighted though when after some Image Streaming practice, I started remembering my dreams again.
At this same time I was doing a lot of work to sharpen all of my internal senses. As I began to become much more aware of everything inside my head, my dreams got more and more detailed. At this point I began to have incredible dreams that sometimes contained musical ideas that I could pursue.
This is a very rewarding experience!
It’s not crucial to make your dreams a part of your music creation process. However it’s not hard to adopt this method, it takes up little time, but it can produce incredible results as well as be a lot of fun!
If you do want to explore this concept my advice is this: 1. Continue to reaffirm your musical intentions.
2. Do the exercises in this course that sharpen your internal senses. 3. Always have a notepad or recording device next to your bed.
Every morning record what you saw, what you heard, and so forth. By recording your dreams in this way you will reinforce the
behavior of remembering your dreams. Sooner or later you will begin to hear the sounds in your dreams, and these sounds could represent your next hit!