sleep writing

[Dahneboy]

whatever you guys call it, is there any one on here who comes up with a nice melody in their dreams/sleeping and try to proceed to write it out and produce it ? also is there any articles on improving this skill

[OzoneJunkie]

yep. it's nice when it's retained afterward. that's been happening more and more for me lately.

i think the best way to improve this skill is to become more intimate (huh?) with lucid dreaming. when you're lucid, you have a more pronounced awareness and level of consciousness. It can lead to dreams that you are so 'there' mentally that it feels as though you are awake.

For me, I've read books on lucid dreaming. They contain exercises, which work, but I've found the most success with medication ... whoops (really, that was just a joke... clear headed is always best in my opinion)... meditation prior to sleep. Meditating for 20 to 40 minutes (sitting up) before laying down (on one's back) and letting yourself doze off... the meditation prior slows your brain waves down... and lets you slip into REM sleep more quickly.

Also, I tend to pull more out of dreams in the morning, between snoozes on the alarm... if I fall back into REM and then the alarm wakes me up, I snap out quickly and the melodies and lyrics are there... even if I don't write them down they often stay.. but writing them down right away is better

[rockonin]

I'm sure a lot of people have made melodies in their sleep, but most of the time you wont remember it when you wake up. I never remember them, don't have many of them anyway.

[jaydot]

I don't do this but I have production dreams where it's like I'm at my DAW and then I'll wake up and mess about with Ableton for an hour or so before going back to sleep.

[fragments]

You guys need to get out more.

[ThisIsSovereign]

I've never had dreams about producing but I've had times where I've been trying to fall asleep and have completely forgotten the concept of sleep. It's like I forget what sleep itself is and instead I'm laying there rolling back and forth thinking I'm supposed to be putting on a performance or something, I've got my tunes running through my head and I'm like this show isn't good enough all I'm doing is laying in my bed.

It's kind of hard to explain but tldr: sometimes when trying to fall asleep I forget what sleep is and instead think when I close my eyes and lay there I'm supposed to be putting on a show.

I don't fucking know.

Edit: No substances involved when this happens, completely sober.

[BrightLights]

The best way I think to improve this would be to learn all your intervals, that way when you try and reproduce your thought up melodies you already know exactly how spaced out the notes you want are, so it would make that a lot easier then hitting random notes until you come up with something like what your thinking. And it'd probably be easier to write out too if you don't feel like getting out of your bed and starting your computer up and stuff. If you can learn how to write out the exact notes your thinking of that you think would sound good together, that would be best way, but would probably take a while to get down. That's basically what composers do.

[Echoi]

I used to get this a lot when I fisrt started making beats on the ps2!

Would fall asleep and have the most surreal in depth dream about the project I was on, then wake up expecting all of what I dreamt to be saved, only to find out it was a dream, always felt like I had never been asleep aswell, weird shit.

Don't seem to get that anymore.

[BrightLights]

I honestly dont see why anyone would WANT to do this. It doesn't help your production at all, you have plently of time during the day to think of melodies, and you would be a lot better off thinking of these ideas when actually sitting infront of your daw, and not just imagining it in your head and completely forgetting it later. I actually hated being up all night thinking of songs because it would keep my mind from relaxing and getting sleep, but my sleep patterns are getting a lot better now and I save my ideas and creativity for when I'm actually making music.

[HaddaUK]

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[didi]

You guys need to get out more.

cosign

[didi]

i'm having deja vu. i swear you've posted that before fragments?

a different thread?

[Mark-Creda]

Sometimes I do and , sometimes.........just sometimes I can retain that info and put it down.
I find that a lot , like I'll think of a cool idea on the buss or something and 9 times out of 10 I'll forget it when I get home