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In the beginning of this year, I asked AH a question about music that comes from dreams.

He kindly shared several artists who composed music directly from their dream source. I will be sharing some of them, specifically on this thread - very happy to do so, and would also love to receive more input on this from you all
! :brown_heart:

The possibility of creating art directly from the dream realms fascinates me, most especially music.

Having in consideration one basic aspect of Preparing to Die “It is at death that our mind’s habits have the biggest impact on us”, I feel that having this capacity of receiving a melody from dreams, can be an excellent bardo practice. I have received a few musics, in dreams + lucid dreams, and will also be sharing them here later, but the main focus here would be recalling the miracle of how some human beings can download a sound or a lyric from a dream, which then, can be sung and celebrated by so many other people!..

In my world, this also provides a huge empowerment to Dreaming!

Here’s my first choice:

"The song was written in 1984 by Compay Segundo,[3] who first “dreamt” the opening melody in his sleep and later wrote the lyrics. On the composition of the song, Compay Segundo said:

“I didn’t compose Chan Chan, I dreamt it. I dream of music. I sometimes wake up with a melody in my head, I hear the instruments, all very clear. I look over the balcony and I see nobody, but I hear it as if it was played on the street. I don’t know what it can be. One day I woke up hearing those four sensitive notes, I gave them a lyric inspired by a children’s tale from my childhood, Juanica y Chan Chan, and you see, now it’s sung everywhere.”"

source: Chan Chan (song) - Wikipedia

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The inspiration for Paul Simon’s latest album, “Psalms” came to him in a series of dreams. In this album, he wrestles with big existential questions about life, death and God. He is now in his early 80’s. This is an interesting interview in which he talks about how the idea for the album as well as many of the lyrics came to him in a series of dreams.

Here’s a longer interview on this topic:

Here’s the album:

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Dont watch this video, I dont think you will like the violence. But the song towards the end with the unique vocals (4min mark) came to me in a dream over a decade ago. The dream was really pleasant, not gory or violent like the scene, and the song stuck with me for days until I finally remembered where it came from, and had to laugh at the juxtoposition of the dream vs the source, night and day differences:

Kill Bill - The Story Of O-Ren Ishii

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this is highly inspiring. what a wonderful path to death he is crafting

thank you SO MUCH for sharing :pray:t3:

brilliant - as usual :heart_eyes:

Inspired in Paul Simon’s style, today I share a music from a dear Leo friend who received this music from the dream world. It generated his most powerful album!..

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Paul McCartney of The Beatles has said that two of his songs were inspired by dreams: “Let It Be” and “Yesterday”

Yesterday (Remastered 2009)

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" Losing his mother in 1956, at the tender age of 14, the singer had always dealt with death rather difficultly. But during this period, while he was beginning to lose his sense of self, he was visited by his mother Mary in a dream and it gave him the start of one of The Beatles’ most beloved songs 'Let It Be '."

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/paul-mccartney-beatles-song-in-a-dream-let-it-be/#:~:text=Losing%20his%20mother%20in%201956,songs%20’Let%20It%20Be’.

Let It Be (Remastered 2015)

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“I wake up from dreams and go “Wow, put this down on paper.” The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.”

Michael Jackson

“Writing a song is like standing under a tree and trying to catch a leaf. Everything comes as a package. It’s the most wonderful, most spiritual thing 
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Michael Jackson, 1993

“I love to write songs. It®s one of my favourite things to do. It®s very spiritual. It®s a connection. I®m just a source through which it comes. I®m inspired by a lot of things but it®s done in the heavens. I listen to the music and I just create from there.”

Michael Jackson

“Sometimes you feel like something’s coming, a gestation, almost like a pregnancy. You get emotional and you start to feel something gestating and, MAGIC, there it is! An explosion of something that’s so beautiful, you go, WOW! There it is! That’s how it works through you. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s a universe where you can go with those 12 notes.”

MJ in Ebony Interview 2007

Source: Music :: True Michael Jackson

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Posted this here before, this is the perfect place for it:

“Lucid Dream” was written and produced by Adam Young. The track runs at 128 BPM and is in the key of C minor.[3] The song has been described as the “most EDM-sounding track” on the album.[1] In an interview with Songwriter Universe, Young stated that the song was based upon a strange dream he had while writing the album.[4]

“I kept a dream journal next to my bed and would often jot down things I remembered upon waking. After several months, most of the journal consisted of bits and pieces of imagery, but one night I had the most vivid dream where I was able to fly. The moment I woke up, I wrote down everything that happened and the song was more or less written. I’ve not experienced a dream quite like it before so I’m glad I was able to document it and put it into a song.”[4]
Lucid Dream (Owl City song) - Wikipedia

Funny another popular song of his is actually inspired by insomnia.

“Fireflies” is centered on Young’s struggle with insomnia; he first developed the song “awake in the early hours of the morning” to occupy his mind.
Fireflies (Owl City song) - Wikipedia

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"WHEN BEETHOVEN dreamed his piano sonatas, or so one theory goes, he dreamed them on instruments that had not yet been invented. By this thinking, the “Appassionata” and the “Hammer klavier” are conceptions bigger in size and resonance than the relatively small-scale pianos he himself had played on.

Beethoven, the thought continues, had invited the modern piano into being as early as 1800, but rather rudely it did not bother to show up for another half-century. Since then the Steinway and its colleagues – ironclad, cross-strung, long-sustaining and evenly textured – have made amends, eager to convert sounds heard only in Beethoven’s head to hard facts for our ears."

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/28/arts/classical-music-what-piano-did-beethoven-hear-in-his-dreams.html#:~:text=WHEN%20BEETHOVEN%20dreamed%20his%20piano,he%20himself%20had%20played%20on.

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Found this interesting article:

https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/22623216.html

highlight:
“Looking at what composers are saying, increasingly from dreams. Right into the era predating secularisation, artists frequently reported that their ideas were dictated by a divine power or had their origins in religious experiences. Things have changed in that respect since the 19th century, but artists still often claim that their ideas came from an external source – which does include dreams. We know the phenomenon from literature: ValĂ©ry with his dream journals, or surrealism – which quotes dreams as a source of inspiration are the perfect examples.”

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Every Breath you Take - The Police

Sting woke with the line “Every breath you take, I’ll be watching you” in his head. He wrote the song in thirty minutes after jumping on his piano. Sting has also said in interviews that he started out to write a love song, but then he saw his “other side” in the lyrics: jealousy and control.

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Street of Dreams By Rainbow

Co-written by lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and vocalist Joe Lynn Turner. According to Turner it was inspired by one of his dreams, “Literally, I wrote it in a dream. I woke up, wrote things down, sketches, then woke up the next morning, put it all together and it was the song. The whole thing, the reincarnation stuff. We were all dabbling in magic and everything else at the time, but this was absolutely true. That was a magical song.”

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Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix said this song was inspired by a dream he had. He was walking under the sea before a “purple“ haze surrounded him. He got lost within the haze and was upset. In his dream, Hendrix said that his faith in Jesus saved him. @Bucket this “his faith in Jesus saved him” reminded me of your recent lucid dream :brown_heart:

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@BlessingsDeers
I had always heard that the song was about an LSD trip. There was even a type of LSD going around in the late 60’s called “purple haze” but I think the acid was named after the song, rather than the song being a reference to the acid. But according to wikipedia, you’re right there is dream inspiration involved:
"In interviews, Hendrix usually gave different answers about the development of the song’s lyrics. Biographer Harry Shapiro points out that “Purple Haze” is most likely “a pot-pourri of ideas” which Hendrix developed over time. As a fan of science fiction, he frequently incorporated its imagery in his songwriting. Hendrix read “Night of Light”, a 1966 novel by Philip JosĂ© Farmer, that expanded on a short story published in 1957. In the story set on a distant planet, sunspots produce a “purplish haze” which has a disorienting effect on the inhabitants. An early handwritten draft by Hendrix, titled “Purple Haze – Jesus Saves”, uses dream-like imagery where the sense of direction and time is distorted. In an interview on January 28, 1967, before the song was completed, Hendrix was asked how he wrote songs; he responded, “I dream a lot and I put my dreams down as songs. I wrote one called ‘First Look Around the Corner’ and another called ‘The Purple Haze,’ which was about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea.”
Later in the Wikipedia article, however, the LSD inspiration is addressed:
"Many fans and the press interpret the song as referring to a psychedelic experience due to lines such as “purple haze all in my brain” and “'scuse me while I kiss the sky”. However, Hendrix and those closest to him never discussed any connection between [psychedelic drugs] and the song, although Shapiro admits that, at the time, to do so would have been “professional suicide”. Chandler, who claimed he was present when Hendrix wrote it, later denied suggestions that Hendrix did so while under the influence of psychedelics. Commenting on the lyrics, Shadwick concludes “the music [was allowed] to tell the larger story. Poised effectively between the twin intoxicants of drugs and desire, they could be interpreted to the listener’s taste”
-Wikipedia article for “Purple Haze.”

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I was laughing with this
 because I think FAITH is the most amazing hallucinogenic in the Universe! hihihi

Also, once a student (or a friend) asked me what I thought about medicine journeys. I said it was not for me because I love singing and because REAL life is like an Ayuaska trip, but that I was TRULY grateful because people who have taken (and take) this medicine, have bent (and keep bending) realities that were really important for humanity’s evolution.

great to know this. really cool. now I really like Hendrix :heart_eyes: :hibiscus: :brown_heart:

In this August (2024) I had a series of dreams breathing inside water:

  1. in the sea
  2. in a lake
  3. in a swimming pool!
    hihihi

they were all amazing dreams!..

this is AMAZING!

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Of Montreal’s lead singer and songwriter, Kevin Barnes, has stated that the lyrics to “Wraith Pinned To The Mist (And Other Games)” were inspired by a dream he had. He says he was “in a vast field that was covered in dense fog” and there were “multicolored boxes” floating around him. He later turned this dream into the lyrics of the song. The Meaning Behind The Song: Wraith Pinned To The Mist (And Other Games) by Of Montreal - Beat Crave

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Oh cool! I didn’t even know he was Christian. Guess I never listened to the lyrics very closely, it’s right there in the song lol.

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“Songs from so deep,
While I’m sleepin’
Seep in,
Sweepin’ over me.”

I don’t know if this song came from a dream or not, but the lyrics seem to indicate dream inspiration in her songs. Judee Sill is a largely forgotten musical genius from the 70’s (although there has been a recent documentary made about her) and more people seem to be discovering her. This song is brilliant!

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indeed
 amazing creation!..

I think this music is a dream! :heart_eyes: deeply beautiful

thank you so much for sharing.

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On May 6th, 1965, The Rolling Stones were in Florida on their first U.S. tour. The crowd was chaotic and The Stones only played four songs before the show had to be shut down. That night, Keith Richards woke from his sleep at his hotel with the riff and lyric for “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” (source: Songfacts) Keith Richards said, “I wrote ‘Satisfaction’ in my sleep. I had no idea I’d written it. Thank God for the little Philips cassette player.” The recording has some guitar strumming before a pic hits the floor and snoring follows.

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