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offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 11:45 [#02283179]
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It's interesting that you mention this now because the other
day I was laying down in bed, my brain must of been in an
alpha state, I could hear music in my mind. I could hear
really nice melodies but no beats and it was well structured
musically which surprised me. It went on for about 5 minutes
then stopped. but i was sort of not in control of it, but i
obviously was somehow. I want to get into this state
again...

So i know exactly what you mean Dag, I put it down to years
of dedicated listening and appreciation for music in
general. your brain can make those calculations and produce
any kind of timbre or musical structure based on the
information it has been fed through the years.



 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 15:36 [#02283209]
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Similar things happen to me.

I wake up with a song in my head. And I sometimes feel I
hard a song in my sleep that I have definately never heard
before.

Also I get a lot of inspiration for poetry when I am trying
to get to sleep. My brain is in a kinda half relaxed, half
stimulated state. But that's when I ciompletely conscious.
Not sleeping, as you were saying.

Do either of you think you might have sinesthesia, or am I
just being silly thinking this?


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 15:39 [#02283210]
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I think it makes sense for this kinda thing to happen. Like
when one drinks or takes drugs, the brain is stimulated, but
inhibitions are removed. The brain never stops thinking and
obviously there are going to be no inhibitions, per se, when
unconscious, so I guess it makes sense to even be creative
(or even more so) when asleep. The only thing is trying to
remember the fuckers... :(


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 15:56 [#02283216]
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No, I would love to have sinesthesia! I probably don't
really understand what it really means to have it, though I
don't think scientists do, fully. Everyone has different
types. My view toward it is a bit romanticised, probably.

Don't be silly- course you're not scizophrenic! :)


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2009-03-30 16:00 [#02283217]
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I love this kind of thing, and i often can recreate them
from what i have experienced in a dream. I kind of trained
myself to be able to sit up and out of bed right when i wake
up (i do that by trying to oversleep my alarm clock when in
snooze-mode, and then get out immediately before i turn up
too late for something). This also causes me to get very
tired in general, over the passed few years, which causes
melodies to pretty much pop up everywhere i go. Usually a
tune that pops up makes me feel all tingly and excited like
when you're looking for this software to partition your
harddrives of your newly bought super laptop, and you've
search all over the internet and finally you get your hands
on a free, fully working, super piece of partitioning
software...

What helps for me: Buy a tiny keyboard, like a casio
sk-1/sk-5, for doodling out these tunes, and simple just
write down the keys, don't really need to write down the
notes in perfect theoreticly correct musical language.


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2009-03-30 16:01 [#02283218]
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*sit up and out my bed, to write down whatever i heard in my
dream


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2009-03-30 16:03 [#02283219]
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Its when your brain slips into Alpha/Theta state- basically
more of your subconcious mind comes through, this happens to
me on occasion i heard the sweetest beat the other night as
i was dropping off, i mean the percussion sounds rather than
the pattern - the kick was sort of hollowed out. Theanine
(found in tea) is said to help induce the Alpha/Theta
state...

I find it very interesting actually, I think all 'true' art
is created from the subconcious (encoded) and that this is
also where it is decoded. That's why you can't explain why
you love a song - you just feel it.


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 16:05 [#02283220]
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I agree.

I like you way you explained that. :)


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-30 16:10 [#02283221]
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When I think about it, Analords have a fantastical, lush and
intimate feel that I would associate with sleep.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2009-03-30 16:51 [#02283226]
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pretentious aresoles, but feel free to prove me wrong


 

offline Exaph from United Kingdom on 2009-03-30 16:55 [#02283228]
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whats your favourite song and why?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-03-31 13:09 [#02283315]
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i always dream about tits, how do they sound?


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-03-31 14:13 [#02283320]
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none of you dream cos none of you are real


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-03-31 14:38 [#02283330]
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thin tits


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-31 14:44 [#02283335]
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Why is no one taking this thread seriously?

This is an intereresting thread, dammit!


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-03-31 14:45 [#02283339]
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*hangs head in shame*


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-03-31 14:49 [#02283341]
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thin tits innit


 

offline oyvinto on 2009-03-31 15:04 [#02283342]
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i wake up with a hardon


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-31 17:14 [#02283401]
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the strangest memory I have of hearing music was in the year
2000. it was cornwall, falmouth in the winter and I was
sharing a house with my x girlfriend 2 friends a psychotic
artist middle aged woman, and an eccentric schizoid who
liked talking in some kind of old English dialect which no
one could understand.

we took some acid and hit the streets, (that is my x and 2
friends) after much pissing around and feeling unusual
followed by vigorous laughing and confusion we found
ourselves trying to communicate with a sales clerk in a
garage who only had 1 arm.

We got home and i remember needing to be alone, so i went
into a room and lay down, i stared at the ceiling and the
strangest thing happened, i heard the most clear glithy
hardcore electronic music i have ever heard, and it kind of
reverberated all around the room then vanished after a few
seconds and i was so freaked out by it and intrigued at the
same time. I then imagine a large elephant foot stamping
onto the ground and as i closed my eyes to escape it, i
could see green fields growing into the far distance and
these pillars growing out of the ground and things shifting
and changing.

the end



 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-31 18:46 [#02283417]
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Wow, that's crazy, man. It's a shame that you didn't record
the song by composing it, but I guess it would have stopped
you enjoying the trip as much, having to concentrate on
something.

Cool story.


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2009-03-31 18:48 [#02283418]
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sometimes i am working on a remix, and i get really
frustrated and nothing is working. so i take a nap, and
while i am dreaming, something says to me just put a
bangin' donk on it
, and then i wake up, do it, and it
works like a charm!


 


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