Ever since I was a kid I've always been able to hear music in my head right before I fall asleep. Sometimes the music just comes to me and sometimes I have to guide it, and sometimes it's a mixture of the two. It has never been limited to any genre, but I can hear fully composed and mastered songs. The worst part is though that I can never really remember how it sounded if I fall asleep. It's really crazy but I know I'm not the only who has it; I took a psych class and they're apparently called hypnogogic hallucinations that occur in the NREM1 stage of your sleep cycle (if I remember correctly) but only some people get them auditorily.
--Side note- NREM1 is the closest bridge we've found between the human conscious and subconscious--pretty cool--
The reason I wanted to start producing music was so I'd be able to extract these auditory hallucinations and bring them to life. I'm just starting out on Ableton, but I have yet to be able to actually fully compose something I've heard in my head. Getting the music to exactly (or even sometimes remotely) similar to how it sounds in my head has been hard.
Do any of you guys have this? Have any of you tried to reproduce these sounds and have you been successful? I'm curious to hear how it's inspired music production if at all
Submitted April 03, 2018 at 03:32AM by ChamedUp https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/89aq7p/predream_musical_hallucinations/?utm_source=ifttt