Given we get a lot of inspiration from various ideas, I was wondering how many of you get inspiration from dreams for their music?
Some of us don't dream often. Others dream frequently. The rest (like myself) probably have a mix where some days we have memorable dreams, and other days not so memorable or not at all.
Some of the dreams I've had that have given me some song ideas:
1. Apocalyptic Space Hadouken
- Pretty much what inspired this topic.
Started off as a normal dream, but rapidly developed towards the end. My coworkers and I were on a ship moored to the pier, and we were giving our final salutes to a coworker that was retiring and departing the ship.
Once they left, I went to where some of our pilots were chilling at the front of the ship, and as we were discussing the ceremony, suddenly a giant ray/beam comes down from the sky just beyond the horizon, just in front of the ocean sunset. There was a high frequency noise, and I could see the clouds slowly morphing out of the way from the immense heat that must have been produced.
Naturally, we try and run back inside and get down underground (I guess we were no longer on a ship) as fast as possible. News reports on TV were covering the event, talking about how these were isolated events, but those areas within range would heat up to insanely high temperatures.
Dream ended with the temperature soaring upwards as I contemplate rappelling deep into a cave to escape the heat.
- Possible song idea:
1. Gotta be epic.
2. Will have to create some kind of deep pulsing, high frequency bass that can revolve around a melody and/or theme.
3. Song would build up to a huge climax and end abruptly.
One other dream idea I've had resulted from having a section in my dream involving a huge power array with lots of wires. The array itself was outputting so much power, the electrical current was audible with a lot of deep bass pulses, alternating in frequency. This of course was very similar to some dubstep wubs, so there's another idea I've got floating around.
So, with that said, who here has gotten some good song ideas from dreams they've had? You don't necessarily have to share the dream if you don't want to, but considering my dreams occasionally give me some off the wall ideas, there's gotta be at least a few of you.