Ever since my Psychology 101 course as a Freshman I’ve been fascinated by brain studies and neuroscience. And over my career I’ve been able to partially solve some very tough engineering problems in my dreams; I’ve also been able to (on very rare occasions) direct and control where my dreams go as opposed to simply being a passive, helpless observer.

But I’ve never been able to use my dreams in the pursuit of music creativity.

A new book has been written on this subject by a brain surgeon. I haven’t read it but there is an interesting audio clip sample that frames this subject.

This Is Why You Dream

There is also a mind-expanding interview on this subject with the author. Note that they've included a green highlight of the text that follows the audio.

Audio Interview

Whether or not we remember them, we all dream, probably every night.

My question is, who, if any, have exploited their dreams to learn to play a musical instrument, learn music software or be more musically creative in general?

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