Musical Instrument
This shows how well you can express your flowing feelings and spontaneous creativity. In some dreams it is linked with what you feel about sex or your genitals, and how well you express pleasure and feelings sexually. If it is a large and complex instrument it might be depicting the mind.
Musical instruments, or music in your dream, are a way you begin to become aware of subtle or creative impulses that are emerging. Just as a plant takes shape and colour from a tiny seed, so also your personal growth emerges from obscure and formless possibilities within you. Music is the expression of that flow to life.
A musical instrument being played: This depends upon what feelings the music produces. Whatever the feeling, whether sadness, uplift, haunting, wistful, stimulating, take it as expressing that in yourself, and see if you can connect the feeling with everyday issues in some way.
Playing an instrument with great pleasure and skill: At the time of the dream feeling in harmony with oneself and allowing ones pleasurable feelings to flow into expression in some form. It is an illustration of your ability to feel pleasure in what you do in life and express yourself with enthusiasm.
Playing an instrument with difficulty: You are able to express yourself, but lack of confidence or other forms of hesitation or uncertainty are stopping your easy creativity or positive feelings.
A large complex instrument: The mind and its influence in the rest of our being. See: drum; organ.
Example: In a few lucid dreams I play the piano, and play it like a concert pianist. My “real” keyboard skills are all by ear, self-taught, and at best rudimentary. But in the lucid dream state I’ve had fun with this ability and spontaneously composed some wonderful classical pieces as in a concerto. At times I awoke with the musical composition still fresh in my mind. The pieces were complex, beautiful, moving, and as far as I can tell, thoroughly original and spontaneous. These dreams have shown me that we probably all have a tremendous capability for innate, spontaneous creativity and composition.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Can I play an instrument or is it only dreamt?
Do I listen and if so what do I feel?
Am I creative in my dream?
See Genius – Emotions and Mood in Dreams – Inner World – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams
Comments
I had a dream where I could play piano. I can play piano. I play very well but in this dream I lost my ability to play. The song I was trying to play was Moonlight sonata by Beethoven. Then a cat a stray cat came in my house and my sister told me I was dying of a disease then I woke up. I’ve had dreams where I couldn’t play piano or any instrument that I can play for two days. Cats always appear in my dreams sometimes dead and sometimes alive. But it’s rare that there alive. What does this mean?
Hi – It is important that you read https://dreamhawk.com/forums/index.php?topic=529.msg1472#msg1472
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Victoria – The disease you are dying of is not a physical one but an ‘inner life’ one. Of course this dream all takes place in your inner life, something many people do not realise the power this has over them. We all have an inner world that is quite distinct from the outer world we encounter with our physical senses. It is the world we meet when we have an emotional reaction, an idea, or close our eyes and live in our fantasies, imagination or dreams. Your inner world is also all your convictions, fears, beliefs and abilities and failings. Mostly people do not recognise they have an inner world because they are so focussed on the outer world, what they call the ‘real world’ – yet it is their inner world that forces them to see the outer world in a particular way. People take the views of the outer world – created by their inner world – as the truth. See https://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/animal-children/#Program
The piano you can’t play is not an outer world instrument but the wonderful Life form, a living being, a miracle of life. You have lost contact with the living process you are, which is not your personality, but the living animal you are, shown in the dream as the cat, your dynamic female self.
Perhaps it will help to read https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/instinct/ – https://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/ – https://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Hi. Im wondering if this website still active, but ill leave my question here, hopefully you can help me 🙂 I dream that my family left house for a while, i feel excited to try something and then i found myself trying a big dark chocolatr guitar, but the sound guitar produces is a bard sound, a very calm and relaxing sound. The string of the guitars also are almost like water, it was soft and you can pull it on quite long length. If you can help me ill be very grateful, thanks!
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Kaya – It would have been helpful to have some background information about your dream. For instance, are you musical; do you play or plan to play the guitar?
As you must have read, musical instruments, or music in your dream, are a way you begin to become aware of subtle or creative impulses that are emerging. Just as a plant takes shape and colour from a tiny seed, so also your personal growth emerges from obscure and formless possibilities within you. Music is the expression of that flow to life.
Our whole being is an example of a wonderful orchestra, with all the different organs and processes working in harmony when we are healthy. In reality you are a musical instrument played by Life. Life plays us with such skill unless we interfere with its controlling hand playing our notes – the rhythm of our breathing and heartbeat which plays us even when we are asleep. But even though we are an amazing musical instrument, many of us have our notes, our keys, so stuck we cannot be played to our full potential. We are so stuck we are afraid to let the full range of our emotions play, or we are so fixed in just playing one or two notes of our wonderful range, we just play our sexual or digestive organs, or are fixed in just ambition or even playing passive pieces. Yet Life lives in the lightening, the sunshine, the earthquakes and the depth and mystery of the sea, and if we are fluid we have them all as part of our extraordinary range. See
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
If nothing else the dream says you have the being of a poet and a musical instrument.
Thank you for this piece (peace). My wife just went through a hysterectomy. During this time your sexual life changes. I’ve had the ability to remain at peace I don’t have no sexual stimulation. Last night I had a dream although it’s not the first dream of playing music, this time I woke up wanting to research it. The cords that I play come from growing up in ministry. These cords are very melodic and the vibrations of minors and majors blended together relax relieve and restore the spirit. I’m trying to give birth to give birth to what’s in me and the labor is painful. It’s hard to come out the way I feel it but this helps. Thank you
Malachi – I too have had a struggle ot give birth.
Please try using http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ and reading http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
Tony
i keep dreaming that my electric guitar is broken in half. why am i dreaming this? my guitar is fine in real life.
I want to know , what does humans being used as instruments mean ?i looked all over and the first part of my dream was easy , Grand Canyon was in France
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do it by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing
Tony
Dear Daisu – You are an instrument played now by forces and processes you do not understand. The player of the instrument is called Life. For it wasn’t your mother who created your infant body, but the process of Life that worked away in the most incredible way. You mother did well by eating enough and then she took over by teaching you language – that amazing computer program which led you to become an aware human being. See http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/animal-children/#Program
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