The Music of Dreams

I hear the chatter of magpies.

I said I was toying with the idea of posting more. Then, immediately after finishing that last post, something else occurred to me that I feel is worth noting down.

One thing I've been trying to improve is my sleep. I was going through a period where I was finding it very difficult to sleep (overthinking - endlessly rehearsed conversations in the mind with the trouble-making swan goddess). Anyway, I'm having very good sleep now ..thank God. And I really appreciate it. Less overthinking has helped, but also more practical things, like trying not to drink tea/coffee or eat in the hours before bed. Consciously slowing breathing has helped too.

Anyway, one consequence of sleeping more is more dreams. I've had quite a few recently. Last night I had one where some music was playing, and in the dream we (there were other people there) were trying to find out what band it was. Like when you hear a song on the radio that grabs your attention, so you search the lyrics on your phone in the hope of finding out what it is.

It was a strange dream, and I'm sure dreams are just kaleidoscope-like collages of the things that are already in your mind. However, it always amazes me that the mind can construct music in a dream. The music in this particular one was original. It wasn't something I'd heard in real life, though no doubt it was of a genre. I can't fully recall it now, sadly. There's more just that vague post-dream recollection of the sense of things. It was sort of goth rock/post-punk in vibe. That general ballpark. Still, the way the mind can do that is amazing really.

I wonder if AI works in a similar way to dreams. The way it takes all this real world information, then spits out a nearly-sensical construct of it. Or should I say, do dreams work in a similar way to AI?