I often hear hypnogogic music before sleep. Sometimes it is very beautiful and I never heard anything like this until I heard Karavaichuk recently.
Around 10 years ago I had long sleepless night and heard some hypnogogic music. And suddenly I had an idea—I can send this music to my fingers—and they started playing on my blanket. I was sure at that moment that they are playing my music and if there was a piano, I can play it! Never experienced this again, may be because I started to sleep well.
So the point of my story is the idea that Sudden savant just reroutes his internal generative AI to external world.
I don’t find it convincing that what you experienced has any relation to sudden savant syndrome. It sounds like you had a waking dream where you believed you can play the piano.
You did not actually play the piano and produce music though, right?
I have had dreams where I have believed I could do all kinds of things (play the guitar, lift heavy weights, fly etc.), but they didn’t overflow in any way to real life. (I’ve even had dreams where I’ve thought to myself ‘I know that I am dreaming, but this is definitely going to work when I wake up’)
If I ask you to imagine a beautiful painting of a mountain, you could probably conjure up a fairly vivid mental image of one. But if I then gave your brushes and paints and asked you to recreate the picture on canvas, you would probably struggle, unless you were already an experienced painter. In dreams, the distinction between imagining and doing doesn’t exist so strongly. If you can dream/imagine a beautiful painting, you can also dream/imagine putting a paintbrush in your hands, waving it over a canvas and producing the painting. In a dream, these experiences are equally convincing to the dreamer. But sadly, in my experience, real life doesn’t work like that :(
I often hear hypnogogic music before sleep. Sometimes it is very beautiful and I never heard anything like this until I heard Karavaichuk recently.
Around 10 years ago I had long sleepless night and heard some hypnogogic music. And suddenly I had an idea—I can send this music to my fingers—and they started playing on my blanket. I was sure at that moment that they are playing my music and if there was a piano, I can play it! Never experienced this again, may be because I started to sleep well.
So the point of my story is the idea that Sudden savant just reroutes his internal generative AI to external world.
I don’t find it convincing that what you experienced has any relation to sudden savant syndrome. It sounds like you had a waking dream where you believed you can play the piano.
You did not actually play the piano and produce music though, right?
I have had dreams where I have believed I could do all kinds of things (play the guitar, lift heavy weights, fly etc.), but they didn’t overflow in any way to real life. (I’ve even had dreams where I’ve thought to myself ‘I know that I am dreaming, but this is definitely going to work when I wake up’)
If I ask you to imagine a beautiful painting of a mountain, you could probably conjure up a fairly vivid mental image of one. But if I then gave your brushes and paints and asked you to recreate the picture on canvas, you would probably struggle, unless you were already an experienced painter. In dreams, the distinction between imagining and doing doesn’t exist so strongly. If you can dream/imagine a beautiful painting, you can also dream/imagine putting a paintbrush in your hands, waving it over a canvas and producing the painting. In a dream, these experiences are equally convincing to the dreamer. But sadly, in my experience, real life doesn’t work like that :(