Dreaming a Handpan into Existence - Lucid Dreaming

Over the years we’ve stumbled across a number of imaginative ways that some have utilised to make their own Hang-like instruments on a budget.  Such as this guy’s homemade plastic-bottle Handpan-esque creation.  

But if you’re short on cash, and even the idea of messing around with sellotape and empty soda bottles seems like too much hard work, you’re still not without options - according to The Lucid Guide over at YouTube, who purportedly simply dreams his Handpan into existence, and composes Handpan music while he sleeps…

Lucid Dreaming

A lucid dream is a dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment.

Composing Handpan Music While You Sleep

Faced with the dilemma of only having partial access to their friends Handpan,yet still wishing to compose on the instrument even with the pan out of reach, The Lucid Guide simply manifests his friends pan into existence when in a dream state, using the power of lucid dreaming.  Stating about the following recording: ‘Having only limited access to the Hang Drum used within this recording, roughly 80% of my practice with this instrument has occurred during lucid dreams’.

A related article found over at www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com, by Daniel Love, describes the Handpan as being the perfect tool for experimenting with the ability to practice and explore creativity within the dreamscape.  And documents his experiences at integrating the arts of lucid-dreaming, and Handpan composition.  With one particularly interesting anecdote being that after recording, and sharing his efforts online, the NaturePan maker, the same brand of Handpan that Daniel had been borrowing from a friend, and also dreaming into existence, stumbled across his work. And decided to donate Daniel one of their instruments for real, in order to help further his experiments.

Solid evidence, that lucid, or even more tangible, you literally can dream a Handpan into your hands - If you really set your mind to it.

Read more: The Dreamlike Music of the Handpan - by Daniel Love