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Dreaming as practice?

Yes. Many times over many years. I've figured out more than a few more challenging bass lines in dreams I remember the next morning or during wakeful periods in the night. During the years when I was playing a lot of shows, bass lines running through my head were present to the point of annoyance when trying to get to sleep or when my sleep was interrupted.

Koog
 
I have a gig coming up tomorrow where I had three days to learn a set to play on DB. A couple are tricky funk tunes, the others are simpler and I just need to keep the arrangements in my head.

Anyway, last night while going in and out of sleep I found myself dreaming about them, seeing the fingerboard while hearing the bass part. Definitely a first for me.

Anybody else do this sort of practicing, whether sleeping or while awake?
No, 90% of the time I’ve worked on it so hard I could actually play the gig in my sleep.