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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
New nightmare "treatment" Hearing a piano chord while imagining a more positive ending to a scary dream was part of an experimental method that led to fewer nightmares! OK, what's the rather glaring piece of missing information in this article? | ||
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Beatification Candidate |
I'm guessing you would like to hear the chord they use.  I was unaware of this type of therapy or of the number of people who suffer recurring nightmares. I very seldom have them, but if I do, returning to sleep is not always an easy choice. I do have dreams of a certain recurring pattern that are only interrupted by awakening as far as I can perceive. They generally involve trying to go someplace or return home and encountering obstacle after obstacle - missing passport, ticket, or money; wrong turns or misdirections; failed connections; unknown places; disagreements with a traveling companion if one exists in the particular dream; etc. I don't classify these dreams as nightmares because they don't end in a disaster but simply go on and on until I awake. Perhaps they have become more frequent since my mobility has been restricted. I think it could be somehow related since sometimes I'm disappointed in awakening without dreaming how the situation resolves itself. Big Al
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Yep. I would be happy simply to know the chord. I'm sure I'm still capable of replicating it myself! | |||
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
I’m confused, the chord was in the article. It’s written as C69, which looks funny because the numbers aren’t superscripted, but it’s a C major with the 6th and 9th added: C-E-G-A-D.
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Minor Deity |
I imagine that it's the secret chord that David played to please the Lord.
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Minor Deity |
That’s also a pentatonic scale.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
I missed that! | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Yeah, negative connotations ... Tritone anyone ... | |||
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Jodi| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
This whole thing about using a piano chord is kinda bugging me. I think having the same chords just repeated would be kinda yucky.... Why did they choose a single piano chord instead of other options, like more than one chord or an actual piece of music. Why did they choose piano and not guitar? Or harp? Also I think they need to re-do the study and add experimental groups of musicians and non-musicians. I need answers..... 
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| Beatification Candidate |
I don't know how they came to choose a piano chord to elicit a response, but auditory signals have a long history in psychological experiments. I'm reminded of Pavlov and his dogs. Big Al
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| czarina Has Achieved Nirvana  |
I'm thinking that the pitch level of the tuning and the stretch between intervals in the tuning would make a big difference in the therapeutic (if any) effect.
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
Well, it sort of sounds like BS to me. But it could be a very satisfying chord, especially in a wider, more open note distribution, say with c in the deep bass and others spread across adjacent octaves. And why piano? It would be more effective played as a drone, with orchestral sounds, or even electronically.
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| Minor Deity |
I would have thought it would be a chord progression with a really satisfying resolution.
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
I'm thinking they're going for something that doesn't foster concentration. Relaxation instead. | |||
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