I'm not talking about you dream one day of being a rockstar, rather the dreams you have in your sleep. Had one last night where for some reason Steve Gadd was in my basement, I was asking him a question about a piece of music from a book and we ended up having a private lesson. That was a great dream!
Funny that you bring this up. Just yesterday I started reading a book on how a lot of great music was written as the result of a dream. There are a staggering number of cases, as admitted to by the musicians. Many different accounts from many varied people have a lot of the same common threads.
I have 2 recurring themes. 1) I'm late to a gig, and I'm setting up while the band is already playing. 2) I'm playing, and my drums/cymbals are slowly drifting away from me and I'm reaching and stretching to get to them. I never have "happy" drumming dreams :-(
Sorry but I had to laugh with you on this. I totally get it.
Yeah, like me. Anxiety dreams. I'm late, I don't have a snare, sticks. That sort of thing.
Why do most of us experience negative dreams more than positive dreams
I have these also, as well as no sticks, pedals or seat. I have also had the borrowed kit and it's either too big or small dream.
My point exactly
Had one last week that was directly related to a thread I started. BeyondBetrayal told me in the thread to tighten the batter, in my dream I did and the technique worked. In my dream I remember thinking he told me to do it, so I will.
The book I'm reading purports that some of the greatest songs were "downloaded" to musicians in their sleep. Many many musician' accounts state that they didn't write the song, they "uncovered" it, like an architect. All of these accounts claim that the song wrote itself in a very short period of time as well.
The book states that music is the bridge between finite and the infinite. So there is a pathway. It doesn't surprise me at all that info can travel down that pathway when we are free from our conscious mind.
There are a few songs cited as examples of songs that were "given" to musicians. They have to do with other-wordly beings and experiences.
The lyrics of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush", the last 2 verses especially, and the entire lyric of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" are offered up as examples of this "download" phenomena. Listen to Kashmir with the lyrics and read them as you're listening. It describes something that doesn't take place on earth. I heard it a million times yet I never got the story being told.
Neil Young..."All in a dream" is part of the lyric to "After the Gold Rush". Neil states it right there. The next line..."The loading had begun"....what do you think he meant by that? Downloading? The chosen ones getting on board the spaceship?
The book also states that dreams scramble almost everything....vision, places, people, situations...but not music. Music remains unaltered in this "download" state. That's what this book is stating. The only catch is that it has to be written down immediately or it won't be remembered in the morning. So a lot of songs were written by musicians who woke up in the middle of the night with inspiration, dashed off to their instrument and banged it out quickly.
For those interested, the book is called. "Tuned In: The Paranormal World of Music" by Grant Cameron.
Neil Young's lyrics:
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.
Led Zeppelin's Kashmir lyrics:
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
Sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
And all will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, baby, I been flying
No, yeah, mama, there ain't no denyin'
Ooh, yeah I've been flying
Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.
Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When movin' through Kashmir.
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
When I'm on, when I'm on my way
When I see, when I see the way, you stay
When I'm down
When I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, ooh, my baby, let me take you there
Come on, come on
Let me take you there, let me take you there.
