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I woke up from a very upsetting Transperformance dream last night. School for the Dead was playing the part of Randy Newman (perhaps fueled by your caption contest photo, Bri). It was the evening of the show and we were to go on in just a few moments. I not only hadn't learned how to play the songs that we were doing, I had never even heard them before.
I tried to get Ken to teach me one but he had to go on stage to play with another act. Thane Thomsen was going over a different song with me and clearly, I had no idea what to do. He kept saying that it would be great and not to worry. I was desperately trying to convince everyone, that it wasn't that I was nervous, it was that I actually had no idea how any of the songs went. They were brand new to me. I think Brian was playing piano.
It's a horrible feeling to go out on stage to perform something that you aren't confident of. Maybe the dream stemmed from my singing a karaoke song earlier last night. But, I don't know why it would, I sang Life In A Northern Town and I was totally confident with it.
Take it easy on yourself...
UPDATE: I just remembered another little bit of the dream. At one point Max comes out of the dressing room looking exactly like a young Dick Clark. I believe it is a costume for his performance with Spanish for Hitchhiking in which he is supposed to look like Frankie Avalon.
7 comments:
Henning, you should TOTALLY try lucid dreaming. Where I used to work years ago we had a book on it. I thought it was completely idiotic.
But they mentioned this weird exercise you can do during the day.
You look at your watch, look away then look back to see if the time or numbers have changed. Well, I tried it during work (sorry, boss) just for fun. I forgot about it by the time I left work.
Can I just tell you that THAT night, a big scary blob alien thing came running at me. A shotgun miraculously appeared in my hand. I stopped him and said, "I'll shoot you if you don't leave me alone."
The blob alien thing looked very disappointed and walked away. That's NOT how my dreams usually end! Here's a link:
http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html
Try to think of some other area of your life, perhaps outside of music, where you will soon be required to do something that you haven't adequately prepared for, possibly something you have to do that many other people will be exposed to in some way and associate with you. Then decide whether it's really such a good idea to wing it or not. Most likely, it isn't. I'm not a Boy Scout but a teacher. No lesson plan for me usually means chaos, wasted time, unproductivity. I always fly off on tangents in class but as soon as I sense it's not going anywhere or we're just chatting and not really learning anything, I always have the plan to come back to. It's a good feeling.
Kids are always asking me to help them interpret what their dreams mean. And I love sharing mine with them, especially when it involves them. One of my students has a blanket she keeps under my desk in case it gets cold in the classroom (she's very skinny so she tends to feel cold sooner than the others). Anyway, I had a dream once that she was sitting on the floor by the wall (like she usually does) with her blanket on but under the blanket she was hiding an infant that she'd given birth to but didn't want anyone to see. The kicker is it turned out that the father of the baby was me. WHOA! I know what you're thinking. All kinds of inappropriate, illegal, immoral, right? However, if you interpret the dream and say the baby we created together is symbolic of a song the two of us co-wrote that she was nervous to sing in front of the other students at the variety show, well, then you'd have a meaning for the dream that's actually not sexual at all but that makes perfect sense. How many of you here might consider songs you've written or any works of art you've created to be like babies, not fruits of your loins but of your muses? Day ya go.
p.s. I left the first comment. The website I gave you was the wrong one - sorry. I'll try to find the right website for that book.
Thanks all you anonymous people. I'm fairly well educated on lucid dreaming, though I'm not too good at it. I've been able to pull it off maybe a couple dozen times in my life.
In our new song "Boring Dream" I actually reference a lucid dreaming technique. You flip a light switch and see if a light comes on. If it doesn't it's a good sign that you are dreaming...or that the bulb is blown out.
But thank you for the link. The more you read about and think about controlling your dreams...the more you actually might. It gets imbedded in your subconcious or something.
Henning, I keep meaning to tell you about this; Brian told me he's unscrewed all the light bulbs in your dreams. So the switches work, but the lights don't come on no matter what. In retaliation, maybe you might saw halfway through his dreamsticks.
maybe, to work this through thoroughly, SFTD needs to learn a couple Randy songs and do a mini-Randy Newman set at your next few shows. Wow! Neat!
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