Author Topic: I had the coolest dream last night (Read 455 times)

markthemuscleshark · « **on:** July 14, 2011, 06:35:50 PM »

The subject might sound a little irrelevant to the forum, but bear with me on this. Okay, I was in my house, when my mom hands me a guitar. It was the most beautiful Alembic guitar I had ever seen. It was a Series 2, judging by the lack of Q switches and the single coil pickups/hum canceller. The sandwich was very vivid in the dream, it was a vermilion body, with a walnut top and back, there were maple/purpleheart pinstripes, no accent laminates. The neck was INCREDIBLE. It's like someone took a mold of my hand in playing position, turned it into a neck, and shaved it down. Literally the perfect neck. It was so thin it was barely there. On top of that, it was the perfect recipe, maple with three ebony laminates, three beaufitul black stripes down the whole neck. I could even see some nice brown streaks throughout the laminates, this was a VERY vivid dream. The coolest, most vivid detail, was that the whole instrument was finished in oil. The neck and body wood grain felt very coarse and open pored, it felt like someone cut out a chunk of tree from a forest, and it felt SOOOOOO good. The strings felt kinda heavy, but had less tension, so it was probably a 24.75 inch scale. The weirdest detail was when I asked my mom, How much did the ebony laminates cost? since I was angry that she spent my money (maybe in the dream I gave her money to buy me a guitar, who knows?). She replied, Oh, about 250 bucks (Gee, wouldn't that be nice?). The only bad part of this dream is, before I ever got to hear it plugged in, I woke up. I always seem to wake up at the worst times when I have dreams like that. Maybe because I've never actually heard a series instrument, my subconcious couldn't come up with the appropriate sound. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but since it was such a vivid dream it's been floating around in my head all day. Has anyone else had an experience like this?

dela217 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2011, 06:56:22 PM »

jacko · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2011, 04:23:39 AM »

billostech · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2011, 04:50:05 AM »

Maybe it's a sign for a custom build.....

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2011, 07:56:58 AM »

One night I dreamed that I was playing Piano like Bill Evans, it was so beautifull. Suddenly I got so excited that I was playing so nice, that I started to play fast runs like Oscar Peterson. I was killing it, but then I remembered that I can't play Piano that good, not even close, and woke up.

Great night, depressing morning... Ha ha ha

* (the worst is that I couldn't remind how was the song, may be my best composition ever)

David Houck · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2011, 10:58:40 AM »

Okay, here's one. This happened fairly recently, maybe a week or so ago. After sleeping for a little over three hours I awoke, and then kinda settled into a semi-dream state where my body was still asleep, but a subroutine in my head wanted to work on music. The 'dream' started as a jam session with me, Art, and Mark, a drummer that Art and I have both played with. We started with something simple, Little Wing, playing that for a while; and over time it started getting better and better. Then we moved on to writing progressive rock; and over time that started getting better and better too. A few hours later I finally awoke; and like Mario wrote, the music we were playing was wonderful, but immediately forgotten.

I've noticed that if I miss a couple days of practice, my mind will start working on music in my sleep. It's like a computer program that, if not opened, is set to auto-run after some period of time.

The worst thing as far as dreams was years ago when I used to work in a high stress deadline driven office. For weeks before the major deadlines we would be putting in 80 hour weeks in an office where the stress was so thick you could feel it just walking to the coffee pot. And at night, the dreams were the same thing; the same office, the same people, the same work, the same stress.

I like the music dreams better.

sparechaynge · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2011, 11:08:49 AM »

When I first discovered Alembic, I very badly wanted the Spyder that John Entwhistle had during the 70s. After a long day of research about the bass on the internet, a thunderstorm hit my house while I was sleeping. Being in a similar slightly awake state that Dave has described, for every lightning bolt that flashed through my window I saw a flash of flame maple, walnut, brass, and a silver spiderweb.

artswork99 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2011, 11:36:44 AM »

Mark, you and I

it would be a good session for sure!

hydrargyrum · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2011, 12:29:30 PM »

I recently started playing with a new band. They take things pretty seriously, and play out frequently. For the last several nights the last dream I've had has been of rehearsing, and I always wake up with a song in my head endlessly repeating. This typically means heading downstairs around 5:30 or so in the morning to begin practicing until I have to get ready for my day job. Last night I dreamed I received some gear on loan from an effects company to try out. I was enjoying it until I woke up, and didn't have the equipment any longer.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2011, 12:48:41 PM »

Oh, I've just remembered once time I dreamed I was rehearsing to play with Led Zeppelin, and - at some point - I saw Jimmy Page looking over his shoulders and gave me that smile, as if he was as pleased to be playing with me as I was to be there. But when I thought Wow, this can't be hapening..., I woke up.

Note that I like Zep, but not a huge fan and was a surprise why I choosed to be at their side. Jimmy wore that black and red outfit from 'The Songs Remains the Same' and was playing his double neck SG. That song I remember, it was The Ocean and I was feeling great. Funny...

mike1762 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2011, 08:31:04 PM »

I've often had the perfect song dream only to completely forget it upon awakening. However... about a year ago I had a note pad beside my bed and I managed to scribble enough notes that I WAS able to recall it the next day. It sucked.

David Houck · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2011, 08:33:27 PM »

LOL!!!

palmann · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2011, 05:48:00 AM »

I've often had the perfect song dream only to completely forget it upon awakening.

I absolutely know that. Other than that I gererally don't dream about music or instruments. When I have a lot of work, I dream about good argumentation and of solution of problems I have. When I wake up I forgot the argumentation and the problems are still unsolved. ;-)

Gruesse, Pablo

bigredbass · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2011, 07:29:59 AM »

I never had an experience like that, but it puts me in mind of Paul McCartney writing 'Yesterday'.

If I've got this right, he woke up with the music fully formed, and wrote it down promptly, but had no lyric ideas at all. So he walked around with it for over a year, and the melody suggested to him: 'Ham and eggs, oh how I love my ham and egss . . . '. Eventually this morphed into the 'Yesterday' we all know now.

J o e y

lbpesq · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2011, 11:15:31 AM »

I thought it was Scrambled eggs.

I've also heard another version, (not by Paul), that went:
Leprosy
I'm not half the man I used to be
All my skin is falling off of me
Since I came down with
Leprosy

lol

Bill, tgo