Familiar Tune

[aussie_musician]

Dream From Aug 15 '14:

Dream 2, being one of three from that date.

The setting is a stage.

A man is standing on the stage, playing a keyboard styled guitar, left handed.

His left hand is on the keys, and right hand is on the neck of the guitar.

The keys are slightly down on his hips like that of a guitar, with the neck up at an angle.

He could be practicing a song.

I see him, front view.

Only two of the lights on the stage are on.

Being on the stage, means he is slightly higher than me.

He is playing a tune, which to me seems vaguely familiar, like something from the 80s.

I tilt my head to the left, (like that of Larissa the late dog used to do).

I hear the tune, and for some reason, i know it, hence the tilt of the head.

I think I'd know it, when I hear it.

When I tilt my head, his mate leaves to his right of stage, being my left.

When I do tilt my head, to think of the tune and as the other guy steps off stage, the keys man smiles and says to his mate about me while looking at me "he's starting to get it".

What does that mean, or what is he referring to?

Any questions or comments?
There could be, or is, a black curtain behind him, hence the couple of lights being on.

 

[PaulKH]

Heh, I almost bought a keyboard like that (I desired one, so I could join my guitar buds), but had already invest too much in a pair of larger ones that were A-frame style, so I can easily visualize it. And of course many performer-musicians live for having an audience *get* them and the effort/interpretation they pour into the music, so makes sense that he would see and like your response. Do you remember enough about your musical impression to think if the piece was an arrangement or maybe even an original that was only *similar* to something you knew? Was it felt on a resonance/"I get it" level or more like that song-title-just-on-the-tip-of-the-tongue way? The pair of lights and black curtain are of course the most basic way to focus the attention on the stage presence, so it's like your mind didn't want you to focus on anything else but the musician/instrument/song. And yet, you knew he had a partner/helper/bandmate--anything else you remember or can guess about what he was doing? Was he coming toward you from the side of the stage or just perhaps prepping for a later show? Seems like the ideal setup of someone doing a live test (mic check, we called it) to work out the kinks and jitters before a show.

If you remember, did you see yourself tilting your head and have any kind of disjointedness from that, or just knew from the standard-feeling first person that you were doing that and what it must have looked like from the performer's standpoint? I'll just stick to the perspective and let others speculate about the symbolism. But as I said earlier, I love dreams like this; they might not be nothing, but they *feel* extra special/meaningful because of the music.

 

[aussie_musician]

Heh, I almost bought a keyboard like that (I desired one, so I could join my guitar buds), but had already invest too much in a pair of larger ones that were A-frame style, so I can easily visualize it. And of course many performer-musicians live for having an audience *get* them and the effort/interpretation they pour into the music, so makes sense that he would see and like your response. Do you remember enough about your musical impression to think if the piece was an arrangement or maybe even an original that was only *similar* to something you knew? Was it felt on a resonance/"I get it" level or more like that song-title-just-on-the-tip-of-the-tongue way? The pair of lights and black curtain are of course the most basic way to focus the attention on the stage presence, so it's like your mind didn't want you to focus on anything else but the musician/instrument/song. And yet, you knew he had a partner/helper/bandmate--anything else you remember or can guess about what he was doing? Was he coming toward you from the side of the stage or just perhaps prepping for a later show? Seems like the ideal setup of someone doing a live test (mic check, we called it) to work out the kinks and jitters before a show.

If you remember, did you see yourself tilting your head and have any kind of disjointedness from that, or just knew from the standard-feeling first person that you were doing that and what it must have looked like from the performer's standpoint? I'll just stick to the perspective and let others speculate about the symbolism. But as I said earlier, I love dreams like this; they might not be nothing, but they *feel* extra special/meaningful because of the music.

Hey Paul.
In the dream, i knew the tune, but had to remember what it was, which took awhile.
The tune, i believe is from this song, the bridge of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQyVUTcpM4
The tilting of the head, well, i yes i knew that i was doing that.

 

[PaulKH]

Heh, been a very long time since I've heard that one--thanks for the link. Pop-rock from before the culture wars ignited and so many decided to go insane (I say "decided" because societal dysfunction is both a contagion *and* a conscious choice...remember the "dream" that the modern world was supposed to be an accepted blending of cultures rather than a battleground?).

Do you remember, by chance, if you had heard the song recently and so it was used for its resonance to you or perhaps to serve a messaging purpose, or is it one of those that gets pulled out of seemingly nowhere? Just curious because I had one where I was teaching--or at least highlighting--the beauty that can be major-to-minor transitions/resolves to a shadowed group (they were offstage and I was under the light), and it took me at least an hour of intense searching right when I woke up to find it: it turned out to be a song I might have heard in passing on the radio but didn't think I had paid much attention to it. The fact I used that particular song and had perfect pitch in my dream is very noteworthy to me (yes, yes pun intended, heh). Because of this, I not only feel more strongly about music being a form of "language" and used by the dream realm as such, but that music can be both recognizable and "foreign" at the same time. A lack of familiarity certainly doesn't prevent the dream from using it for various purposes. Thoughts?

 

[aussie_musician]

Heh, been a very long time since I've heard that one--thanks for the link. Pop-rock from before the culture wars ignited and so many decided to go insane (I say "decided" because societal dysfunction is both a contagion *and* a conscious choice...remember the "dream" that the modern world was supposed to be an accepted blending of cultures rather than a battleground?).

Do you remember, by chance, if you had heard the song recently and so it was used for its resonance to you or perhaps to serve a messaging purpose, or is it one of those that gets pulled out of seemingly nowhere? Just curious because I had one where I was teaching--or at least highlighting--the beauty that can be major-to-minor transitions/resolves to a shadowed group (they were offstage and I was under the light), and it took me at least an hour of intense searching right when I woke up to find it: it turned out to be a song I might have heard in passing on the radio but didn't think I had paid much attention to it. The fact I used that particular song and had perfect pitch in my dream is very noteworthy to me (yes, yes pun intended, heh). Because of this, I not only feel more strongly about music being a form of "language" and used by the dream realm as such, but that music can be both recognizable and "foreign" at the same time. A lack of familiarity certainly doesn't prevent the dream from using it for various purposes. Thoughts?

Some songs, such as this one, come to mind, when listening to other songs by the same band or artist.
Or i get the tune of a song in my mind, while thinking of something else.
Being an 80s kid, those tunes are stuck in my mind somewhere for me to remember them.

 

[PaulKH]

Some songs, such as this one, come to mind, when listening to other songs by the same band or artist.
Or i get the tune of a song in my mind, while thinking of something else.
Being an 80s kid, those tunes are stuck in my mind somewhere for me to remember them.

Makes sense--so in a way that song is one of your "formative" ones, tunes that need very little reason/relation to pop back into your mind (ones you perhaps even measure others by). I say there are much worse songs to have stuck in your head.

 

[aussie_musician]

Makes sense--so in a way that song is one of your "formative" ones, tunes that need very little reason/relation to pop back into your mind (ones you perhaps even measure others by). I say there are much worse songs to have stuck in your head.

Not all Bon Jovi songs enter my mind every day, though Keep The Faith, Blaze of Glory, In These Arms, come to mind when necessary.
The song i do like the most is probably It's My Life.
Bon Jovi is one of many bands/artists from the 80s that i like to listen to.
It is probably my memories of the 80s, not so much measuring others.

 

[MistressLex]

I wish I had music in my dreams mine tend to only have sounds and words.... but I don't know how I'd feel about bon jovis dead or alive rocking my dreamscape feels like I'm asking for trouble lol