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Do you ever dream about well known musicians (or other famous people)?
brianlux
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If dreams were intentional, I'd say this would have to be the most blatant example of over-the-top fandom that I could think of but I don't control my dreams so I will admit to having dreams about some of my favorite musicians. Shortly after he died, I dreamed Jimi Hendrix played a new song for me that I'd never heard. It was awesome. I've had several dreams about jamming with and/or having intense conversations with Paul Westerberg and later, as I got more into Pearl Jam, with Eddie Vedder.
Last night I had this dream that J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr) had set up a web site such that you could interface with him by jamming with him on-line. I thought, "I can't do that!" But then I thought, "What the heck, why not?" So I dialed into J's site and started jamming with him. I was playing my Martin LX1 "Little Martin" acoustic and it was actually going pretty well. When we stopped, I could hear J generously tell me, "Hey, that was pretty good... but I could barely hear you. What are you playing?" I told him I was playing an LX1 Little Martin. I said I wasn't sure if there was a way to put a pick up on it, but maybe that would help. And then all of the sudden, J was standing right there with me and I handed him my guitar and in his hands it was just this tiny little instrument and he said, "Oh, that's cute!" What was equally strange was that J had on this dirty plain white t-shirt, he smelled a bit sweaty but not super offensively and he had cut the front of his hair into bangs. He was very friendly and casual in talking with me.
I have to say, it was a great dream. I'm 99.999999% sure that's the only chance I'll ever get of jamming with J!
All these dreams feel very real to me, almost as if they happened in an alternate world.
Anyone else have these kinds of dreams?
Last night I had this dream that J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr) had set up a web site such that you could interface with him by jamming with him on-line. I thought, "I can't do that!" But then I thought, "What the heck, why not?" So I dialed into J's site and started jamming with him. I was playing my Martin LX1 "Little Martin" acoustic and it was actually going pretty well. When we stopped, I could hear J generously tell me, "Hey, that was pretty good... but I could barely hear you. What are you playing?" I told him I was playing an LX1 Little Martin. I said I wasn't sure if there was a way to put a pick up on it, but maybe that would help. And then all of the sudden, J was standing right there with me and I handed him my guitar and in his hands it was just this tiny little instrument and he said, "Oh, that's cute!" What was equally strange was that J had on this dirty plain white t-shirt, he smelled a bit sweaty but not super offensively and he had cut the front of his hair into bangs. He was very friendly and casual in talking with me.
I have to say, it was a great dream. I'm 99.999999% sure that's the only chance I'll ever get of jamming with J!
All these dreams feel very real to me, almost as if they happened in an alternate world.
Anyone else have these kinds of dreams?
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2003: St. Paul
2005: Thunder Bay
2008: West Palm Beach, Tampa
2009: Chicago I, Chicago II
2010: Boston
2011: Toronto I, Toronto II, Winnipeg
2012: Missoula
2013: London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
2014: St. Paul, Milwaukee
2016: Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto I, Toronto II
2022: Hamilton, Toronto
2023: St. Paul I, St. Paul II
Otherwise, my dreams tend to be borne of my subconscious plus some weird abstract shit.
I kinda like it - the experience, and the attempts to analyze them.
When I was a kid (maybe 8 years old or so) I had a dream in which my body was frozen in such a way that I could not move a muscle. In fact, I could barely breath. I felt an evil spirit coming toward me and I was terrified. I was basically half-dreaming because I was conscious of my inability to move. I finally managed to move an arm or a leg and that broke the lock on my body. I got up and left my room and felt the evil spirit pursuing me. I went down the hall to may parents room and just as I got to their door, I quickly froze up again and could not move or call out to my parents. That's all I remember but I do believe it was real. I generally rely on science and empirical evidence to explain the world but I'm not sure if there is a scientific explanation for the dream state other than accepting the possibility of dreams being another reality. I've experienced all of the senses- sight, smell, feeling, hearing, taste- and everything in dreams from pure ecstasy to death. I was shot to death in a dream once, disproving something a friend told me once which was that if you die in your dream you will physically die. Sure glad he was wrong!
I vividly see their faces and they talk to me.
I wake up and wonder who were they as I've never seen them before.
Are they spirits? Is my mind conjuring up images?
Kind of freaks me out.
Does anyone else have the same dreams?
No need to worry, Brian. It's normal, though frightening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
I read somewhere that even those faces are people you’ve seen at some point in your life. Whether it’s just someone you walked by in public, someone you may have met and don’t remember, etc. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
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Me my brother and his wife all died in the dream.
Scared me
I shouldn't laugh. I've had numerous dreams about having to take a crap in a public bathroom. The worst dreams, ugh!