Have you ever had a dream like this?

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (46 of them)
i once had a dream that i was in the Modern English and we were in the forest with all our equipment and we had to play "melt with you" in like 30 seconds, and i kept looking at my watch in a panic because noone knew how to play the song and when it finally came time to play the song i ended up playing guitar, keyboards, bass, and singing. i pulled it off pretty well but i was freakin' out the whole time, because at first i was just supposed to sing it, and then all of a sudden id see a keyboard in front of me, and id think "oh shit, that keyboard part's about to come up and nobody's here to play it. IM GONNA HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT ON THE SPOT!" by the end of the song i was exhausted, but satisfied with the performance. nobody was there to see it happen though, so i dont know why i was so worried about playing it right.

Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

nah, I never read that review. that's fucking funny, though.

uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I also had a dream where Cookie Monster was being a completely sardonic shithead.

For some reason, there was some big sesame street giveaway and on tv they announced my name and told me I won like 20 things and I just had to call this phone number to win. And because of all my shithead friends talking, I forgot the phone number, and tried to ask them all what it was, but they didn't know.

all of a sudden, Cookie Monster's bastard blue ass was on the television screen telling someone a knock-knock joke, and it went:

Knock Knock
Who's there?
Robert
Robert Who?
ROBERT, YOUR TIME'S UP

and then he proceeded to laugh at me from the television for about 5 minutes.

Then somehow I got in the television, and I had a proton pack on, and I was trying to electrocute him, I was so pissed off, but he was invincible.

I'm still fucking pissed about that one. Nobody gets the upper hand with me, not even in my dreams.

uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

1. well, I had this dream where my Sting was my TA in my calculus recitation. For some reason he puts a small stereo on and puts on "King of Pain". Then he goes and gives the students their graded problem sets. And goes to me and says: "Here's your problem set Sergei."

2. I once dreamt I was the lead singer for one of the seminal Seattle grunge bands during the late 1980s and we were pondering whether or not to sign to a mayor record label. The dream didn't specify which band it was, but I'm guessing it was Soundgarden.

Cacaman Flores, Friday, 7 May 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahaha, Sting a TA.

My brother had a dream once that a teacher decided to give a lesson through rap.

He told me there was a teacher, and some lady, and they were teaching a lesson to the song "Jump Around" (i'm guessing that song was on while my brother was sleeping), and the lady in the classroom was singing that "wahhhhhhh" whistly part of the song and the teacher started rapping to the class, "pack it up, pack it in..."

uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Sesame Street nightmare: Once I dreamt I was with Pokey from Gumby and we were being chased by muppets and Seasame Street characters and they were screaming: "KILL Them!! KILL them, they're not one of us!!" Basically cause I was human and Pokey was claymation character. The last thing I remember was Bert raising a butcher's knife unto us.

Cacaman Flores, Friday, 7 May 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha. Leave it to ILMers to have dreams with class-struggles in them.

uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn you must have really OD'd on the sesame street as a child. I only ever have nightmares once or twice a year. I have a really fucked up sense of humor though so some dreams that are probably technically supposed to be nightmares just make me laugh. Like this one about a mad scientent who was turning peoples bodies inside out so their organs and bones were on the outside but they were still alive and in agony. He had a huge vat of stomach acid and he kept throwing live rats in there. I woke up laughing.

A couple more music related dreams:
I was at Johnny Cash's house a little while before he died and he was playing me tapes of a song he'd rocorded that day.

A couple months after Kurt Cobain died he was standing on my front porch smoking a cigarette and pouting. I told him he shouldn't have done it and he just stared at the ground. No dreams about Eliott Smith yet, though.

AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

That's because he's not really dead.

NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

What's this now?

AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a dream once where I was on top of a mesa in the middle of the desert next to Lemmy who was picking off people with an AK-47. I'm still a bit bothered by that.

stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

What is there a Elliott Smith conspiracy theory already? Is he living in Jamaica with Tupac or Texas with Cobain?

AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Elliott and Tupac could do a collabo. Ellliott could sing "Somebody that I used to Know" and Pac could come in after each verse like "You wonder why they call you bitch!"

AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

This is the best thread ever.

I will pinch this from Fallnet as I can't remember what I did yesterday, much less any dreams.

>I'm visiting a mountain-top music library with a group of friends and
>the whole thing is being broadcast live, which gives it a kind of
>'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' feel. Our attention is directed to
>a group of racks full of vinyl which are lined up beneath a row of
>picture windows overlooking the rocky valley below. The official
>demonstrator man is picking albums out willy-nilly from the racks,
>holding them up for a frustratingly brief time for the camera before
>letting them fall back, all the time explaining something that's meant
>to be hugely important, but which I ignore because I'm only interested
>in getting my filthy hands on the LPs. Most of the stuff he's pulling
>out looks like charity shop fodder, big photos of archetypal crooner
>types, but presently he hoiks out a Fall record, one I've never seen or
>heard of. Man alive! Somehow I manage to get hold of the thing; it's
>a 4-track ep featuring the tracks "Innovation Management" and
>"Hampshire County Council" (can't remember the other two). It looks
>similar to the "Call for Escape Route" ep, and has a big pic of Brix's
>face on the front. As I examine the sleeve I start to pick up on what
>our guide is saying.
>
>He explains that the library is infested with "hostages" - aliens whose
>normal state is invisible, non-corporeal and harmless, but which are
>revealed to us and given physicality by music. He demonstrates this by
>directing our attention towards the centre of the room (which is large
>and apparently empty apart from pillars and the odd record
>rack) and playing a brief snatch of one of the records. As it plays,
>and the music fills the air, we see the hostages materialise - great
>long pods, 3 or 4 foot in diameter, hang from the ceiling to the floor.
>The pod casings are translucent, and through them we see the contents -
>big wriggly maggot things, which writhe completely *out* of time with
>the music. These things fade in-and-out in a pulsating stylee as you'd
>expect, becoming progressively more solid as the music is allowed to
>continue. Our guide switches it off, and they disappear. "As long as
>there's no music, we're perfectly safe."
>
>Obviously, it turns out we're to live here, sharing the place with a
>psychiatrist/mad doctor type who uses sounds to examine his patients.
>I'm knocking about in the bathroom, feeling anxious, when I hear noises
>coming from his office. They start off as occasional, disconnected
>electronic squonks and glurps, but gradually it develops into something
>that sounds - I realise with both horror and fascination - exactly like
>some 20th Century avant garde 'classical' composition, like Stockhausen
>or something. It occurs to me that this is an opportunity to answer
>once and for all whether or not that kind of thing qualifies as music:
>hostage materialisation = yes, no- show = no. However, a tune starts
>to develop, and I realise we're on for a definite show. "The fool!"
>
>I rush up to the psychiatrist's office to warn him only to see that he is, himself, a hostage in human form. He has morphed into a Mr Hyde
type character. He briefly sets about his patient with fangs and
claws, before leaping back to examine his work; the patient stands, and I see that his eyes have been ripped out (they look like they would if his face were a 2-d image and someone had cut them out roughly with scissors, before pasting it onto a flat red background). The mangled patient half smiles and shouts:

"I CAN SEE!"

Sasha (sgh), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't recall having this sort of dream (I have had Sesame Street nightmares, but that's a bit off of the original topic), but after reading this thread, obviously there are musical thoughts deep in my subconscious and I will likely have such a dream tonight.

Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Felonious Drunk's dream was pretty cool. Having to figure out and play a song all of a sudden all by yourself on all those instruments. Wow.

I once had a dream I was in Oasis' practice room, where there was arguing going on and I was trying to tell Liam Gallagher he needed to let the rest of the band have a say in things. I've also had several dreams where one particular musician is my friend and we hang out in the dream. I think I've had this for Sting, Andrew Eldritch, Stevie Winwood, others. Most of the time it isn't an artist I particularly like.

bimble (bimble), Saturday, 8 May 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I once dreamt I was the "dude" bass player for Sleater-Kinney.

One of the best dreams I ever had was of doing a Pixies medley with the White Stripes at blitz speed. Jack White kept picking random songs and I'd have to leap right in with the Santiago parts. And I never missed a note.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 May 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I have had some sort of dream like this, but the well known band was my own. We were to play a concert and I could only remember how to play certain parts of my songs. One song, I could only remember how to play rhythm guitar. Another, only drums.I kept swiching instruments. Before one song I had to yell at some guy to hand me the left handed guitar. He kept telling me the right handed one was better, but I kept telling him I wrote the song on the left handed one and could only play it left handed. Another song, I was playing a stand up bass and it was taller than me. I was standing on a chair and singing something. I was struggling to get close enough to the microphone.

It seemed fun.

Aja (aja), Saturday, 8 May 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I dreamed I was lead singer for Cornershop and I woke up in a cold sweat

uh (eetface), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Just now had a brand new one. I just woke up from a nap where I dreamt I was playing drums for the Who on "Can't Explain". Which struck me funny as I had fallen asleep listening to "Agaetis Byrjun"......

AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you a musician/performer in real life? Maybe it's some subconscious manifestation of performance anxiety. That'd be my only guess.

I think you could be right.

Buster (mokey), Monday, 10 May 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a dream last night where I was performing with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on a stage in the middle of a desert. I was convinced I was playing the tabla, but it was actually just a table about the size of a desk. Very Mark E. Smith of me.

stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.