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Topic: Do you ever dream in prog?
Posted By: Replayer
Subject: Do you ever dream in prog?
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 13:39
There have been a handful of times when I was dreaming that I was listening to a great piece of music that built up gradually and culminated in an awesome guitar solo. The problem was that I don't play guitar and I forgot the music within a minute of waking up anyway.

Did anyone else experience progressive music (either previously known or new) while dreaming?



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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 13:42
oh hell yeah.. I had a dream of sucking Annie Haslams toes once Thumbs Up


Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 13:47
Well, that was unexpected, though I'm not sure I'd post that in public, especially on a forum the wife frequents. LOL


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 13:49
oh she knows... there are no secrets between us she got curious when I got a certain fixastion out of the blue to start sucking on hers! LOL


Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 14:25
Ahem

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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 15:39
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

oh hell yeah.. I had a dream of sucking Annie Haslams toes once Thumbs Up


Wow, I read once that Annie had a dream that her big toe formed a crucial ingredient in a Micky bourbon on the rocks.

Raff had better be careful

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Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: April 29 2017 at 17:07
Every time I close my eyes
There`s another vivid surprise
Another whole life waiting
Chapters unfinished, fading

Closer now - Slowly coming into view
I`ve arrived - Blinding sunshine beaming through

There`s a house I`m drawn into
Familiar settings, nothing new
There`s a pathway leading there
With a haunting chill in the air

There`s a room at the top of the stairs
Every night I`m drawn up there
There`s a girl in the mirror
Her face is getting clearer
Young child won`t you tell me why I`m here?

In her eyes - I sense a story never told
Behind the disguise - There`s something tearing
At her soul

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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 02:57
It happens quite often to me. Sometiems I also remember at least the main theme but when I really play it, it's not as good as in the dream.

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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 06:33
I had that dream a few times, except that I play guitar, and usually forget the song once I'm awake.


Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 07:27
If I ever start dreaming in prog, I'll probably step away from the headphones for a few days, or at the very least wash my brain out with some Metal Machine Music.


Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 08:03
I sometimes dream of being at gigs at which imaginary music gets played. One that sticks in my mind was a Yes gig in a semi-circular auditorium where everything was white - seats, floor, ceiling, stage and backdrop. For some reason the lights did not go down when the band came on, so the whole place was brightly illuminated throughout. The lineup was Anderson, Squire, Howe, Bruford and some guy on keyboards that I didn't recognise doing mainly Hammond and Moog, supplemented by a horn section of three sax, two trumpets and a trombone and two guys on congas. Playing a kind of Yessified space jazz fusion with the horns taking a lot of what would usually be synth parts in Yes. It was f**king ace.


Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 09:26
Wow, that's an awesomely specific recollection of the dream you had. It sounded epic.

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

One that sticks in my mind was a Yes gig in a semi-circular auditorium where everything was white - seats, floor, ceiling, stage and backdrop. [. . .] The lineup was Anderson, Squire, Howe, Bruford


Looks like there was one thing that wasn't White Big smile


Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 10:05
^ I hadn't thought of that


Posted By: ginodi
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 10:25
I hear music all the time because I am recording my second CD (you won't hear the first one--I give them away), so when I am locked in that mode I can't get away from it. 


Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 13:36
Non

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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 16:32
I occasionally dream that I'm record shopping and coming across all these albums with outstanding cover-art by bands that don't even exist. And the artworks are just in my head, usually incorporating a mix of, say, Hipgnosis, Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews etc. all melded together to form something entirely new.....


Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 16:33
It happens but not often (new music usually but I guess it feels better in the dream than it actually is); my love for football (soccer) dominates my love for music easily in dreams. Which is a pity because I love all music dreams whereas my football team sometimes gets a painful beating.


Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 18:05
I have had dreams about being at Yes concerts or prog festivals. Usually the festivals are outdoors in some field. 

I had a dream once where I was on stage with Yes playing keyboards with Jon Anderson. In the dream he told me to "move over." When I met Jon in person I told him about that dream and we re-enacted it with both of us playing air keyboards and him saying "yeah, move over." Priceless. Tongue


Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 30 2017 at 21:33
I had a dream about Ivan once... does that count? LOL


Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 00:36
I had an excellent Yes dream last night!  I was hanging out with the Relayer version of Yes...as I recall, Moraz was a scream!!  

May all of your dreams be good ones! Thumbs Up


Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 03:57
I Dream The Electric Sleep, occasionally.

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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 05:15
Yes.  I find the majority of my prog dreams quite pleasurable.  Occasionally the wurm turns and I find myself  playing guitar on stage.  Anxiety ensues when, I realize Progachives will lambast YES and "Yours Truly" for displacing Steve Howe. YIKES!


Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 07:25
No, never.
In fact, there is never music of any kind in my dreams.


Posted By: surrogate people
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 07:50
Very few times I dreamed melodies which ended up being from sogs I already knew. I'm no Paul Mc Cartney.

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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 08:57
I wish I could mic up my dreams in some magical way. I've heard some of the most interesting music in my sleep. I am not sure I can describe it though. Some of it could probably be listed on PA.
Other times music simply invades my dreams. I've heard the full Atom Heart Mother suite a couple of times like that.

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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: May 01 2017 at 09:09
Prog dreams about me.

One time I dreamed I found a pack of Belmont cigarettes on the sidewalk; I woke up and walked down the street...and found a pack of Belmont cigarettes. That was by far the most progressive dream I've ever had.




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Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: May 02 2017 at 08:17
I just had a dream last night where Mike Oldfield was playing a early 80s Tangerine Dream style composition. The strange thing is that he looked like he did in music video where he mimed playing Heaven's Open for a German studio audience and he was playing an instrument I can only describe as a large circle made of looped corrugated plastic hose that was played by expanding and contracting sections of the hose, which resulted in LED lights turning on and off within the hose.


Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 02 2017 at 08:27
Never thought of it that way. mostly (I imagine!) because I do not think of music as "progressive" or "this or that" at all.

My dreams bring out a lot of what I write, be they poetry or short stories, and Iwork with them a lot, and pay special attention to the non-rem (whatever they are called, right?) stuff, since the first level is a mish-mash of daily stuff.

However, in many of those I have been with Daevid Allen and on his workshops and I did not play a guitar, but was able to communicate and talk and create words for the music that was being created at the time. For me, that is a far out thing, since being "tuned" means that one can feel what/where things might be, and how to interpret them.

A couple of other entertaining moments, have been a very long discussion with Edgar Froese about art, and how he saw it (he kinda didn't in a way! He thought most of it was just a moment in time, not art). A few others will remain private as this is all part of a book I am putting together of things that (FOR ME) explained some levels in music that have no definition. 

Another great example, and hopefully you can go through it one day, is Peter Brook's "The Tightrope", and I have seen many a rehearsal and concert by King Crimson, in exactly the same way, and it is the main reason why I mention a lot of times, what might be the process of how King Crimson comes alive and creates music. On his own, by himself with his electronics, RF is a completely different person, and he merely allows the sound to take him anywhere it goes, and to me, that is far more interesting, because as individuals we can go further than we can as a group ... it is much more difficult to "come together" than it is to come apart.

None of this is "progressive" for me ... as I consider this all a part of our life, be it called "inner" or "outer"m since, in the end, it is exactly the same person, and we really do not have any criteria to define one as true and the other false, or vice versa.


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Posted By: WeepingElf
Date Posted: May 02 2017 at 11:49
I also have prog in dreams occasionally. In one dream, I heard a King Crimson song Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "The Power of Love" was a cover version of, with Mellotron and all that. In another, I was in an Elven city, and a band of Elves played Yes-like music.



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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 02 2017 at 13:12
No! Nada! Never!!

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Posted By: Kustin
Date Posted: May 03 2017 at 08:33
I remember hearing the intro to "On The Backs of Angels" as if it was played by a string orchestra, which was at the time before Dream Theater's self-titled album was released (and had an actual orchestra in two tracks).


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 03 2017 at 09:08
I remember I dreamed I was playing Xanadu on guitar (the Rush song, not that one by Olivia Newton-John). Must have been back in 1981 or 1982. When I woke up, I tried to reproduce it and this worked out quite well Smile.

That was the only time I dreamed in prog, as far as I can remember.



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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 03 2017 at 12:27
whooo hoooo... oh this ought to be good...

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Never thought of it that way. mostly (I imagine!) because I do not think of music as "progressive" or "this or that" at all.

My dreams bring out a lot of what I write, be they poetry or short stories, and Iwork with them a lot, and pay special attention to the non-rem (whatever they are called, right?) stuff, since the first level is a mish-mash of daily stuff.

However, in many of those I have been with Daevid Allen and on his workshops and I did not play a guitar, but was able to communicate and talk and create words for the music that was being created at the time. For me, that is a far out thing, since being "tuned" means that one can feel what/where things might be, and how to interpret them.

A couple of other entertaining moments, have been a very long discussion with Edgar Froese about art, and how he saw it (he kinda didn't in a way! He thought most of it was just a moment in time, not art). A few others will remain private as this is all part of a book I am putting together of things that (FOR ME) explained some levels in music that have no definition. 

Another great example, and hopefully you can go through it one day, is Peter Brook's "The Tightrope", and I have seen many a rehearsal and concert by King Crimson, in exactly the same way, and it is the main reason why I mention a lot of times, what might be the process of how King Crimson comes alive and creates music. On his own, by himself with his electronics, RF is a completely different person, and he merely allows the sound to take him anywhere it goes, and to me, that is far more interesting, because as individuals we can go further than we can as a group ... it is much more difficult to "come together" than it is to come apart.

None of this is "progressive" for me ... as I consider this all a part of our life, be it called "inner" or "outer"m since, in the end, it is exactly the same person, and we really do not have any criteria to define one as true and the other false, or vice versa.


good god man...  I hope someday to get to meet you and proceed to get you sh*t-faced ...

I bet you are an animal man...


Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: May 04 2017 at 01:00
Prog (or any other music... which means some classical and rock) dreams only while awake.

Never jazz.

Oh well too bad never mind.


Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: May 04 2017 at 03:56
Never


Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 04 2017 at 06:35
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

whooo hoooo... oh this ought to be good...
...
good god man...  I hope someday to get to meet you and proceed to get you sh*t-faced ...

I bet you are an animal man...

Actually very quiet and do not say much ... in the 3 hour acting exercise, I did not say a single word in 3 hours, and even the professor wondered why the quietness ... and I said ... do not the expressions, movement and actor details count on the stage?

It tells you that we're too tied to words, and not the rest ... I took lessons from a blind person, and a mute person ... and to me, they still are, today, some 35 years later, the very best teachers of acting, theater and music I have ever seen or had the pleasure of spending time with. 

We have nothing to gain from Rachel Flowers, do we? 


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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: May 04 2017 at 15:12
Every night.

Oddly enough I had a dream about Starcastle last night.

Freud would have a field day with that.


Posted By: brainstormer
Date Posted: May 04 2017 at 22:39
I have probably had about 30 dreams over the years with some prog rock character in it.  I dream almost every night so it's not like it's the predominant theme.   I've had some dreams with Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Paul McCartney, too.   Too bad never had one with a classical composer, that I can remember. 

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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: May 06 2017 at 12:54
I've dreamed/heard-when-patially-asleep a few times but I wouldn't say it was prog. The first and most intense time was really, really grand classical music on many stringed instruments (I think). Then sometimes I when I fall asleep thinking of a band I'll wake up hearing lyrics sung in the style of that band (it's awesome because it's like the two halves of my brain are working together faster than if I tried to concentrate on something. But I always forget it shortly after waking up) aaaand semirecently I heard some rock with a neat riff and solo.

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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: May 07 2017 at 15:22
too much cheese before bedtime and its the whole of Mekanik destrutiw kommandoh...


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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: May 07 2017 at 19:14
Cosmiclawnmower dreams in Kobaian!  And my electric sheep dreams in eclectic prog - Frippian soundscapes in Roger Dean scenes.

Phil Collins dreams in prog but his conscious self represses it.....I bet his wife has stopped sleeping next to him 'cause he breaks out in spastic spurts of Lamb air drum fills in the middle of the night.  His wife has to play Sussudio at double speed just to snap him back in to Disney reality.  

Eric Clapton dreams of Robert Johnson hounding him from the grave for selling his soul to Phil Collins in the 80s......man, must be a lot of cats with Phil Collins on their trail nightmares. 


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