Any else ever have the "i can play great!" dream

**xed** · #1 02-03-2011, 07:41 PM

Every few months I have a lucid dream where I can play almost anything I can think of. All the technical limitations disappear and I can easily hit any note I go for. It's a "better than sex dream" dream (for me at least).

Just curious if this is a common theme with anyone else.

Spaldo · #2 02-03-2011, 07:44 PM

Every waking hour...

bjabass · #3 02-03-2011, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xed

Every few months I have a lucid dream where I can play almost anything I can think of. All the technical limitations disappear and I can easily hit any note I go for. It's a "better than sex dream" dream (for me at least).

Just curious if this is a common theme with anyone else.

Nope, but I'm trying to fall asleep right now.....

Lublin · #4 02-03-2011, 08:07 PM

I had the opposite the other night. Was really sick with the flu and a tooth abscess, on a lot of meds, and had a dream in which a huge band asked me to fill in for their bass player who mysteriously didn't show.....and I had to learn all of the sounds by ear in 5 minutes.

Talk about an anxiety nightmare.

svenbass · #5 02-03-2011, 08:09 PM

Not exactly a playing dream, but I did help Pink Floyd pack up their instruments after a performance of the Wall in a TV studio.

I was in a strange mood the rest of the day

Boyakasha · #6 02-03-2011, 08:10 PM

I dreamt I was trying to figure out a riff but couldn't.

C.Linton · #7 02-03-2011, 08:12 PM

Yup, all the time, although, more often than not, for some reason, it happens with keyboard, which I don't play at all. But it does occasionally happen with bass and guitar, too. Oh ,and singing too. Feels exciting.

BryanM · #8 02-03-2011, 08:14 PM

I love those sorts of dreams. It's a shame though, ever since I started lucid dreaming, I'm really disappointed when I'm forced to land after every jump.

jet_king · #9 02-03-2011, 08:14 PM

I HAVE THOSE!! my last one was dreaming i was in MUSE and i knew how to play all their songs and i played with them at a concert they showed on television.........then i woke up

T40Chump · #10 02-03-2011, 08:14 PM

I've had that dream. Except I'm naked and it's freezing outside.

Kind of a dream/nightmare thing.

puddin tame · #11 02-03-2011, 08:17 PM

whenever I dream about playing bass i'm very much worse than in real life

MOTORHEADBANGER · #12 02-03-2011, 08:24 PM

I've had good and bad.

Bad: Once I dreamt that I was playing with Aerosmith ( I was sick and I had watched an Aerosmith concert on TV) and I started playing horribly on Walk this Way.

Good: I had a dream that my friends (who are all musicians, but not in the same band) and I were at an outdoor stadium/arena full of people, and we sounded just like Metallica (old Metallica to make it even better).

mrjim123 · #13 02-03-2011, 08:28 PM

This is English speaking thred I heard SO MUCH about????

ShredderMaximus · #14 02-03-2011, 09:39 PM

I've had dreams where I wrote the coolest song I'd ever heard, than forgot it as soon as I woke up

Other dreams that drive me crazy are dreams of acquiring a carton of cigarettes, then waking up really wanting a smoke and not having any or having any means to get one,

Or a weird dream where I'm like Tony Montana with mountains of the white stuff and supermodels and a gorgeous mansion in the jungle, very very vivid, but everytime I bend over to take that first big glorious "sniff" of said "white stuff," I wake up dazed and confused....

very very strange recurring dream.*note* drugs are bad, mmmmmkay?

champbassist · #15 02-04-2011, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Lublin

a huge band asked me to fill in for their bass player who mysteriously didn't show.....and I had to learn all of the sounds by ear in 5 minutes.

I had the same dream a couple months back, understandably during my exams. The band was Type O Negative and I was asked to learn all their stuff in the 1 hour before we got up on stage

Weirdly, Peter Steele was also in the band, just not playing bass

ggunn · #16 02-04-2011, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by xed

Every few months I have a lucid dream where I can play almost anything I can think of. All the technical limitations disappear and I can easily hit any note I go for. It's a "better than sex dream" dream (for me at least).

Just curious if this is a common theme with anyone else.

My recurring dream is that I'm on stage and we're all set up to play, except that my rig won't make a sound. Everyone else's is working and they are all like, "C'mon, man! It's time to start!" I'm swapping cables, checking batteries and fuses, cussing... all to no avail. And then I wake up all pissed off.

It's happened a couple of times in real life as well.

burkhardty10 · #17 02-04-2011, 09:16 AM

I've had that dream many times. Usually I'm up playing with some of my bass heroes during it.

dougjwray · #18 02-04-2011, 09:21 AM

I once had a dream where I was playing a saxophone fantastically well. I "understood" everything I was doing, even though I've never even touched one in real life.

I've also had a recurring "bass anxiety" dream where I'm supposed to make it to a big gig with a band I really did play with, years ago. I have about 5 minutes before the show starts and I'm still at home, physically struggling to get dressed. (My socks are just about big enough for a two-year-old, etc.)

scottbass · #19 02-04-2011, 09:26 AM

I have also had the "bass won't make any noise" nightmare - and it's usually our BIG BREAK at a huge stadium concert.

Although my most-often recurring annoying dream (not really a nightmare) is just that I'm playing Born To Be Wild with a mundane cover band in a biker bar somewhere in western Wisconsin. And then I wake up and feel depressed because that's my real life, too.

But I can play Born To Be Wild perfectly in my sleep AND in real life!!!

Melik · #20 02-04-2011, 09:30 AM

I had a dream of this kind with an alto sax! Which I play *ahem* really well!