I GET INSPIRATIONS FOR WRITING SONGS/MUSIC FROM MY DREAMS.
Over the years, since I been a singer I dreamt of many songs; some I've recorded on tape and written and others I just let fly. But of late, I’d stop recording and writing them all together, because I thought there's no chance I’ll get anywhere with them now that I'm older. But, about 5.45 Monday morning 18/01/2016 just between asleep and awake, I dreamt I heard an acoustic guitar playing. Still in my sleep/awake state, I started humming a melody to what was playing on the guitar that sounded so sweet. As I was humming, I could see what looked like notes ? ? ? ? ?, instead of actual music notes appearing on what looked like a small conveyer belt moving along as the notes appeared. Then I heard like three female backing vocalists singing in harmony, then, a female lead vocalist singing words to my melody. It sounded so good, I imagined it being a hit song. I was completely awake when I thought; should I do a recording of melody and words I remembered, or should I just go back to sleep? Then I thought, no, I won't record it because it won't come to anything - just like all those other songs I'd dreamt of and had got out of bed and recorded. But, I couldn't get back to sleep after 45 mins, then I thought; this song sound so good I can’t let it fly so I got out of bed and recorded what I remembered.
It was around 1980/81 when I met a guy on an office machinery course he and I were studying; he also studied psychology. I told him about my dreaming of songs, and he replied; you’ve been inspired, and advised me to get out of bed and record them straight away because I'd forget them, and they may come in handy someday. I followed his advice but they didn't come in handy as I still have them – a few finished and the others still in my post-dream state.
One song I did remember word for word and melody; is one what I wrote after dreaming sitting on a bench in an industrial area next to Elvis Presley (just after he died). He was singing this song which I titled "The First Time I Saw Her". I didn't get the opportunity to record that song and still have it amongst my other unfinished (dreamt of) songs.
On some songs, I hold my notes so long that I'll run out of breath and then start gasping for air. That wakes me up! When I wake up I always say out loud; “now why can't I sing like that for real!” I don't know if I actually sing out loud in my sleep - although, I know I talk/have conversations in my sleep and wake up still talking/having a conversation. But, if I did sing out loud, probably my neighbours would have been knocking on the wall by now, as I have a powerful voice.
All of this have been going on for years - on and off.
