I have had my share of strange dreams, but nothing compares to a set of recurring dreams I experienced the night before last. I launched awake from the first dream a few minutes after midnight. Within the dream, I was a member of the rock band Led Zeppelin. I didn’t actually play music with the band but I was somehow important to them and we were discussing how some songs were to be performed live.
I
drifted off to sleep and fluttered awake again at around two 2:00 am, pulled
from a second Led Zeppelin dream. In the
this dream I and my bandmates we were sitting on a ridiculously tall sofa
watching another band rock away on a distant stage.
Off
to sleep again.
At
3:53 am I rolled awake for the last time.
Implausibly, I had arrived from a third dream of being part of Led
Zeppelin. Details were evasive this
time, but I had been with the band again.
The
afternoon before my Zeppelin dreams, I played their classic Babe, I'm Gonna
Leave You twice in a row on my sound system. On the second go, I cranked the volume up
high enough to rattle my household dust bunnies a bit. Either the song stuck with me or the dust
bunnies tried to get even with me as I slept.
What
might happen if I played Nilsson’s The Lottery Song on repeat?
—Mitchell
Hegman
No comments:
Post a Comment