Do you dream guitars?

[Alnus Rubra]

I was going to post this a couple of weeks ago and decided against it because it seemed a bit crazy.

But I had a vivid dream, I won’t bore you with the details, but the the crux of the matter was that it contained an NF3. In all it’s glorious details.

There it was on a guitar stand at about waist height! I couldn’t tell you the colour, I was too transfixed by those devilishly enticing pickups!

The bizarre thing is that the next day, a video was loaded up on here with an NF loaded guitar being played live!

It has me GASsing for an NF loaded guitar, mainly because it is something sonically that I don’t have.

So the question is, do you dream guitars?

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Absolutely! Of course some of it is because I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at, thinking about, and playing guitars during my waking hours.

 

[FlameTop]

If I do dream guitars, I dream weird ones.

One common dream is that I'm trying to play a guitar and the neck joint, rather than being fixed, is a hinge! To play the guitar I have to hold the neck back to try and get tension in the strings. Then balance it so the strings don't just bottom out on the frets. Suffice to say, such dreams are very frustrating.

 

[veinbuster]

Yes. In a bunch of ways.

Often it is working out some song idea. I’ll hear some part I hope to remember the next day. From time to time I’ll scribble something on a piece of paper.

Sometimes it is a guitar I would like. For example

Which I had built about 18 months later

 

[bodia]

Sadly, no . I don't think I've ever had a dream with a guitar in it. Maybe that's a sign.....

I keep,dreaming weird dreams that include people I used to work with.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Sadly, no . I don't think I've ever had a dream with a guitar in it. Maybe that's a sign.....

I keep,dreaming weird dreams that include people I used to work with.

More cheese before bed!

 

[bodia]

More cheese before bed!

I'm thinking maybe less gin!

 

[CandidPicker]

Not so much about guitars, but hearing incredibly beautiful song melodies while sleeping and waking up in hopes of humming them into my phone voice memo for later reference...only dumbo part is ever try humming a song while you've got voice lock from sleeping several hours...?

 

[Warmart]

A week ago I visited my first real PRS dealer, Righteous Guitars on the north side of Atlanta. Hundreds of PRS, 10 tops, WL's and even PS. I was woefully prepared and I'm not at all new to ogling guitars, . But this store was just mind boggling, nothing like any store I've ever seen. As mentioned, this was the 1st time I saw a Core PRS in person other than maybe Guitar Center.

Needless to say, I dreamt non-stop that night. PRS PRS PRS guitars all night long. And I didn't do more than talk to the awesome staff and hold a couple. I was too in awe to even play one. Now figuring out which model will be my first and when I'm pulling the trigger.

 

[László]

“Dr. Freud, as the author of Die Traumdeutung, how do you interpret these guitar dreams?”

“The correct way of approaching the interpretation of these dreams is to ask, what do these dreams have to do with the Oedipus Complex? The answer is simple. Examine a guitar. You have a shaft, and you have a curvy body. In the most primitive terms, ask yourself what the image of a shaft going into a curvy body represents.”

“Well, I’m not sure, Doctor Freud.”

“Then you’re either repressed or stupid. Lie down on the couch and let’s talk about your early childhood and your relationship with your mother. Ja, so what was mutti like?”

 

[Alnus Rubra]

“Dr. Freud, as the author of Die Traumdeutung, how do you interpret these guitar dreams?”

“The correct way of approaching the interpretation of these dreams is to ask, what do these dreams have to do with the Oedipus Complex? The answer is simple. Examine a guitar. You have a shaft, and you have a curvy body. In the most primitive terms, ask yourself what the image of a shaft going into a curvy body represents.”

“Well, I’m not sure, Doctor Freud.”

“Then you’re either repressed or stupid. Lie down on the couch and let’s talk about your early childhood and your relationship with your mother. Ja, so what was mutti like?”

What are the pickups?!

 

[merciful-evans]

Dream music all the time. Especially anything I'm working on. So a guitar sometimes shows up, but its only in a supporting role.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I didn’t wanna tell anybody about but, a couple months back I had at least two very vivid dreams about Les Paul’s.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I didn’t wanna tell anybody about but, a couple months back I had at least two very vivid dreams about Les Paul’s.

It’s ok buddy, this is a safe place!

After all you’ve been incredibly patient with me!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

It’s ok buddy, this is a safe place!

After all you’ve been incredibly patient with me!

Yeah, but I started looking at them on Reverb for a couple of days because of the dreams.

 

[veinbuster]

Yeah, but I started looking at them on Reverb for a couple of days because of the dreams.

Ooo....scary.
I hope you’re over it.

 

[László]

Yeah, but I started looking at them on Reverb for a couple of days because of the dreams.

I hope you’re over the infection now.

Edit - Uh-oh, veinbuster beat me to it while I was typing!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Ooo....scary.
I hope you’re over it.

I hope you’re over the infection now!

I think I’m in the clear.

I suffer from terrible nightmares and have done some reading about them. One school of thought, and it’s something I prefer to believe, is that dreams are kinda like the mind’s trash bin on your computer. So once you start dreaming about something, it means that you’re already over whatever the dream was about, and it’s ready for deletion.

 

[HANGAR18]

Dammit! There you go. I read this thread last night, then thought to myself that I would now be a lot more likely to have a dream which included PRS guitars in it.
(This is because it is my personal belief that dreams are made up exclusively of stuff that happens to you when you are awake but then it all gets melted together into the most weird, distorted and bizarre ways and then comes back to you in your dreams. Not trying to convince anyone of this, that's just WHY I thought what I did.)

So then sure enough, last night my PRS guitar collection made an appearance in a dream last night.
I was in an extremely ritzy office building, working as an IT Department guy (as usual) and I was using a hand held tablet to show photos of my PRS guitars to a female co-worker of mine from 40 years ago. Hadn't thought about that person in 40 years, long before the days of personal cell phones and computers, and out of the blue, there she was, working in the office I was in, looking exactly like what she looked like 40 years ago. Weird.

But not as weird as what started happening to me after I completed my movie film directors course. Then I'd started having alternate endings to my dream in the middle of my dream and started steering the dreams in different directions to see which ending I liked better. Super weird.

But wait, there's more.... There was an old song by Heart where the song sings that in "these dreams" you feet never touch the Earth and then someone else I crossed paths stated the same thing, so then guess what happened? Dreamed the next night that I was staring at my shoes in the dream and making sure that they were making contact with the ground. I'm a mess.

 

[Huggy Love]

No, I just play them.

But I do have a recurring dream,...... ....... since 1972.

Every time I eat spicy food I dream I'm on an island stranded with a bunch of people, no way to get home, having to fend for ourselves in the elements, hunting and gathering to survive. It all goes well until I go all "Lord of the Flies" on them...

..... and wipe them all out so I can have the women all to myself.