I am endowed with a vivid & often dramatic dream life. A very long time ago, I attended a How To Remember & Record Your Dreams workshop, but I am not sure why I tend to remember my dreams. I once woke up & said to the Husband- “Wow, I just had a really zany dream I was wandering around this house where a party was in full swing. Billy Idol seemed to have been the guest of honor or the focus of the event. I walked past Mr. Idol in this small passage way, & he grabbed me & said- ‘ohhh Steve’, & kissed me, a long, drawn out tongue down my throat kiss!” The Husband said- “Shut up, I was sleeping, & by the way, lucky you. I was dreaming about stacking rugs (he works for a high end home furnishing store & is in charge of displaying a large selection of imported rugs). I always dream the most mundane things & you get to dream of having sex with movie stars. It is not fair!”
I often dream songs/music. It is difficult to describe. I hear the music, but I am also inside the music. It seems to be like a music video. Some of my music dreams are a bit detached…but lucky me, I am often performing in them, & of course I am just amazingly talented & charismatic in my dreams. I always wake up from these feeling blissful.
Last night I dreamed- Sugar Walls, a song I cared nothing about when it was released in 1984. The Sheena Easton hit was penned just for her by Prince. Sugar Walls’ video was one of the 1st to be banned for the lyrics rather than its imagery. Some broadcasters refused to air the tune. Sugar Walls was also named by Tipper Gore as one of the Filthy 15- a list of songs deemed indecent because of their lyrics, alongside Prince's own Darling Nikki. I am sure this contributed to the song's popularity .It eventually reached hit #3 on the R&B singles chart & #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Before achieving solo success, singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby played in Easton's band in 1983 & 1984 and appeared in the video of Sugar Walls.
In my dream, I was singing & dancing this song to an audience in a Victorian Music Hall. The audience was in full preiod dress, & althoug I was lit with gas foot lights, I was in full New Wave garb with a Flock Of Seagulls haircut (which I actually had in the early 1980s).
Questions:
1. Why would I dream a song that I had only a passing interest in when it was released?
2. Why was the dream a mix of Victorian & 1980s in its setting?
3. Why didn’t a dream Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, a song that I loved in 1984… & why wasn’t I making out with George Michael in my midnight reverie?
4. What is exactly is a Sugar Wall?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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An intresting post Stephen but after drinking some wines I can't begin to ask all these questions. My little ole mind is spinning!!! I do have some wierd dreams also. Some very strange sex one too! Or I also have alot of party dreams where there are famous people.
ReplyDeleteI have wierdo dreams, too, so i just love this. First, dreams are not rational, so it doesn't matter that you didn't like this song. The real question you should ask is, why didn't you like it? What does it remind you of? For some reason, it stuck in your subconscious.
ReplyDeleteFor my armchair interpretation, it seems that since you were singing this very provocative, controversial song on stage, it may be there's something that you need to express. And since you were dressed as you might have when you were younger, maybe this symbolizes something you felt when you were younger but is only now able to be expressed. But you have the confidence now of a young man.
The Victorian audience and atmosphere may, however, represent a situation in which you feel your expression will not be well received. Your "audience" or "stage" may not be quite ready for what you have to say.
You didn't dream about "Wake Me Up" with Miss Michael because, honey, we'll ALL been there and done that!
And seriously, I shouldn't have to tell you this, but "sugar walls" means vagina! Go read the lyrics.
In closing: You really have a vagina and are ready to show it to the world! Congratulations.
Yet another thing we have in common. My drams are very vivid and often frightening. I long ago learned to keep a dream journal on my nightstand to record the best ones, many of which have served as the basis for a screenplay (or at least get incorporated into one). In fact, I dreamt an entire musical, once, but it was exceptionally stupid and I didn't write it down. I also talk in my sleep and have been told I will carry on full conversations with someone who is awake, as long as the awake person doesn't try to change the subject. The minute they, I stop talking.
ReplyDeleteI am always conscious of dreaming. When they are good, I think to myself, "This is GOOD... I need to remember this when I wake up." When they are really bad or scary, I am able to realize I am dreaming and will stop in the middle of my dream and say, "It's a just a dream WAKE UP!" and I wake up to escape it.
ReplyDeleteI've had Johnny Carson as my choir teacher, I've dreamt an entire musical production that featured fire-breathing pink elephants (very Andrew Lloyd Webber) and Better Midler and I have picnicked. I've also woken up from falling off a cliff, being chased by gangsters and being crushed by a giant rock.
As for Sugar Walls, I like to think they are what you build a gingerbread house out of.
I generally dream about family and friends (unfortunately) but they always take place in the church my family went to as a child -bizarro, no? I mean -ALWAYS!
ReplyDeleteAlthough - once I did have a sex dream about Katie Couric. Now THAT was weird.
Damn, not only is your real life better thank mine, so is your dream life!
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