Paul
McCartney’s Yesterday.
Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins.
Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones.
What do
they have in common besides being awesome jams?
They were
all inspired by dreams.
And lucky
for the rest of us, these artists got their butts out of bed and wrote or
recorded bits that would help them remember their insights in the morning. In
fact, they say that the recording of Keith Richards chanting, “I can’t get no
satisfaction” and doing a verbal of that famous guitar riff finishes off with a
grand finale of loud snoring.
In the book
department, dreams have helped create E.B. White’s Stuart Little and Jonathan
Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
And by the
way, there’s no need to fret another nightmare.
Think Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein,
The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson,
and Stephen
King’s Misery.
So, to
quote those wise words of screechy Steven Tyler –
Dream on
Dream on
Dream on
Yeah, and
sometimes you just have to see it live to appreciate it.
PROMPT: Always keep a dream catcher
(notebook and pen or digital device) next to your bed. You never know when that
late-night chimichanga or quart of Ben & Jerry’s is going to inspire your
next best-seller.
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