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steepholmI've been having very vivid dreams recently, and while nothing could be more boring to relate to others, last night's was unsettling enough and I woke from it suddenly enough for me to want to record the end of it. The earlier parts involved missing children, dark woods and severed limbs, so let's not go there, but it ended far more spookily, with a chorus of ghostly infants singing me this eldritch music. I don't recognize the tune, but could well have dredged it up from somewhere - any ideas? I've always disliked 3/4 time for some reason, and I think my id knows this and chose to twit me with it. As for the lyrics, all I remember is the penultimate line: "And you'll be sorry you knew that dreams come true."
And with that I started awake.
And with that I started awake.
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Date: 2011-10-08 01:06 pm (UTC)Are the images from your dreams clear enough to draw/paint?
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Date: 2011-10-08 01:21 pm (UTC)The images are vivid, but alas I can't draw well at all.
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Date: 2011-10-08 01:31 pm (UTC)I think that I can remember dream images, but when I try to look at them, they're more like feelings than visuals. I can't see how I'd begin to capture them with my imaginary skills.
It's a bit like my memory of my grandmother - that feels vivid and yet I can't actually picture her face. I remember smells, a few dresses, things she did, and mostly the way I felt about her.
Words and phrases do follow me out of dreams though.
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Date: 2011-10-08 01:38 pm (UTC)But yes, I know what you mean about the visual not being the strongest element of these things. The emotional content can't be conveyed straightforwardly at all, though - I think you'd need to change other things in order to get it across in a narrative. Words can't take the same shortcuts that dreams and memories can.
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Date: 2011-10-08 04:51 pm (UTC)Listen again to the first few notes.
Date: 2011-10-08 03:41 pm (UTC)Re: Listen again to the first few notes.
Date: 2011-10-08 04:34 pm (UTC)In fact...
Date: 2011-10-08 06:45 pm (UTC)Bugger. This is bound to keep me awake all night.
Estampie, eh?
Date: 2011-10-08 07:42 pm (UTC)Speaking of Gryphon, it was Richard Harvey as much as David Munrow who inspired me to keep up with the recorder (hence its being within reach of my pillow), not least with his rendition of Kemp's Jig from the same album, the last two verses of which set a standard I could chase only limpingly as he piped into the mountains.
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Date: 2011-10-08 05:16 pm (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2011-10-08 05:55 pm (UTC)Like others, I'm very much impressed that you can recall a dream tune long enough for recording it! And that dream sounds horrible all through.
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Date: 2011-10-08 06:42 pm (UTC)You are evidently destined to write the next great creepy opera with children, because that melody is awesome. It sounds almost like something I know, but not enough for me to identify it.
(Seriously, do something with it. It's haunting.)
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Date: 2011-10-08 07:43 pm (UTC)