Tell Him He's Dreaming.

Have you ever been asleep and smiled or laughed because you felt genuine happiness, elation. (and no i'm not talking about a dirty dream).
I have had this very comforting feeling a few times in my life. one of the 1st I can remember was when I was about 5 and I dreamt that my primary school was in danger and I saved this girl I had a crush on, (i harnessed my lady killer skills young), by flying her away from school in my cape etc. (undies over a spandex jumpsuit with a cape beats the bronte public primary school uniform. well it seemed that way then). Some have been when I have heard a song on my bedside radio. They are usually very random songs that somehow relate with a happy part of my memory.

A few songs that have triggered this sleep - euphoria;
Richard Marx : "Right Here Waiting" (yeah i just said that)
Paula Abdul & MC Skat Kat : "Opposites Attract"
Starship : "We Built This City"
Talk Talk : "It's My Life"
Icehouse : "Great Southern Land"
Friendly Fires : "Skeleton Boy"
(most all of that list i should keep to myself but this is a form of therapy after all)

...Where was I?...Oh yes...Divulging intimate details to the world.....

I have also dreamt that someone told me something or I saw something funny and I laughed in my dream, in turn I laughed and woke myself up.

Anyway my point is "Skeleton Boy" by the Friendly fires played quietly while I slept as my i - pod dock worked through the shuffled songs and I vividly saw myself playing drums to it.
This may sound super corny you might picture a poser saying they can play the drums and dream about pretending to play in a band.
Whoa! That was malicious.
Well I am annoyed with damn good reason.
I learned to play drums when I was 10, I went up to 4th grade in rock drumming and 3rd grade in classical drumming in the guild hall syllabus of music while at school in England and since then throughout my life I have always had it with me as a skill, I even played drums in the high school cadet pipe band for a year. (it was a scottish school, pipe band and kilts etc.)

Regardless I had this amazing dream the other night and I saw me playing drums to this song, I could feel the beat in every fiber of my body, I knew exactly how to play it and I could do it if I wasn't this way.
I still play but because my co - ordination is affected it sounds like a chicken running across hot tin roof.
I'm used to hopping behind a drum kit and creating a good sound just like some people find walking or riding a bike simple.

I woke up the next day and HAD to hear the song, part of me is bitter that I can't do some things like I used to but at least in my subconscious I am still the healthy young man that I only Know myself as. Fair enough is my physical body doesn't connect the dots like it should but I at least there are still places in my mind i can visit occasionally where all is well.


Everything starts with a dream.