Have you ever heard a song in a dream? I did, last week. And it had the best sound I’d ever heard. I’ve asked a few people who remember dreams, if they ever remembered hearing music in their dream. I didn’t get anyone who remembered.
Dreamtime. I was a hundred feet or so above a far-spreading ocean panorama as the day neared sunset, and I was riding some sort of combination flying-saucer / jetski. I was on the right side of the craft, and a flight partner was on the left. We held on with some kind of synthetic tether, and flew through the air. It was warm.
Suddenly, music started playing everywhere. It was “Dakota” by the Stereophonics, and the sound surrounded me. I was consciously quizzical about it. I had not consciously identified that this was a dream, but it still seemed very unusual, much more unusual to me than flying a saucer jetski.
I looked over at my flight partner and he smiled and nodded his head, and we turned our nose down toward the ocean. We dove and dove and dove as the music played on, in better sound than Dolby or THX or Dick Burwen ever dreamed of.
Then we hit the water, and our craft continued to dozens of feet beneath the surface. We could breathe, and the water was clear, although dark in the increasingly setting sun. Dolphins sported around us. We were exploring a new world, and the Stereophonics played on the best stereo ever heard.
>> Play “Dakota” by the Stereophonics. (Note: this song is also in my Streampad playlist, but you can play it immediately (and once only for free) with the Lala player here.