Dragging my Mind Over the Gap Between Is's

Thursday, June 23rd

I. “Everybody Likes to Say Good Morning”

This dream doesn’t make very much sense. Here’s what was notable about it – it was a musical, directed by filmmaker David Lynch (therefore having many surreal and really creepy yet humorous qualities) complete with a song that I’d never heard before with lyrics and all, meaning that another unconscious composition was put into my head. I remember a bit more about this one than last night.

The melody and style of it I can compare only with that song “I’m Getting Married in the Mornin’” and the “Every Sperm is Sacred” song from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. The costumes and dancing were actually a lot like the Python song now that I think about it. I also remember 3 lines of the lyrics, however none of them consecutive so there’s not any cohesion. The first line of the song was “Everybody likes to say good morning!” There was a call-and-answer part that was sung by one man and a group of women. I don’t remember what the man says, but I will make something up now that would work – it would have been the same rhythm and syllables as “The hair is all the rage now” and the women, I remember this specifically, answered with the rhyming line “Joined in fancy braids now!” There were two different endings to the stanzas. The one that happened most of the times I don’t remember all of but the last two words were “On parade.”

The other, which at the end of the song I was supposed to sing in David Lynch’s face in order to startle him awake (?) was “It’s all the same!” Someone cut me off and finished the song as I was about to do this though.

One big reason I became interested in lucid dreaming was to write and practice music in my sleep – I’d heard quite a bit about different bands doing that.