Dream Melodies

 

ADDENDUM to The Moment of Before

In one of this morning’s dreams, I was sitting with my family enjoying a concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater Florida. On stage was a glockenspiel, a musician playing an interesting melody on it, and our seats. We were that close. The music did not last for more than a few bars because I awoke from the dream with a start, banging my hand into the bed frame. As in The Moment of Before, it took me a moment to reconcile multiple realities with my identity.

“What was that? Where am I? Ah, yes. Bed. Dream. Self. Home. Sunrise. Family – rapidly, pretty much in that order.

I was suddenly awake and the music had stopped the instant my left hand contacted the 2×6 pine board of my bed frame, before the “Moment of Before” rec·on·cil·i·a·tion process had even begun.

QUESTIONS

Who mans the projector playing the images of our dreams? Why did the music stop so instantly? Who controls the switch? Are the only two settings, [ Dream | Real ]? Why can there be multiple seats my dream’s theater, but one-and-only-one viewer in the theater of my mind? Who occupies That “seat” for which the dreams are played? Why did the music stop? My mind sought fit to record the content of this dream in conscious memory, and although I do not recall the melody being played this time, I have had other dreams with musical melodies that I continued to hum after awaking. Who truly deserves credit for composing such music?