Re: [Harp-L] Harp Dream (this is as real as it gets)

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

There are two sides to the brain - right and left. One side is intuitive,  th
e other is rational. Rational side holds the voice that talks to you in your  
head - your ego voice - telling you what you can and can't do, telling you to  
watch out, you may screw up, telling you that others are judging you, etc. 
This  stuff is garbage chatter and gets in the way of flow. 
 
When one is sick (temperature of 101 or higher), drunk, or "altered",  
sometimes the rational side of the brain just shuts down, opening the floodgates  of 
the intuitive side - where creativity and music live - allowing it to flow  
w/out censorship. 
 
I believe this is what Abner experienced. I've experienced it. Others have,  
too.
 
Along with learning to play music, one should understand and begin to quiet  
down the judgmental voice that keeps up that incessant chatter in one's head - 
 it helps with the music.
 
 
In a message dated 2/27/2009 8:47:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
John.Balding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

What a  great story!

I firmly believe that the subconscious mind continues to  work on
"problems" long after the conscious mind has stopped "thinking"  about
them. This is the basic principle in the old book Think and Grow  Rich.
For example: Have you ever gone to sleep at night trying to  remember
someone's name or the name of a song, only to wake up the next  morning
and blurt out the name almost instantly? While you were sleeping,  your
subconscious mind continued to rummage through the file cabinet of  your
brain until it found what you were looking for.

I have always  felt that this is true with my harmonica playing as well.
For example: I  will play along with a CD of one of my heroes, trying in
vain to get a  particular riff. No matter how hard I try and how many
times I try, I just  can't get it. A week or two later, I put on the same
CD and tag the riff  the first time through, as if I had been playing it
for years. My mind  continued to work on the problem. My mouth "knows"
where the notes are. My  mind knows which notes I need and the techniques
needed to get them. The  problem is in getting my mind and my muscles to
cooperate simultaneously.  During the absence from playing, my mind
continued to develop a system by  which it would communicate to my mouth
in the most efficient way. Of  course, it doesn't just happen because you
want it to. Without putting in  the practice time, your body's systems
have no basis or foundation from  which to build a plan of attack. If you
cut the road bed, your mind will  add the pavement, so to speak.

I know that this sounds like voodoo  mumbo-jumbo, but I really believe
that it happens. I think that this is  what happened in Abner's dream.
His mind clicked and he began playing all  of those tunes he had been
working on, but never quite figured out while he  was awake. I bet if he
had a recording of it, he would have said: "I've  been trying to get that
lick for months!"

John  Balding
Tallahassee, FL 

-----Original Message-----
From: Abner  Galdos
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:25 PM

One night I had the  strangest dream.
I dreamt I was in a dark room and I could not see.. I was  feeling around
with my hand and found a Harmonica so I started playing I  mean really
playing, sounding great. the tone everything was coming  together..
the next morning I told my wife about this strange  dream...
ding, ding, ding  for the one that got the  ending...

My wife said it was not a dream.
She told me seconds after  I went to bed I was waking around like a blind
man felling the walls picked  up a harp and I started playing ,  she
asked me if I was playing a "C"  harp and I told her there is not such
thing.  WE all know that  the  "C" harp is like the main harp most of the
teaching books  prefer.  Then I went to bed laid on her chest and I was
playing for  half and hour.....
I asked for if she thought this was strange she agreed  but see did not
know what to do....
so I asked her how did I  sound...
She said I was good, real good...
my wife loves me but she wont  lie to me, she knows music and sings very
well... 
we still talk about  that night and other strange things.  Since they
don't deal with the  harp  I will leave these stories out.
Something I had to share with  you guys.....

so my trick is to start recording while I'm sleeping and  make it big as
the first sleeping blues player...
abner (Blueyes,  48 year old freashman to the  blues)

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