[Harp-L] Harp Dream (My answers and take)

["Abner Galdos" <cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

good question, and unfortunately my wife thought I was joking until I started playing facing the corner of the room.  I wish we had some kind of recorder.
She explains that my music was "melodic" .  When I first started and did not know anything about how to pucker or draw I would just make noise and listen and did what I liked...She called it "melodic" yet not hitting the single notes cleanly.  This so called sleep waking did what I started just cleaner. I not sure if I'm making any sense..
I can tell you know, that since that night hitting the single notes is now an understanding and muscle learning. also since that night I listen the songs and their beats.
Someone wrote on this site about just that... 
listen. 
now I'm understanding....
I'm still wondering how the neck brace fit in all this..

I have always believed in dreams being a strong part of ones life, its just hard to understand them. 
Dream walking or playing or what ever I did was the first for me. And it showed me a lot.
 
I still have a  long journey in front of me and it will last a life time.

abner (Blueyes, still dreaming the blues)
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  From: EGS1217@xxxxxxx 
  To: John.Balding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: cdgaldos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:32 PM
  Subject: Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Harp Dream (this is as real as it gets) 


  A lot of what you say makes sense, John...the subconscious mind is an amazing thing....but the only factor you might not have figured in is that Abner doesn't play harmonica ...or at least is brand new to the instrument...so in effect, is saying he played 'under the influence' of pain meds while believing he was asleep, in a way he had absolutely no knowledge of in real time.  His wife said he actually did this ...while in effect 'sleepwalking'...So it wasn't a matter of any 'lick' which had been escaping him for months, but something he previously had no knowledge of how to do at all...

  NOW how would you explain this new-found ability? <G>

  ...because I'd sure like some of it. :)

  Elizabeth

  P.S.  I somehow suspect the neck brace in playing a part.  I too was forced to wear one after severely injuring my neck prior to a surgeon  trying to push me into the very same surgery Abner's recovering from.  I'm a much bigger chicken than he is....I half-seriously told my doctor I'd give permission if he could mold my neck into the proper chromatic playing position...(he wasn't amused). I found another much more conservative surgeon and recovered without surgery...but do remember falling asleep wearing the brace at times constricted blood vessels (and breathing) sufficiently enough to cause strange dreams even without the opiates....

  (snipped)

  "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 



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