rhiannon

so as i said in my recent entry i’ve been really tired. last night i was listening to some shows on blogtalkradio.com and i fell asleep after one of them for about 3-4 hours. i was up all morning until about 11am after i ate breakfast. i was so tired that i crashed until 5pm.

but i had a fascinating dream in between that time. although strange to me in some aspects, but it’s all connected i suppose. if you are not aware of mythological times (and i’m not exactly a pro in this department either) there was a mythological queen named rhiannon (wiki) and stevie nicks (who was in fleetwood mac) wrote a song about her. i’ll post a youtube at the bottom of the song.

So in the dream i was in band class – in high school (this was over 5 years ago when i was in high school) – and i want to say it was my sophomore or junior year because there were some people in particular that i remembered in class that year (that i didn’t particularly like and they happened to be sitting behind me). the band director was handing out sheet music to a song that didn’t have a title. i remember looking at it being very confused wondering what the heck it was that we were going to be playing. one thing i do remember specifically is that i was holding the sheet music while this song was being played, i didn’t have my instrument with me (i played alto sax in band)

i looked back over to the percussion section and there were no percussion snares or bass drums there – but there was instead a very large drum set and the band director went to the back to play them. all of a sudden everyone started to play rhiannon. and the fascinating thing about this was that it didn’t sound like a full on band sound. that may be hard to explain. when i hear a song interpreted by a high school band, i expect to hear all the instruments involved. i was sitting in front of a bunch of trumpet players but i didn’t hear any trumpets in the song. i did hear a lot of flute though and some clarinet and of course the sax since i was in that section. it was just very unnatural yet lovely sounding.

another facet in this dream was someone was singing the song – but when i looked around i could not find the person that was actually singing the song. it was a very soft velvety voice (similar to stevie’s actually but i can tell it was definitely not her)…it was just very beautiful voice.

before the song started though – i exchanged some heated words with a girl that really was in my class in real life and she was sort of the stuck up im better than everyone person…

…and she played trumpet — but i couldn’t hear her. hmm…strange.

i also remember during the middle of the song there was a very cool breeze that i felt on my face – and i also remember after then closing my eyes during the rest of the song – like i was tranced in.

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so i know this dream was all over the place – but there were a lot of things happening. that song by stevie happens to be my favorite song of hers, and that connected with my love for music and that i was in band during my middle/high school days, i kinda felt like the song was playing for me – despite the brat sitting behind me.

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miscellaneous things – a picture of rhiannon i found from google.

and the youtube video of the song (there are two videos – one is from the album – one is another song that is related to rhiannon)

stevie is actually right now working on some sort of a rhiannon project – whether it be new music or a tv series – but she wrote some songs back in the day for the project – this one is my favorite of hers (this was never released)