The Elusive Song – Piano Dreaming
I dreamed about playing the piano last night. A few months ago I bought this beautiful upright piano. It sits in pride of place in my bedroom, away from the unpredictable dangers of two young children and their pets that roam the rest of the house. Last night, I dreamed about that piano and playing it.
Despite having a musical upbringing and a couple of formative years learning to play the organ I don’t feel confident at my piano playing skills. They’re rudimentary and I don’t know if I do things correctly. A piano is surprisingly different to an organ. Do I use the right pressure on the keys?
In my dream I was attempting to play the song that I am learning in real life. The trouble is, I flipped through sheets and sheets of sheet music. A multitude of songs that I couldn’t play but wanted to learn. Flip, flip, but the music for the particular song I wanted to play couldn’t be found amongst them.
I sat at the keys from time to time and attempted to play the song from memory. I could play, with err-filled disharmony, the first few bars but the harder I tried to remember how the song continued the more errors I made.
After every other failed attempt to remember the song I stood and flipped through the sheet music which, by now, was covering a large portion of the piano in scattered, strewn piles. Still, no matter how often I sorted through those pages I could not find the sheet music and no matter how long I tried to remember how to play it I could not get the song arranged on the keys.
I wonder what meaning this dream has, if any at all. I’m the kind of sleeper who rarely remembers her dreams. I’ve frequently wondered if I dream much at all because I tend to sleep solid and soundly. I wake refreshed but dreamless.
Why would my subconscious mind choose to keep this dream into wakefullness? Do you think dreams have deeper meanings or messages? What could this dream be trying to tell me?