Dreams about marching band

Newell Post

Why have I kept having dreams about marching band for the past month? I haven't played in a real marching band in 40 years. Sometimes it is the usual dream kinds of things where the sheet music in the lyre is for the wrong show or the horn has no mouthpiece. Other times everything is perfectly normal. Weird. I don't get it.

OldSchoolEuph

Freud 101 I suspect....

That was a time in life when the big things were planned for you, when you could have confidence that, though not under your control, your life path was not just safely set, but on course. The daily global experience of the last year has been in stark contrast to that for everyone, where major elements of one's future are again outside of one's control, but this time heading in very negative directions. The one year anniversary of the waking nightmare turns subconscious thought to times free of that dynamic.

Those are the "normal" dreams

Then there is the wrong music. For others it is being back in junior high and you don't know your schedule or cant find your locker. The world has changed from what we are used to, and it is not clear what the notes to this new song are. Just like trying to wing it by ear when you have the wrong part up, we are all groping in the dark for a path forward in an as-yet unrevealed new modality of socio-cultural norms.

And at times, like having no mouthpiece, we wonder if those depending on us will notice we are faking it.

Dr GO

@newell-post said in Dreams about marching band:

Why have I kept having dreams about marching band for the past month?

Perhaps because it's March?

Newell Post

@dr-go Maybe it was March Fourth (or forth).

Dr GO

@newell-post said in Dreams about marching band:

@dr-go Maybe it was March Fourth (or forth).

Yes, National Marching Band Directors Day