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I swear I'm not crazy but i had this weird dream last night.
It was a recital and everything looked normal in the dream until I saw the recital program. My name was next to a piece I definately wasn't ready to play. It turned out I had been practicing the wrong piece for the recital. I panicked and I started to look for the music for the piece I was supposed to play at the recital and then I realized I didn't have the music with me. This was about 30 minutes before I was to play. Then i tried to play the piece from memory but that didnt work either.
Good thing I woke up before it was my turn to play.
Does anyone else have piano nightmares?

LOL! Great dream, Aduke. Wonderful variation on the "show up for a final exam having studied the wrong material" nightmare.

Most of my piano dreams have been good, but I did have one bad dream that a piano figured in. I dreamed I was taking the MCATs (my stepdaughter has been studying for them lately, which is why I had this dream, I guess). And in my dream, part of the MCAT required playing a piano solo in front of the examiner. I sat down to play "Comptine d'un Autre Ete", which I know backwards and forwards, but in my dream I kept messing up in the first bar and couldn't play the piece at all. I left the examination room convinced I had failed the MCAT.

We have lost another physician piano player...:lol:

guess that you've been too thinking and playing piano so much that you'd have a 'dream' recital... it was good though you woke up, otherwise, you'd be ponding the piano like a mad man... it's so funny!

I've never had a piano dream. I feel left out although if it's a nightmare dream then I feel fortunate


hmmm let me analyze you guys.

ok first of all monica. you're afraid for your daughter although you try not to show or think about it, but subconciously you're on pins and needles. However you don't want your daughter to fail so the fear of failure transposes on to you through your piano.

aduke, you're over anxious about something. afraid you might fall short on something related to life but yet again it manisfests itself through the piano, or you are going to attend a recital and you are starting to exhibit a bit of anxiety through your dreams.

either that or both of you had really big burrito dinners before going to bed.


ps i'm joking about the whole thing. just having a little fun due to my next piano teacher audition jitters in a couple hours.

Good analysis, loly. I think you may be right. My stepdaughter has her heart set on staying in Lexington (not because of us; there's a gentleman friend involved ), and it makes me nervous to have her apply to only one school.

Aduke, at least you got in some practice;) and glad you woke up:)

my constant piano nightmare that i have yet to dissolve is this, my apartment foundation is always caving in, literally, in my dreams. the last dream the main foundation got soaked and this time the manager hired people to fix it, but always in these dreams where everything is caving in me and my husband move my grand piano to a safe place till the work can be done:) of course i woke up the next morning and our sockets were burned--for real!!! my dreams always coincide with problems in the apartment. weird eh? and all the problems are always around where my piano is. thats the only nightmares i have, a falling apart apartment and me and hubby saving the piano.

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aduke, you're over anxious about something. afraid you might fall short on something related to life but yet again it manisfests itself through the piano, or you are going to attend a recital and you are starting to exhibit a bit of anxiety through your dreams.]

Ok so I had a recital about a week ago and the first piece didnt go so well, so maybe subconsiously I'm still thinking about that.. I have no recitals coming up but I think I spent way too much time at the piano yesterday.
A burrito sounds pretty good right now actually

This thread reminds me of a Gary Larson cartoon titled "Nightmares of an elephant". You see a clumsy elephant sitting on a piano bench, staring helplessly at the keys, on stage, in front of a huge audience. And he is thinking: "What am I doing here???? I'm a flutist ..."

LOL, mine is that I'm in the audience of a theatre, waiting for a musical to start, talking with people and socializing. Then the lights dim and all of a sudden I realize I'm supposed to be in the pit accompanying BUT I haven't practiced and I'm dressed in rags and somehow I have to walk across the stage to get to where the piano is.

I have that one, or some variation of it, every so often...



Elaine

I've got that cartoon pinned to a bulletin board in our house.

I've had performance anxiety dreams many times (always related to the cello, though). Typical is one in which I'm on stage, playing, and I don't know the piece and don't have the music in front of me, or else I'm performing and wearing my nightgown or underwear (and believe me, I don't have Madonna's body).

It's the waking up to reality that I worry about. Piano for me is a waking dream...one of those where you're overwhelmed by emotions and knew you were asleep but hoped you'd never have to wake...especially to how ugly and petty the world's become..everything about this experience is sublime, how could anyone have nightmares about the sublime!

Aduke, everything you described in your nightmare has actually happened to me (at different times).

Oh well, I survived.

For me the piano is a way to get away from all of the stressful things in my life. I guess the only piano nightmare I could have would be if pianos disappeared. Then I guess I would get back to the guitar.

My favorite piano nightmare is the one where the keys start stretching and contracting, rolling and changing places all during the course of a single piece.