Truth being said, I am a dreamer. I have always been fascinated with dreams. Since I was a kid, which includes nightmares as well.
Dreams are a big part of me and my life. For me, they have meaning and to be completely honest the meaning of my life revolves around dreams. My first memory of a significant dream comes very early around 7 years old. It was actually a nightmare which I embraced in a life time journey of trying to understand the nightmare.
The understanding of that nightmare came because of a dream that I had at 24 and it came to reality at 36. Yes, I literally caught a dream. That dream that I had at 24 became reality at 36 with all the details. Pretty freaky. I tell the journey in details in my autobiography, Punkaste.
Now, what I didn’t tell in the book since it was written in 2020, was that in 2020 I had a dream with Lemmy Kilmister. On that dream, Lemmy talked to me. I was afraid of learning music and doing covers, and he simply told me: Rock it, ain’t no crime. That got me to start my musical projact.
Fast forward to 2024, most precisely last night, I had a dream Dave Ghrol from Foo Fighters. Now, this is totally epic, especially if you read the last blog post in this blog. The dream was totally epic, I was in my son school and Dave was there. I told him that I have a punk band, and I gave him a cd. For my surprise he opened and put it to play, on the spot, then he looked to me and said: “I like it” and then completed looking me in the eyes: “It is totally ok to have a career in music” and then I woke up. Smiling of course. Magical epic dream made me smile.
The curious part of all is that, back in 2020 a Foo Fighter song, which I played live with School of Rock, is what lead me to the idea of a punk band with punk rock songs for kids. The song Monkey wrench says, “wasting another night planning my revenge” it is exactly what I did. Since 2020 I spend my nights learning how to play, learning how to record, learning how to mix and making songs. Which all that is my revenge against religious childhood trauma, but also a hobby.
Today I had a meetup, a professional meetup, a misfit professional meetup. Meaning, a meetup meant for professional like me, out side of the box that do not wear a tie. For the first time I presented my project for people in real life outside the internet. The project was received with a good amount of positivity. Someone even said I am very talented. I guess, it was I did not waste my nights, and I think Dave Ghrols is right, it is time to make it a career. At least give it a shot with a leap of faith. Faith in my dreams!
What can I say, dream on my friends!
Punkaste,
Richard
Ps: Picture taken today before the meeting while recording my Xmas musical.
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