Like a lot of other people, I like to hit the snooze button a few times before it actually wins the battle and I get up in the morning. I've noticed that if I lay on my back and relax, I'll often have particularly vivid dreams, sometimes even lucid dreams, in the 10 minute snooze interval between the alarms. I seem to have a pretty good chance of remembering these dreams as well.
I call it Dream Cinema, because it feels like I'm closing my eyes and tuning to a short, random "dream movie"... Sometimes it's even entertaining...
This morning I had a dream that I was in a record store looking for something... And there was a man there doing a survey. So he had me listen to some music on a pair of headphones, and he had some kind of survey pad that looked like a spiral bound notebook with a bunch of tattered lined paper in it. I listened to snippets of several songs, and I recognized one of the vocalists as Lewis Taylor. That's all I remembered from the dream... But when i woke up I was compelled to check out the latest news on this artist (I own several of his albums but haven't listened to his songs in a while).
So the first thing I did after getting out of bed was go to www.lewistaylormusic.com and see if there was any news. I didn't see anything new so I decided to check the forums... And there are several rumors of him "leaving" the music business or retiring... Which i certainly hope aren't true! But then I saw a link to the myspace page for another UK artist by the name of "Robbie Williams" that was covering one of Lewis' tunes. Lovelight. I listened to a couple of the remixes and focused on the lyrics. They described a current situation in my life perfectly.