Create Songs From Empowering Dreams
By Songwriter Sheryl Collins
I said the moment I started subscribing to others songwriters who share valuable information on how to write a song, I will share how I wrote songs before any prior training. The one reason is that if songwriting seen like work than the fun is taken away of the whole craft. If someone had to journal who did not like to journal their day would find it as work. Most of all work they hate. Since writing a hit song is like winning the lottery than songwriting should only be done by those who love it. I love writing songs and I love doing it every day. The one thing I learned through professionals is that an estimate of three songs out of a hundred you will write might get placed. So the possibilities of writing more than one hit song are like hitting the big pot lottery more than once or walking into a casino coming out a millionaire.
A few years ago, I purchase a dream journal. I use to try to keep my dreams written on the pc, but computer goes down. Most of all your valuable information can be lost or thrown to the world out there never know what happen to it. I learned through my journal that dreams inspired so much entertainment we see today. That includes the music we hear on the radio. Once you start journaling songs everytime a line come to you, believe me, it will come in your dreams. I only talk from experience.
Many artists who are legends wake to a perfect creation that we all sing from time to time.
Michael Jackson would wake up from his dreams to jot down words he hears on paper. Paul McCartney of Beatles wrote “Yesterday” in a dream. Sheryl! They are singers/ songwriters! Paul Webster who wrote “ Love Is A Many Splendored Thing” was a songwriter. Richard Wagner dreamed an entire opera called “Tristan und Isolde.” What about a nightmare? Yes, Tartini wrote the Devil Trill from a nightmare that included the devil. He dreamed he pact the devil for the beat.
It might sound frightening, I also experience a more heavenly chorus sung to me after a long rejected letters of my writing regards faith. I also had just that. I used it for a chorus and later I paid a professional to sing it. I will include a link for you to hear it.
https://sherylcollins1974.bandcamp.com/track/believe-if-you
I continue the song. I woke writing two verses to complete a whole lyric sheet. The song was later called Believe. That is one reason no matter how big my giant is, I continue as though they are not there.
Sharing My Story:
After continuing rejections from my writing, I decided to go to my first writing conference here in my local city. I sat among many writers who had their books published. All the writers in this group write only books. I sat out among the rest dabbling in songwriting and screen also. I was desperate to get published. After becoming disabled from my illness, the doctors said I would always be able to write. Most of all no one is stealing your writing, so I should feel free at home. I joined Romance Writer of America as well and took up writer workshops online and also pay a year subscription to Universal Courses taking tons of writing courses that give you CEU’s. Nothing.
I sat by a fourteen-year-old who was published. That night I prayed before I went to bed asking my higher power who is Jesus to tell me to give up. Most of all give me something to do or focus on when I wake up.
In my dream, I got in a white car. The white car drove me but I believed it to be one of my older sisters. Most of all the one that is a minister. The male voice of an angel sung out to me on the ride:
I know that you may have your doubts
You figure there is no way out
If God can raise the red sea?
If the Son of God can make a blind man see?
If the Son of God can make a blind man see?
There is nothing impossible if you Believe.
I woke up with tears in my eyes. I ran to try to jot everything down. I did get at least these words from my dream which I made as a chorus in my religious song " Believe". That was the dream I had in 2014.
Do songs come all the time in a dream? No. We do know that dream journaling can help you learn about yourself and create many other things like novels. Maybe the legends have experienced more than once in a lifetime. Many people have issues on recalling what they dream. So if you are interested in catching some creative songs or some create stories to write songs, dream journaling might be something you might want to add to create.
Here are few things you might want to take to bed with you:
- A Pencil or Pen.
- Journal of your choice.
- Crystals if your into that kind of stuff. Some believe that sleeping with a Lepidolite. It help treats mental health disorders since it contains a natural form of lithium. Also a crown chakra.
- Scent. Yes, some people feel better with certain essential oils circulating their room from the diffuser.
- Invite your higher power to be with you. I sometimes sleep with a rosary or the bible somewhere near. Maybe you're into dream catchers as Native American. Some culture gives their children special dolls like worry doll to sleep with. Your dream time is not limited and it represents you.
- Pray or Meditate.
While I was taking tons of courses for CEU’s that involve some good creative things I decided to try to take interpreting dreams. Well, I found out that was not me. So I decide to find a dream journal and lucky at a book in town, I found “The Dream Experience” by Brenda Mallon that came with a CD. I never got to use the CD since somehow it was broken. I rush to creative chapter.
After my battle within myself about book writing and writing in general, I took inspiration from my dream to continue. Most of all taking my daughter to her high school when she was a teenager was inspiring with a dream I jotted down. “Flower Moon” was written. No, it was never published. A one or two publisher I let seen it past but it not the story. You see Flower Moon has never been rewritten from its rough draft or even edited. While putting a lot of time and money for a rejection I decided to just send it in as raw and rare as it could get. The publishers advise was plenty if ever chosen to pick it up again. I made a cute trailer and now on Wattpad for readers in it’s the first draft. Maybe the fact about Mary Shelley the author is true after all. She only wrote a book about her nightmare and called it Frankenstein.
As a Songwriter, You have Nothing to Lose. If you’re looking at a blank sheet, after a dream you will not be. At least an idea will be there if not a SURPRISE song.
