by Craig Sim Webb (Author)
New 2025 Edition with Major Enhancements and More Artists:
Discover the fascinating dreams that are behind the music we know including sleep-harvested inspirations that led to dozens of Grammy wins, the dream-inspired artist with 50+ billion streams, iTunes' most-purchased song, major artist career callings and breakthroughs, and many more dream-sparked successes.
You can also learn how to recall dreams better and tap them for creative inspiration (e.g. songwriting), improving skills such as live performance or musical instrument mastery, and even for practical guidance to help solve any challenge you may ever face. Understand your dreams better, transform upsetting dreams into the gifts they are meant to be, and explore techniques for invoking lucid dreams in which amazing adventures and insights are plentiful.
Over 200 artists and industry executives across all genres of music share powerful dreams and lucid dreaming experiences along with the songs and surprising success that resulted. Enjoy insight-packed dream accounts by music icons Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Billy Joel, Sting, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Drake, U2, Teddy Swims, Blake Shelton, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Diana Ross, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Black-Eyed Peas, Joni Mitchell, Ziggy Marley, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger, Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Mozart, Richard Wagner, and far more. Many of the experiences are accompanied by the empowering dream principles that such events demonstrate so that you can understand, apply, and benefit from them in your own life.
The book also reveals surprising musical collaborations sparked by dreams, dream visions that called artists to their career path, stars who 'see' music or 'hear' images, powerful warning dreams where the lives of famous artists and others were at stake, over 20 intriguing cases where the deceased appeared in dreams of living artists to instruct them or offer important creative and career guidance, as well as ways shamans from many cultures worldwide call in music from dreamland and share it for healing, teaching, protection, and powerful rituals. You will also find out how dreams have inspired film, TV and computer game soundtracks, artist and band names, instrument inventions, business and career decisions, playing techniques, and even performances, including one of the most expensive composition performance pieces ever created which involves 4 helicopters in flight.
www.DreamsBehindTheMusic.com "Any artist who ignores their dreams is ignoring half of their creative potential." -
Sting "When you're dozing, that's when the creative ideas come." -
folk music legend Pete Seeger "You must learn the way to follow the dream." -fifteen-time nominated and four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter
Joseph Shabalala "When a really great dream shows up, grab it!" -
Larry Page, CEO of Google (a company sparked into being by a dream)
Number of Pages: 310
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: September 09, 2016
