The the subconscious mind sometimes used dreams to process complex emotions and daily experiences in symbolic form. Often I wake up from dreams tired and emotionally drained. Yesterday, I didn't feel well. I have a genetic heart condition so sometimes I get extremely tired for no apparent reason. I was tired all day, the political news for the past 6 weeks has been draining, so my last thought before I went to sleep was that I wanted to have a restful night without having one of my crazy dreams that sometimes leave me feeling wiped out in the morning. Great news! I woke up this morning after having a dream about Willie Nelson. We were in the recording studio laughing so hard at the song he was recording. I was literally laughing out loud when I woke up. It was like a combination of being with Willie at the Pedernales Recording Studio in Spicewood in the 80's when I worked there and being on the movie set with Timothée Chalamet filming the Bob Dylan movie "A Complete Unknown." I was totally in my element and Willie's song had several layers of messages just like the Kendrick Lamar half time show at the Super Bowl.
The music executives were at the recording studio with their suits on, looking down on the the rest of us at the studio who were dressed very casual. The recording engineer said take 2 and Willie went totally off the rails and started singing the song "You Can Write Your Own Songs." Everyone except the record executives were cracking up laughing. It was with the same playfulness that Timothée had in the scene in "A Complete Unknown" when he started the song "Highway 61 Revisited" with a siren whistle.
So my subconscious mind just threw together all the thoughts I had been having of the Kendrick Lamar's awesome multi-layerd protest half time show, Timothée Chalamet's amazing performance in "A Complete Unknown," and the horrible meeting that President Zelenskyy had in the Oval Office when he was asked why he wasn't wearing a suit to the White House. My mind came up with Willie singing "You Can Write Your Own Songs" in the studio to the jerks who didn't like the way he was dressed.
This song was released in 1982. I had a 4 year old daughter and a 2 year old son and was getting divorced. The fact that this particular song would pop up in my subconscious is nothing short of a miracle. Thank you again Willie, for always being there with just the right words of wisdom. You never cease to amaze me.
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