The "Dreamin' Of You" Story

Foreword

I wrote this story months ago, but never posted it.  Always seemed like I had others that I wanted to share more than this one.  Now, as you may have read in a recent post, or have seen on the news or read about, Phil Everly has died.  Rather than delete this post, I thought I would post it to honor him with a story about one of my all-time favorite songs.

It was an ordinary day.  Listening to the Everly Brothers on my radio at work singing one of my favorites that they ever recorded, "All I have to do is dream", which they released in April of 1958 when I was in my first year of high school.  Song is ranked #142 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.  Pretty impressive!  For many people, dreams are a mysterious lost world that we at times share with others while other times keep hidden in our innermost thoughts.  When I want you ..... as the song goes, all I have to do is dream.  I dream just about every night.  Dreams are said to help your mind store important memories, work through things emotionally and learn how to survive.  Think back on a few of your recent dreams.  Are they dreams that fit into one of the three previously mentioned  categories?  I can recall dreams that are scary and when I awake from them I'm sweating and searching the bedroom for demons.  Other times I'm dunking the basketball with the best of them in the alley behind my childhood home or hitting one over the fence at one the ballparks I used to play at or needing my wife in the night as the Everly Brothers declare.  Recently I read a newspaper story about dreams and the 10 things you probably don't know about dreaming.  On the list are things such as dreaming before we are even born, dreaming the entire time we are asleep and  knowing that we dream, but never remembering any of our dreams.  Paul McCartney said he woke up and had the tune of 'Yesterday' in his head.  I almost always have a song in my head no matter what the occasion and continue to hear it or even sing it, whistle it or hum it all day as well as hear it in my dreams.  When in high school and having an important test the next day I would read the information over and over in bed until I fell asleep.  I'm sure I would dream about it, since when I woke in the morning I was still going over the info in my head.  Funny thought because by the time I took the test I had forgotten most of the information!  I studied and studied the Periodical Chart when taking chemistry but still had to take the class twice in college before I made it through it.  One of two classes that ever pulled my GPA down.  Not sure why I even took the class since it wasn't necessary for graduation.  Dreaming is believed to play a role in hard-wiring the circuitry of the brain as it develops.  As we mature we often dream frightening or arousing dreams.  Scary dreams are things that need to be remembered while exciting dreams are those that you want to experience more often.  Some of the dreams I have experienced, and I'm sure you have dreamt the same dreams, get a little risqué in nature and leave a smile on my face when I wake up.  Dreams such as these: opportunity, danger, survival, sex ..... are all part of our emotional system.  For the last few years, since I have been  writing my blog stories, at times I would sleep with a notepad and pencil on the nightstand next to the bed.  If I awake from a dream that happened to me years ago and think it might be a good story to post, I'll jot a few notes on the paper before I fall back to sleep.  Quite a few times I wake Carol and she usually would say, "That better be good or I'll @#&*@# you!!  But that's OK.  When we first started dating and couldn't be together all the time, I often though of one of the verses in the song that went ..... When I feel blue in the night, and I need you to hold me tight, Whenever I want you, all I have to do is dream.  And dream of her I would do, and still do.  Well, the Everly Brothers have just finished their song on the radio and now one of my all-time favorites singers, Roy Orbison, is singing "In Dreams."  Remember ..... I close my eyes, Then I drift away, Into the magic night, I softly sway, Oh smile and pray, Like dreamers do, Then I fall asleep, To dream my dreams of you.  Wow!!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.