Following a Dream - My Journey With The Piano

I consider dreams to be one of these most important phenomena of the human experience. They come to us when we retire for the night and there is no way to predict what scenarios will play out in the dream space.

They are sacred. Anyone who tells you otherwise is an individual who is not connected to their own selves. Pray for them, that's all you can do.

I find dreams to be very personal because they happen only to you and no one else. I can't dream your dreams and you can't dream mine. I hold the idea that if you share your dreams it somehow denigrates them, especially if they rock your ass to the core and you wake up a different person. I now find that partly to be true, some things should not be shared under any circumstances.

When you speak your dreams out into this world, you don't know, nor do I, what effect they will have on the listener. You can refer to Jung's, "The Psychology of the Transference" to explore this concept further.

With that said, this is an occasion where I have to share a dream of mine.

One night I found myself in a dream hearing beautiful music. It was piano music and I said to myself, "that's sounds like classical piano music. What is this?" I said to myself.

If perfect could be demonstrated in music, this was it. I was looking up and hearing what I can only describe as divine. At that point I became somewhat lucid and looked down. There was piano keys and I was the one playing. I was watching my hands move across the register and I was hypnotized my the music because it was PERFECT.

I realized I was lucid and decide to move my hands randomly and play. No matter what I did, everything key I touched produced the most beautiful tones I've NEVER heard.

I was in pure awe at what was happening. I them had the thought, "if I could only bring back this music to my people they would be elevated closer to the divine. And then I woke up.

I was laying in bed trying desperately to remember and hold on to the music and the visions of me playing. I eventually came into full awareness and was contemplating what had just happened.

I said, "If only I knew how to write music and play, I could have brought the music back to this world".

At that point, I decided to go pick up a keyboard and get to work. I ended up picking up a full keyboard from Guitar Center with weighted keys and jumped on YouTube.

I knew I should start with scales and i'd eventually figure out where to go after that. Of course, as soon as I looked up piano scales, I got bombarded with piano ads, go figure.

Funny enough, this was the first YouTube ad I have EVER clicked on because I was actually trying to learn. I think his name was Chris Evens, he had this piano superhuman course for like $15, and I picked it up. It was actually good course to start with but I never actually finished it because I had the thought, "I think I should get a professional teacher before I develop bad habits."

So I browsed around for music schools in town and I ended up signing up with the Musical Arts Center of San Antonio. The first one to reach out was my current teacher Glendora Garza.

I came in for our introductory lesson ready to go. I told here, this is what i wan to play, how do I get there?. I queued, "Besaid Island" form Final Fantasy X piano Collections. Please take a listen, I know you'll enjoy Hamauzu Sans works.

She said, "Ok, you have to get through this first." She laid down the Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Level 1 book. "It's boring and dry but you have to know this stuff if you wan tot play at this level" she said. "Alright", I agreed.

She then showed me around the school and showed me the pictures of her students playing at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

I was looking at the stage and drifted off into a vision. I saw myself playing on that beautiful Steinway. Playing the music that created a sanctuary around me and my little brother as children. The works of Nobuo Uemastu and Masashi Hamauzu, the legendary composers of the Final fantasy games that we played as kids.

"I going to be there!" I said with absolute conviction and confidence.

"Ok, its not going to be easy though", Glendora replied.

"I know, that's why I'm here", I said.

And that was the true beginning of my musical journey.

So I'm doing the cliche' thing and following my dreams lol. I encourage you to do the same; RESPONSIBLY. We do dream of nightmares and perversion, and those should be kept in their place until we are ready to face and transmute them..

I hope this story has resonated and touched you in some way. Your dreams are important and should not be ignored. They are messages from deep with in and beyond trying to inform you in symbols that you have to decipher. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams are irrelevant; those people are truly sleep walking.

"The dream shows you everything that you do not know" - Louise Van Franz - The Way of The Dream

Peace be with you,

Louis San Miguel

Stay Real,

Louis San Miguel