AKUSfan2 - Posted - 01/07/2010:  12:17:05

OK- I must be loosing it!

We played our regular jam session on Tuesday night. No big deal other than the weather here has been down to the single digit every night for the past week.
It's colder than a well digger's hind-end!

Last night, I woke up around 3am, with a horrible feeling that seemed totaly "life-like".
I really thought that I had somehow left my Stelling banjo in the trunk of our car that was parked in our driveway.
The temp was 4 degrees outside. I was convinced that I really had left it in the trunk.

Like a complete idiot, and only half awake, I threw on some clothes and ran outside, barefoot, and, popped open the trunk only to find the trunk empty.

I ran back inside and there at the foot of our bed was both of my banjo cases. I picked each one up to feel the weigh, just to make sure they were both insides their cases.

My heart was beating 90 miles an hour, because I honestly, really thought that I had ruined a great banjo.

Tell me that I'm not the only one that has had this kind of Nightmare/Wake up Call?

strokestyle - Posted - 01/07/2010:  12:43:34

This past New Years we went down to our property in Southern IL to have a special weekend with my favorite fiddlers. I was so excited the night before we left and did finally go to sleep. I dreamed that “my husband” didn’t load all my banjos in the car. When we arrived it really wasn’t our farm, but a diner and there were lots of people jamming with my fiddlers already. I found one of my banjo cases and when I opened it ...it was a tenor banjo, help I don’t even play a tenor banjo...when I found the other one it was in a soft shell case in the middle of a pile of hard-shell cases. When I took it out it was smashed and a total mess. I tried to glue it back together, but I am Mrs. Clubbelson, so that would never work. I felt really, really bad.... bad enough to wake up out of my dead sleep. I had a rock in my tummy the rest of the night. I didn’t run to check on the banjo like you, but it took a while to get over it. Need less to say I made sure all my banjos made it in the car with hard shell cases...that trip.

majorwoody75006 - Posted - 01/07/2010:  13:01:55

Well I've never had a dream/nightmare like that! Is that the first time?
I did have a dream that I go on stage and we all start playing and then I realize that my banjo is WAY out of tune. I must have bumped it as I walked up. Oh yea, that was no dream, it was real! But it keeps playing like a bad dream. Ugh!

spaz - Posted - 01/07/2010:  13:19:13

in his book ralph says he keeps having a recurring dream that he and carter are at a show getting ready to go on. they get introduced and try to walk out on stage but something always happens and they're never able to make it.. kinda sad..

here is my banjo dream.. http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/142015

Hankulator - Posted - 01/07/2010:  13:23:16

back in the '70's i did have a real live nightmare, our band had a gig playing at a frog jump contest on saturday after noon in our local town on a flatbed truck trailer. that evening we had a very good job playing at a cool tavern in portland ore. 50 miles away when we got there i opened my case and there it laid my gibson rb 250 with the neck broken at the heel. it was horrible!!! it was like looking at a broken arm or something.

Mainechowder - Posted - 01/07/2010:  13:24:21

They are not so much like nightmares, but I think my wife has "dreams" similar to the ones you guys had recently, where my banjo is lost or destroyed