Have you ever woken up with a song in your head? Whether it was a golden oldie or a brand new original, these can be powerful moments! Craig Webb, author of “The Dreams Behind the Music“ shares stories about dream-inspired music including by Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger, and he shares with us some of his own dream songs. This show is a conversation about the song-writers who get inspiration from their dreams. It was recorded April 2020, in the midst of the Covid crisis and includes several original dream-inspired songs. We take a call from Christine from Nevada who asks about how best to capture and make use of dream song ideas.
Bio: Craig Webb is an author, physicist, and dream-inspired musician. Craig is a widely-traveled speaker involved with pioneering lucid dream research at Stanford University. He designed lucid dream induction technology which has been sold worldwide and has also created peak performance devices and unique multimedia performance tools. His book, The Dreams Behind the Music, reveals little-known dreams that inspired great success for over 100 famous artists, and highlights principles and techniques anyone can use to harvest their own dreams for significant breakthroughs.
This show, episode number 308, was broadcast April 26, 2025. It is a replay of a live broadcast recorded April 23, 2020 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.
Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for the answering the phones.
The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams is coming! Mark your calendars for October 10-12, 2025 and check our landing page at FestivalofDream.net and FB group page HERE. Follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB, LI, & IG.
SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.
The Dream Journal aims to:
Increase awareness of and appreciation for nightly dreams.
Inspire dream sharing and other kinds of dream exploration as a way of adding depth and meaningfulness to lives and relationships.
Improve society by the increased empathy, emotional balance, and sense of wonder which dream exploration invites.
A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.
The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.
Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts.
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