Music has been a muse for me for a very long time. I can’t express how inspiring it is to be sitting somewhere comfortably with my music and my thoughts start creating a world with characters and places. Music seems to bring out my inner director. The images form and coalesce into a montage of ideas, feelings and expressions. My first initial thoughts seems to be what i want to write and express in some way but i always end up re-listening and reforming those thoughts and try to come up with a coherent story. Most of the time i don’t write anything at all. They stay in my head and i regret, much later, that i didn’t put the idea down on paper. I’m learning, albeit a bit late, to write, dictate, or draw those ideas now. I don’t want to have moments of forgetful disappointments when the idea becomes fresh again and i realized the amazing details of that idea are no longer there. We have all been there. It’s very disappointing.
Try it yourself.. Listen to the song... close your eyes.. Let your mind wander and think about how the song makes you feel. What do you see in your mind’s eye? How does that story make you feel? Do you feel the story? Write it down. I hope i can help to inspire someone else in this form of meditative creative thinking.