So this may not be a thing for all of you experienced concert goers, or maybe it’s even more of a thing, depending on you, personally. Who knows?
But I just saw my first AFI concert this year, and since then, I’ve had dreams of the concert. Reliving it to a certain degree, but it also comes with weird circumstances, as dreams do.
For instance, being part of a live concert, but only people who knew the lyrics were allowed up front. Being part of the crowd, but Davey wasn’t supposed to start singing until we did the right chant. The band came into the audience and we all got to hold hands. Idk, weird dream shit, ok?
Just wondering if the band’s performances or music have infiltrated anyone else’s subconscious like mine.
Ahh, yes, the classic “Weird Dreams with AFI” thread; it was only a matter of time before it washed up on this here forum. As a matter of fact AFI concert dreams have been, for the most part, the only kinds of AFI dreams I’ve had. Seen them in, I guess a couple (seated) theaters, and one time in my local park! I’ve heard Fainting Spells, Prelude 12/21, Girl’s Not Grey, Leaving Song pt. 2, and I want to say Summer Shudder in these various dreams. There may have even been an imagined version of “The View From Here”, or some AFI song that didn’t exist. I wish I’d remembered it; if it wasn’t an actual AFI song, I could have written it.
There was actually one AFI dream where I met Jade (2006 hair) and I started telling him about my musical influences but then the dream did that thing where your speech becomes inaudible. In another part of that same dream, taking place from the perspective of a top down diagonal video game (think Sonic 3D Blast, parts of Super Mario 3D world), I accidentally killed Adam when I knocked a bike on him. He fell over.
These and wackier scenarios were, as you are probably well aware, quite common among the Despair Faction in the mid-late 2000s. I recall one DFer dreamed that Jade turned into a package of frozen chicken. Would love to see how strong the phenomenon is 10 years after their heyday.
I have the most vivid and startling dreams all the time, so thankfully AFI have really only played a role two or three times. They’re honestly like some enough versions of Alice in Wonderland.
I recently had a stress dream involving them. It was beyond weird and so not ever possible. But for some reason, I had failed at everything in life, was flipping burgers at McDonald’s (not that I’m putting that job down; I’m a vegan, though, so this can’t happen) and after my ex came in to order and did not recognize and called me a peasant (long story), Davey and Jade came in. Davey wanted a Big Mac and Jade wanted a McFlurry and for some odd reason started screaming at me. This is about when I woke up.
Back in '06 when I was in high school, I had the weirdest dream involved AFI, HIM, and Green Day playing Battle of the Bands at my school. I was the judge and couldn’t pick a fave band. Then the gym/auditorium doors slammed open with stereotypical smoke and bright light. Jared Leto came striding in and settled the score- AFI won. Jared Leto then proceeded to become Frank from Donnie Darko and kidnapped Jade so…yeah, I’m kind of happy these dreams don’t happen often and only when I’m under serious stress.
That sounds like an amazing dream Tonianne!
I have had dreams involving them, it’s a shame I don’t tend to remember dreams unless they’ve been particularly weird (like once I had a dream of Gwen Stefani trying to blow my house up with me and Robbie Williams (british pop star) inside).
I did dream of Davey last night - I was at some kind of event where I saw him but was too shy to speak to him . Hope it’s not a premonition! I would kick myself if I saw any of the band members but didn’t pluck up the courage to speak to them.
Just now, I remembered I’d had a dream a few months ago in which I’d found at a Savers a copy of the Sing the Sorrow book. But it was red like the cover of the standard issue album. (Or was it the grey? I can’t remember. Maybe both grey and red?). This book was also curiously titled “The AFI Book (for girls)”.
After the dream ended I imagined what conditions could have existed in that universe to breed an artifact like that.
^:laughing: I wonder if there was a boy’s version? We’ll never know. Did you look inside the book?
I had a BA dream last night. I was at a festival or outdoor BA gig. Davey was on stage and I was stood next to Jade some way back in the field, watching and dancing.
Davey started singing a song called Birds (it was really good-what a shame it doesn’t exist!) and put on a red hooded cape. At the same time, Jade put on a white hooded cape. Jade was singing along next to me and I was having to pretend that I knew the lyrics in front of him and I was really embarassed that I didn’t know them .
It was the most interesting dream I’ve had for quite a long time .
Some kid pulled the fire alarm in my apartment building a few nights ago and I had a dream that my apartment actually was on fire and that my entire AFI collection and my Schecter burned. It was horrifying.
Reviving an old thread But I had an AFI dream last night
I was on a fair and was going into a roller coaster and met Adam…who was helping me into getting the best selfie with him to post on Instagram…Davey, Jade and Hunter were sitting behind us and we were just talking and trying get the most awesome picture…first with Adam and the with the whole band…
It was pretty awesome! And the second time I had an AFI dream!
This is a dream I had many, many years ago - when I was still in high school. I still remember it pretty damn clearly for some reason. I was in this very big, weird, gothic victorian mansion. There was a doorway to a maze that was lit up with purple lights. Davey showed up, and his hair basically looked the way it did during that special time in between AOD and STS, when his hair wasn’t quite long yet but was certainly getting there (think Warped Tour 2001). I’m pretty sure he told me to use lyrics from “The Despair Factor” as a guide through the maze. It barely makes sense, really.
I also had a brief one once where I was just walking through a forest and fall colors had come in, and I found Davey dancing with a guy that had a pumpkin for a head. Honestly, it kinda seems like something he’d probably do.
I’ve had a few AFI dreams. The most vivid one was where Davey stole my vegan dessert and Hunter made him give it back. It’s a nice break from the anxiety dreams about my car!
Oddly enough I had a weird AFI-related dream earlier today. It didn’t directly involve the band but it involved all of my CDs and records being broken by a thief instead of just… stolen. Maybe they just really didn’t like AFI
If I ever met them again… I almost feel like I’d have to enter an alter ego to talk to them in a normal fashion and not be awkward… lol. Like, act like I don’t know who they are or something and talk to them like random awesome people…
I had an awesome Davey (or one of the Davey’s) and AFI dream the other night. I had just collected an AFI e.p. rarity and all of the AFI family showed up at my house and we bonded on what the album meant to us - how we cherished it’s on-of-a-kind ness and how awesome we felt being beloved by AFI! THE BEST AFI dream I have ever had!!!
. Hope it’s not a premonition! I would kick myself if I saw any of the band members but didn’t pluck up the courage to speak to them.
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But I had an AFI dream last night 
