Monkee Dreams
Have you ever wondered what you faves dream about? Here are the answers in their very own words!
Mike
I'm what you might call the early bird, because I wake up with the sun. Right now that's about 6:30 a.m. As soon as the sun comes through my window I get up. The only problem is when it's a cloudy day I sleep right on through. That's why I'm usually late to work.
I don't need a lot of sleep, but I need regular sleep. When I go home at night after work I don't watch TV, but I always turn on my stereo.
I have nightmares sometimes. My nightmares usually involve emotions and things like that. A nightmare to me can be a lot of grief. Sometimes I can have just a wonderful dream. The most outstanding thing about my dreams is the fact that I can't remember any of them.
I never sleepwalk anymore, but I did when I was young. I know I did, not just because my mother would tell me, but because I'd wake up in places other than my bed. I used to wake up in the closet, oddly enough, periodically. That's about the only thing I can remember.
I never dream about the Monkees. If I dream about anything, it's usually about a concert. Not a Monkees' concert, but a concert I might attend or a play. They're just things from my imagination.
Before I was married, there was a "girl of my dreams". I used to dream about the same girl, but she wasn't anybody I knew. Nobody in my dreams is ever anybody I know. I've never seen a girl like the one I dreamed of. I've never seen anybody like anyone I dream about.
I'm actually more of a daydreamer than a night-dreamer. I sit and get lost in though during the day. I don't spend much time sleeping.
Davy
You might say I have rather strange sleeping habits. There's quite a bit of preparation before I can fall asleep. I usually climb into bed anywhere from 12 midnight to 5 a.m. and I curl up on my right side with my knees in my face!
I can remember my father telling me, "Don't lie that way. If you stretch your body, you'll grow to be tall." So I would asleep stretching my toes as far as I could. In the morning I'd wake up and be just like a robot. I was so stiff I would ache all day.
I have alarm clock, so I have devised a system so I can wake up on time. I bang my head on the pillow once for each hour of the time I want to get up. So if I want to wake up at 6:30 a.m., I bang my head six times and the half hour is done by laying my head down easy after the sixth bang.
I used to have one recurring dream that would really frighted me. We had a small backyard behind our housr and I'd dream I'd be trapped in one corner by a crocodile. Just before he would bite me I'd wake up. But sometimes he would bite me. When that happened I'd fall out of bed. I'd lie awake the rest of the night too scared to move.
I also kept having a dream about floating and falling. I would be floating downward and just when I was about to hit bottom, more space to fall would appear. I'd fall some more and just as I was ready to hit ground, the ground would drop and I'd keep falling. It was terribly frustrating.
I've been told I walked in my sleep when I was much younger. We had a two-story home and one night I gout of bed and was climbing out a second-story window. Luckily, my mother heard me get up and saved me from jumping or falling, whatever would have happened. She put me back to bed (because I was still asleep) and then told me about it the next day.
I have a favorite dream. i really liek this one, because I pretend I'm Errol Flynn. (A famous film star in the forties). I'm fencing with about 10 guys who are all after me. They push me out the back door of my house (in Manchester) and into a tiny corner in my backyard. In the end I win, that's why I like that dream so much.
The only other thing I dream about is riding horses. I've ridden millions of winners in my sleep. I had a fun joke a few months ago. I told all these newspaper reporters I had ridden 26 winners when I was home for Christmas in 1965. I really did, but only in my dreams!
Peter
I used to have a terrible recurring dream about being frozen in one position. It's not just a dream. It comes on when I'm sleeping and it's particular feeling that comes over me. I feel stiff, just for no reason and I wake up the moment it starts to happen. Whenever these spells come on me, I was half-way between awake and asleep. I would be awake enough to realize that I was in dutch some way, but I can't operate, I can't move.
I sleep nude and sometimes I can't go to sleep until very late at night, but sometimes I can. Now I have to get to bed eight hours before I have to be up for work or I can't operate the next day. I stay up late sometimes, but it's not by choice, it's because I can't sleep.
I have an alarm radio, so I usually wake up to music. But I would wake up on time even if I didn't have the radio. I don't sleepwalk, but I do sleeptalk. I talk in my sleep alot! My brother told me I once sat up in bed and started shouting in Russian. I was studying Russian at the time and I sat and I sat there rattling off this Russian speech.
I had typical nightmares when I was young - falling out of buildings, being in front of steam rollers, drowning - all those. I really don't dream much anymore. Maybe the reason I don't dream is that I actually do, but I don't remember them.
All my real-life situations are material for dreams, when I do dream. I've dreamed, but I don't remember, specifically, but I know that I have dreamed about situations involving the other Monkees.
I've had dreams involving girls. Generally, they're imaginary, if they're really good. Like one dream I woke up in the morning and I felt good all day long. It involved a love scene with a really "with it" kind of girl. It was like one of those perfect scenes that you can't even imagine. I just felt really great all day long after that.
Micky
The most memorable thing about my dreams is that I have a very hard time remembering them. I used to dream I had the power to fly. I'd flap my arms up and down and go soaring around but then I'd start to fall! When I began falling, I'd start having dreams about falling.
I can recall when I was very young, probably around six or seven, I went to the movies and saw "War of the Worlds". It was a science fiction movie about the earth being invaded by people from outer space. It was really scary and for weeks I dreamed that little men from Mars were hiding under my bed. Whenever I'd wake up after dreaming that, I'd be really afraid, but I'd look under my bed to check for space people.
Some people claim that certain foods provoke certain kinds of dreams, but I don't think their theory works on me. I eat everything and anything and it doesnt effect my dreams one way or another. I even eat chili just before going to bed, but it doesnt make me have bad dreams.
Sometimes, if I do one particular activity all day long, I'll dream about it that night. Like one day when I was 10 or 11 years old I spent the whole day on my grandmother's ranch. There were lots of flies around and I was killing them with a fly swatter. They were all over the place! So when I went home that night, I dreamed I was being attacked by huge flies!
Also, I'm buying a race car. It's a "Formula 2 Brabram" - a Grand Prix racer. I really like racing cars: and the day I went to pick mine out I was so excited I dreamed about it all that night.
I can remember having dreams about Davy, Peter and Mike, but I don't dream about the Monkees shows or live concerts. I don't sleepwalk or sleeptalk. I imagine that I've done these things at some time, but I just can't remember. If I don't watch out, I might forget to fall asleep some night!