Jeremy Cubert has not been thinking about music since 1973. He has thoughtlessly recorded and/or played with Quest, Zapotec, Archaic Revival, Apothecary, Formativ, Iconic Sky, The Secret Martyr’s Club, and Alan Scott on keyboards, Chapman Stick and other instruments. "Dreams Wide Awake and Retold" was inspired by a conversation about waking dreams that occur early in the morning and change with retelling. It features the Expressive E Osmose playing the opening lead line with mallets and percussion sounds provided by Arturia Augmented Mallets and Reason Studios Objekt. The mallet parts came first followed by drums (Zendrum controlling Toontrack Hitmakers), piano, NS Chapman Stick, synthesizers (keyboard and LinnStrument), and guitars (rhythm and lead processed through ToneX Alex Lifeson amps).  He also made use of Project SAM's Symphobia Orchestral Library for the orchestral colors.