Kai Dickens

We bridge through dreaming and that's how the songwriting started, where Kyle started giving me words and would hum a tune when I'd wake up remembering that tune or almost humming that tune as I was waking up in the morning. For his album named Beyond the Syntax...

He came to me and he told me that he wanted me to write songs about what it's like to be autistic, what it's like for him to experience the world. He said, these songs I want you to write for me. You've just got to try and remember. So I dreamt pretty much all the songs in one night. So I woke up trying to write all the words down that I could remember. And then I fell back to sleep again.

He came to me and he told me that he wanted me to write songs about what it's like to be autistic, what it's like for him to experience the world. He said, these songs I want you to write for me. You've just got to try and remember. So I dreamt pretty much all the songs in one night. So I woke up trying to write all the words down that I could remember. And then I fell back to sleep again.

And then I got up in the morning, started carry on writing again, seeing if I could recall the themes of the songs and some of the words he'd given me. My job is to get pen to paper as fast as possible to be able to get those words down on paper for him.

And then I got up in the morning, started carry on writing again, seeing if I could recall the themes of the songs and some of the words he'd given me. My job is to get pen to paper as fast as possible to be able to get those words down on paper for him.

When we're in the music studio and we're actually recording them, that's when he's really telling me if he's happy or not happy because it either flows or it doesn't. He either sings the songs that we've written for him and put the music to them and it's a very organic, natural process, or he kind of gets almost a bit catatonic and he stops as if to say, no, this doesn't feel right.

When we're in the music studio and we're actually recording them, that's when he's really telling me if he's happy or not happy because it either flows or it doesn't. He either sings the songs that we've written for him and put the music to them and it's a very organic, natural process, or he kind of gets almost a bit catatonic and he stops as if to say, no, this doesn't feel right.

So sometimes we have to change the melody. Or we might have to change the bridge of the song so it feels right in his body. Sometimes if there's a word that doesn't fit with him, he will actually change that word while he's singing. And he also changes the timing sometimes.

So sometimes we have to change the melody. Or we might have to change the bridge of the song so it feels right in his body. Sometimes if there's a word that doesn't fit with him, he will actually change that word while he's singing. And he also changes the timing sometimes.

And then actually the song ends up feeling a totally different song sometimes. But I think that's him orientating energetically to how he wants that song to feel inside him as he's singing it. He's the vessel for the song. I know he does it for autism and the non-speakers.

And then actually the song ends up feeling a totally different song sometimes. But I think that's him orientating energetically to how he wants that song to feel inside him as he's singing it. He's the vessel for the song. I know he does it for autism and the non-speakers.

He feels this to be his mission or he's being of service to all the other people like him that can't express how they feel and think and what they experience on a daily basis.

He feels this to be his mission or he's being of service to all the other people like him that can't express how they feel and think and what they experience on a daily basis.

I think he's singing that on behalf of other people that are like him, that can't communicate through conventional language to the everyday world.

I think he's singing that on behalf of other people that are like him, that can't communicate through conventional language to the everyday world.

There's like a sort of an invisible pressure that he's impinging a kind of energy on me that makes me take notice.

There's like a sort of an invisible pressure that he's impinging a kind of energy on me that makes me take notice.

That's my cue to empty out and have nothing in my internal dialogue. And if I'm quiet and I'm receptive, then that's when he will give me a stream of words or even song lyrics. Parents and teachers capable of this two-way telepathy say that emptying out is key. When I think nothing and I'm just in my body awareness, then that's when we really go into that deeper field.

That's my cue to empty out and have nothing in my internal dialogue. And if I'm quiet and I'm receptive, then that's when he will give me a stream of words or even song lyrics. Parents and teachers capable of this two-way telepathy say that emptying out is key. When I think nothing and I'm just in my body awareness, then that's when we really go into that deeper field.

And it's like the waking dream. And sometimes I get