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Hey everyone,
I’m looking for instrumental tracks to sample that have a similar vibe to Mathbonus – “Wave To Me”.
I’m specifically looking for:
No vocals / lyrics
A very catchy, prominent melody
Clearly audible chords / harmonic progression
Melancholic, nostalgic, slightly sad atmosphere
Loud and expressive, not ambient or super chill
Something that could be chopped into a hip-hop loop
Preferably something from 2010–2019
Ideally something less obvious / obscure
Basically, I’m looking for a track where the melody and chords are the main focus, rather than just atmospheric texture.
If you know anything that fits, I’d really appreciate some recommendations. Thanks!

P.S. I’m also open to anything with a vibe similar to TV Girl.

This might sound weird as fuck, but I’ve had basically the same nightmare on and off since I was around 6. I’m 17 now.
The weird part is that it’s never exactly the same dream. The places, people and whole situations change, but the main thing is always the same:
Something is chasing me. I can’t see it. I just KNOW it’s there, and I have to run.
The first one I remember was when I was about 6. I was at home and my parents left. There was this broken drawer in my room that I wasn’t supposed to open. Of course, being a dumb curious kid, I opened it.
Nothing was there. But I suddenly got this horrible feeling that something was there. I couldn’t see anything, I just felt it.
Then it started chasing me through the city.
I had a few dreams like that as a kid. In one of them, I actually managed to escape to another town with a friend. Whatever it was disappeared, but I still had this feeling that it wasn’t really over.
Then the dreams stopped for a while.
When they came back years later, the locations were completely random. I’ve run from it through places like water parks, forests, cities, places with palm trees, even a morgue. The setting could be literally anything, but somehow I’d always end up running from the same unknown thing.
Sometimes my brain would randomly give it an identity too. Once I somehow knew it was Deadpool, even though I never actually saw Deadpool in the dream and there was literally no connection to him lol.
The last one happened when I was around 16.
I was hanging out with some friends, we got into some stupid situation with an old guy, and he pulled out a gun. We all started running.
Then suddenly my friends just… disappeared.
And I immediately knew:
“Oh fuck. It’s this dream again.”
I ran through the city and eventually got back to my neighborhood. My younger siblings were outside even though it was nighttime, but they completely ignored me when I tried talking to them.
I went home, went to sleep, and then woke up inside the dream.
And I was running again.
Near the end I was running through a forest and finally decided to stop running and actually try to see whatever had been chasing me all these years.
I looked back and for like a split second I saw this insanely bright yellow light.
Then I woke up.
And weirdly enough, I haven’t had the nightmare since.
Has anyone else had something like this? Not necessarily the exact same story, but a nightmare that keeps coming back for YEARS where the locations and details change, but the same basic feeling and “thing” stays the same?
I’m especially curious if anyone else had a recurring nightmare where the thing chasing them was basically invisible, and they just somehow knew it was there.