This song has always been a personal favorite of mine. When my mother died very suddenly of a brain aneurysm three years ago, I heard the song in a whole new way. I imagined that she was singing to me, and that she was there with me, watching over me, and that if I tried hard enough I could also be there with her. I still cry every time I hear this song, thinking of my mother, but I embrace it, it has helped me along my healing process in a way that I cannot even begin to describe. The power of music is so unbelievable, and I think that it is in the ear of listener as to what the songs are really about to them.

Since I'm really into spirituality, first, I think everyone's adaptations are valid. I feel this song is a song from God, All That Is, the creator, our source, whatever you want to call it. I'll break down the lyrics...

God or our Higher Self that is connected to our lower self or ego or mind is calming us, talking about a bad dream in our head...this can be a regular dream but I think this is LIFE, just a dream, an illusion. Our minds are tricked to think the pain of life, this dream, is real. The line about being tricked to feel the pain about someone close leaving the game really hit home with me because I lost my brother when he was only 27. ANother chance, wide awake to face another day, dream is over (we think our night dreams are dreams but daily life is real) or has it just begun? Meaning...our lives are truly the dream of a Higher Self and ultimately, God.

There's a place I like to hide...this is God or Higher Self talking about the void, the singularity from which all comes from, a doorway that God comes through in the night...a place that is not our third dimension. Relax child (us) you were there...yes, we come from Source and a higher part of ourselves are always connected to source so we came from this place (there) but didn't realize and we were scared. Our lower selves, the ego, is disconnected from what we truly are and that oneness can be pretty scary!

To face your fears, retrace the years and ride the whims of your mind. In transcending the ego and realizing who we really are, we must face our fears and darkness, we see everything we have been and how we have affected everything in retracing the years and riding the whims of our mind is seeing that our mind is only temporary and creates reality through the whims of its desires...

Commanding in another world, this is our Higher Self commanding or guiding our lower selves or egos from another world, the world that is limitless, the world from which we truly come from...spirit or the void...suddenly you hear and see this magic new dimension...this is if you can go inside, transcend the ego and the illusion that your mind creates and see who you really are and that we are all sparks of God or source...the magic new dimension is the place where there are no limits. The I in the new few lines can be interpreted as God, our your own Higher Self, watching over your lower self...guiding you back to where you came from, protecting you, quietly with you without interrupting your free will to create and "dream" a life.

If you open your mind for me, you won't rely on open eyes to see. If you open your mind to God and who you truly are, you won't need your physical eyes to see...you will be going inside and seeing as whole spirit. The walls you build within come tumbling down and a new world will begin. The walls we build with our mind and ego through programming and illusion and disconnectedness with our source, if we transcend that mind and connect with who we are, will go away, we will see the illusion and dream for what it is and we will reconnect with oneness again and live in a new world, so to speak...the veil will be lifted and we will not be asleep to who we are anymore.

Living twice at once you learn...living twice at once means that we think we are only our ego, our mind, our body, our personality but we are so much more, we are pure spirit only projecting itself into this mind and body so we are two beings living twice at once...

You learn through recognizing that you are pure spirit and limitless that you are safe from pain (an illusion) in the dream domain (what we think is real life), a soul set free to fly...yes! We are pure spirit, not really bodies and minds! If we recognize our true limitlessness, we are not imprisoned by the mind and its dream. A round trip journey in your head...all of our physical reality is created from spirit and through the mind first and finally into physicality, ask any quantum physicist! We create from nothing into something...as God or creator did in the beginning as we are co-creators. Master of Illusion (that's us!) can you realize? Can you wake up to who you really are?

Your dream's alive (coming from spirit) you can be the guide (you can get in touch with your true, Higher Self, with the God source) but...
and then again, the I is God or Higher Self reassuring your lower/ego self.

This song is about enlightenment and who we truly are. It is about a lot of things, lucid dreaming, personal messages to listeners, etc. but on a whole, this song is talking to the real you asking you to WAKE UP!!!

This song is absolutely amazing to me and shakes me to the core every time I listen to it. It resonates with TRUTH. I hope I've helped some with this comment! Lots of light and love, Kel from Ohio.

its an extremly groovy song why does it need to mean any thing else

Lucid dreaming is dream control, thats all it means. But the beauty of music is just like any other art, the artist makes you feel something. Whatever any song makes you feel is correct, and I believe, the artists goal, not to find the exact meaning, so enjoy!

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dfenton's comment is very moving. And this song is very moving. I used to meditate to this song. It just strikes a very pleasant chord and resonates inside of your head to give you this warm, calm feeling that rolls over you. Even when the song crescendos and grows louder, it is still calm.

In any case, to me, the song is a close loved one or a soul mate that died. The lyrics are reassurance that they will be with them in dreams and inside of their hearts wherever they go. That's it. Such a beautiful song ... so little to say about it.

dfenton's comment is very moving. And this song is very moving. I used to meditate to this song. It just strikes a very pleasant chord and resonates inside of your head to give you this warm, calm feeling that rolls over you. Even when the song crescendos and grows louder, it is still calm.

In any case, to me, the song is a close loved one or a soul mate that died. The lyrics are reassurance that they will be with them in dreams and inside of their hearts wherever they go. That's it. Such a beautiful song ... so little to say about it.

It's pretty clear that the song talks about lucid dreaming but i think it definitely has a deeper meaning.

As most of you know, Lucid Dreaming is when you realize you are dreaming and being able to take control of that dream. A lot of people learn how to Lucid Dream so they can get over nightmares they keep having. Others do it to experience amazing things that can only happen in the dream world...

Silent Lucidity makes me believe I have the power to over come my fears and take control of my life. This song makes me not believe in Destiny even more. It makes me believe no matter how fucked things are for me, I can still make them right, I can feel safe and happy, and I can live the life I want...All it requires is determination, faith and a good try ;)

I believe the dream symbolizes life, and the lucid state symbolizes the power to take control... at least thats what it means to me :)

I first heard this song a few hours ago and i'm already in love with it and it already means so much to me.

Oh... and if any of you are interested in my personal view of the song then you should totaly read a book called the secret, or just watch a documentary bassed on the book also called the secret.

This powerful song - means more than dreaming within our dreams
it means more than - those who has passed on & their spirit upon
us -- what it truly means is --

Meeting your Twin soul~ It's not an easy journey - and much pain
always seems to intervene, and how together they do reach that
final destination. It's done with the utmost respect of spirituality
and it's highest realm ever possiable that it's hard to even measure.

This song is the most spiritual of all. And with having that kind
of intimacy with our creator - and sharing it with your one & only
-- energy surpasses all things. Esp.. when that energy connects
miles & miles away. Nothing else like it, "nothing!" In order to
abtain such though, one has to be in the "light" of our creator
always searching for truths with purity of the heart. As well as
have compassion for all ~living things..

It's the greatest journey one could ever partake!

Yes, the song is about lucid dreaming, but you're all missing the main point: the song is being told from the point of view of a loved one who has passed on. The loved one is saying, "even though you can't see me anymore, I'm still here watching over you, and I will visit you in dreams and help you through the tough times" Our dead loved ones wants us to realize they are there in the dream with us always. The greater message is that there is no real death, only change, and the spiritual world encompasses the dream world, which is why the dead can more easily make contact with us there.

This song is so different to me. It makes me really think deeply. Honestly, my dad just showed it to me last weekend so I had never heard it before. But It carries significant meaning to my life specifically.
My dad had a 6-way bypass heart surgery in 2008 over thanksgiving break and he thought he was going to die, so once while I was laying my head on his legs in the hospital bed, he told me a story.

When my Mom found out she was pregnant with me, my parents had already separated and weren't looking to have anymore children. They had talked about how to deal with...me, I guess. They decided to have me aborted. Then one day they were driving to the abortion clinic, and there was a song playing. Since they refused to speak in the car, they listened to this song. Then, while the song was still playing, My father parked next to the clinic, conflicted with a mixture of emotion I'm guessing. In this song, the guitar solo played and my dad listened to the voices in the background and finally heard what sounded like "help me" at the end of that solo. Tears immediately started in his eyes and as my mother started to get out, my dad stopped her and admitted he couldn't do it.
Then they drove off, and here I am today:)

But this song is just so moving, I have lost several loved ones and lyrics like these really make it hard not to cry every time I hear them. I never thought a song could move me this much.

great song:)

I think this song is about dreams.Because when it says 'Yor dream is over or has it just begun' its saying that somone close you to you has died, but they will always be with you.

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