"Silent Lucidity" is a single by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche from the 1990 album Empire. The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #1 on the Billboard Album Rock...
Hush now don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game
Of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake, you face the day
Your dream is over...
Or has it just begun?
There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize
And you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you'll hear and see
This magic new dimension
I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you
In silent lucidity...
Spoken:
Visualize your dream (Yes)
Record it in the present tense (Don't be scared)
Put it into a permanent form
If you persist in your efforts
You can achieve a dream control
(Control)
(How're you doing today?) (Better?)
Dream come true
Dream come true
Dream come true
Help me...
If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down
And a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize?
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but
I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you...
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game
Of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake, you face the day
Your dream is over...
Or has it just begun?
There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run through in the night
Relax child, you were there
But only didn't realize
And you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears, retrace the years
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly, you'll hear and see
This magic new dimension
I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you
In silent lucidity...
Spoken:
Visualize your dream (Yes)
Record it in the present tense (Don't be scared)
Put it into a permanent form
If you persist in your efforts
You can achieve a dream control
(Control)
(How're you doing today?) (Better?)
Dream come true
Dream come true
Dream come true
Help me...
If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down
And a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain in the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion, can you realize?
Your dream's alive, you can be the guide but
I
Will be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I
Will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you...
Lyrics submitted by Boonechic_21, edited by XXX729
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To me, basically, it's a song about a parent consoling a child who has awaken from a dream about loosing a parent. Most children don't fully understand death, so they don't understand the complexity of feelings when a loved one dies and they don't cry/mourn for the loss. The lyrics state that the the "mind TRICKED you to feel the pain..." As the child wakes more, they're presented with the thought that it must have been a dream...or was it?
The door is symbolic in nature...a way to keep themselves separated from the world, and that they go through the door at night - thusly, dreaming. The parent then comforts the child by telling them that they were in that special place, the place where they can still see/talk to the other parent, but they didn't realize where they were and became scared.
In this place, the "dreamer" will learn to face their fears, remember this from time past, and indulge in the minds fantasies, whatever they may be. While in this place, they will be in control of their fears/feelings, and that once they learn this control over their fears, they will see a new dimension (metaphor for "the solution to the problem"). This does give credence to Lucid Dreaming.
The remaining parent continues to console the child by reassuring they will always look out for them, that they will always be there to help them, and that they will be there to protect them in the night - when they don't maintain the control.
Visualize the dream - remember it once awake, and write it down not in the past or future tense, but right now. If the child persists in writing their dreams down, they will see the changes they affect in their dreams, and then be able to control the dream (metaphor for a problem/memory?).
If the child keeps an open mind, they'll realize that they don't have to keep their eyes open to "see what needs to be done," that the answer will come to them ANY time. The "walls"/barriers to completing the task or solving the problem will be removed once they're able to close their eyes, while awake, see the answer and put it into motion and a new world presents it's self as the problem has been solved.
Living twice at once...the life you have while in the normal world and the life you lead while in the dream world - will teach the child that nothing will harm them in their dream world because they have control in their dreams - that there is nothing they can't do.
The dream has come full circle - from the beginning, to the formulation of a plan to remove the barriers/walls put up to keep the world out, to the execution of the plan and achieving dream control. The "Master of Illusion" is the dreamer - the dream is an illusion, and the dreamer is the master (dream control), and do they know that there is a greater power in life, other than themselves? If so, they realize that the dream (loss of a parent) is REAL (alive), and that they can be their own guide through their dream world (lucid dreaming).
Ask me again in a couple hours and I'll probably have a different meaning...:S
People are so unimaginative, thinking this to just be a love song.
I've been interested in lucid dreaming too...and this is the lucid dreaming theme song!