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.
Hi KLH, I hope you don't mind if I point out some other interpretations of the lyrics as it relates to lucid dreaming.
Hi KLH, I hope you don't mind if I point out some other interpretations of the lyrics as it relates to lucid dreaming.
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?
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?
The whole first part of this song is about how lucid dreaming works. Usually when someone becomes lucid (or aware they are dreaming) in their dream, they wake up. Sometimes you do not wake up physically though and you attain dream control. When this happens, you must do reality checks. "Your mind tricked you to feel the pain" simply refers to thinking you've already awoke and you are experiencing real life. Believe me when I say it is extremely difficult to tell the difference. "Your dream is over... or has it just begun?" simply refers to the possibility that you may still in-fact be dreaming.
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 hear and see
This magic new dimension
This portion of the song lays out what lucid dreaming is "a doorway that I run through in the night". The child was there, just didn't realize it. Facing fears and retracing years refers to being able to re-experience things you experienced before, also being able to face your fears (flying, heights, etc) without putting yourself at risk. Commanding in another world is simply being able to control your dream.
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...
This last part has some things in it only very experienced lucid dreamers will know about. Especially the "living twice at once" reference, as this pertains to being able to directly control your physical body and maintain your dream state by controlling the chemical your brain releases during REM to induce sleep paralysis. This is a highly complex task but one that some lucid dreamers have mastered. Most lucid dreamers will not even know how to do this, it took me 15 years of dreaming lucidly before I could do it, it just happened. The rest of this portion basically states that you can make your dream whatever you want, you just have to do reality checks often. It takes a lot of discipline to do it, but anyone can do it over time, and sometimes a person will do it on accident, freak out a bit, and that's why we have this song!
It is interesting as this song basically throws out all this terminology and all these great lyrics for us to interpret. Since very few people (overall) actually pursue lucidity and encourage it, most people aren't aware of what it entails and the effects of it's experience... I encourage anyone who wants to learn more to research it.
@KLH I had to respond I hope you receive this. I was so inspired by this song, I wrote a three page paper comments interpretation of the lyrics as I beleive....my paper is identical to your interpretation.....exactly. I think to be able to interpret this as so, a person must have a higher level of consciousness to begin with. I treasure your response because it is rare to interact or witness another person with this ability.
It is a choice to accept your higher self and explore it thereby gaining control of...
@KLH I had to respond I hope you receive this. I was so inspired by this song, I wrote a three page paper comments interpretation of the lyrics as I beleive....my paper is identical to your interpretation.....exactly. I think to be able to interpret this as so, a person must have a higher level of consciousness to begin with. I treasure your response because it is rare to interact or witness another person with this ability.
It is a choice to accept your higher self and explore it thereby gaining control of the ego self, therefor attains a higher level consciousness. Simple as that. Bless you.
@KLH I absolutely agree! I was just telling my husband to at when I was in high school and first heard this song I experienced it from the perspective of a parent consoling a child who had awoken from a dream or nightmare. Once I was older I understood it as lucid dreaming. Only recently did I listen to this song and hear this new “dimension” to the lyrics. I absolutely think it’s meant to be this way. I even feel like you could listen to the first verse thinking of a child and parent, the second verse and think...
@KLH I absolutely agree! I was just telling my husband to at when I was in high school and first heard this song I experienced it from the perspective of a parent consoling a child who had awoken from a dream or nightmare. Once I was older I understood it as lucid dreaming. Only recently did I listen to this song and hear this new “dimension” to the lyrics. I absolutely think it’s meant to be this way. I even feel like you could listen to the first verse thinking of a child and parent, the second verse and think of learning to lucid dream while also mastering manifestation in the reality as well, then the final verse brings to mind angels watching over us or the collective unconsciousness of other beings, loved ones and ancestors guiding us through the process of life and especially death (or the reconnection to our real lives). I’m glad it resonated this way with others as well and was pleased to see your interpretation.
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.
Hi KLH, I hope you don't mind if I point out some other interpretations of the lyrics as it relates to lucid dreaming.
Hi KLH, I hope you don't mind if I point out some other interpretations of the lyrics as it relates to lucid dreaming.
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?
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?
The whole first part of this song is about how lucid dreaming works. Usually when someone becomes lucid (or aware they are dreaming) in their dream, they wake up. Sometimes you do not wake up physically though and you attain dream control. When this happens, you must do reality checks. "Your mind tricked you to feel the pain" simply refers to thinking you've already awoke and you are experiencing real life. Believe me when I say it is extremely difficult to tell the difference. "Your dream is over... or has it just begun?" simply refers to the possibility that you may still in-fact be dreaming.
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 hear and see This magic new dimension
This portion of the song lays out what lucid dreaming is "a doorway that I run through in the night". The child was there, just didn't realize it. Facing fears and retracing years refers to being able to re-experience things you experienced before, also being able to face your fears (flying, heights, etc) without putting yourself at risk. Commanding in another world is simply being able to control your dream.
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...
This last part has some things in it only very experienced lucid dreamers will know about. Especially the "living twice at once" reference, as this pertains to being able to directly control your physical body and maintain your dream state by controlling the chemical your brain releases during REM to induce sleep paralysis. This is a highly complex task but one that some lucid dreamers have mastered. Most lucid dreamers will not even know how to do this, it took me 15 years of dreaming lucidly before I could do it, it just happened. The rest of this portion basically states that you can make your dream whatever you want, you just have to do reality checks often. It takes a lot of discipline to do it, but anyone can do it over time, and sometimes a person will do it on accident, freak out a bit, and that's why we have this song!
It is interesting as this song basically throws out all this terminology and all these great lyrics for us to interpret. Since very few people (overall) actually pursue lucidity and encourage it, most people aren't aware of what it entails and the effects of it's experience... I encourage anyone who wants to learn more to research it.
@KLH I had to respond I hope you receive this. I was so inspired by this song, I wrote a three page paper comments interpretation of the lyrics as I beleive....my paper is identical to your interpretation.....exactly. I think to be able to interpret this as so, a person must have a higher level of consciousness to begin with. I treasure your response because it is rare to interact or witness another person with this ability. It is a choice to accept your higher self and explore it thereby gaining control of...
@KLH I had to respond I hope you receive this. I was so inspired by this song, I wrote a three page paper comments interpretation of the lyrics as I beleive....my paper is identical to your interpretation.....exactly. I think to be able to interpret this as so, a person must have a higher level of consciousness to begin with. I treasure your response because it is rare to interact or witness another person with this ability.
It is a choice to accept your higher self and explore it thereby gaining control of the ego self, therefor attains a higher level consciousness. Simple as that. Bless you.
@KLH I love your interpretation Kel, wherever you are. Thank you for writing it
@KLH I love your interpretation Kel, wherever you are. Thank you for writing it
@KLH I absolutely agree! I was just telling my husband to at when I was in high school and first heard this song I experienced it from the perspective of a parent consoling a child who had awoken from a dream or nightmare. Once I was older I understood it as lucid dreaming. Only recently did I listen to this song and hear this new “dimension” to the lyrics. I absolutely think it’s meant to be this way. I even feel like you could listen to the first verse thinking of a child and parent, the second verse and think...
@KLH I absolutely agree! I was just telling my husband to at when I was in high school and first heard this song I experienced it from the perspective of a parent consoling a child who had awoken from a dream or nightmare. Once I was older I understood it as lucid dreaming. Only recently did I listen to this song and hear this new “dimension” to the lyrics. I absolutely think it’s meant to be this way. I even feel like you could listen to the first verse thinking of a child and parent, the second verse and think of learning to lucid dream while also mastering manifestation in the reality as well, then the final verse brings to mind angels watching over us or the collective unconsciousness of other beings, loved ones and ancestors guiding us through the process of life and especially death (or the reconnection to our real lives). I’m glad it resonated this way with others as well and was pleased to see your interpretation.