Silent Lucidity Lyrics
My husband was killed August 24 2011. I rarely dream but when I did it was always the same dream, him dying basically the way he did. My husband always told me not to worry he was always careful. Careful had nothing to do with it...it was more of a wrong place wrong time. Since then I have had no more dreams I remember but hope that what I am doing is how he would like me to proceed in life. Today I went and signed for my house. As I was signing I was wondering if I was doing the right thing. As I started to drive away from the title company Silent Lucidity came on the radio. Whatever it may really mean, to me it meant that my husband is with me and watching over me and making sure I'm doing the right thing. Not that my crying is ever going to stop, but at least I found some comfort is knowing that he is still with me, keeping an eye on me.
(((Hug)))
(((Hug)))
I am so sorry. What a strange story. Are you OK now?
I am so sorry. What a strange story. Are you OK now?
That is the most heartbreaking story, yet somehow hopeful. Sure, it could've been a funny little coincidence that that song came on the radio right after you signed for your house, and no one will ever know for sure if it was or wasn't, but wow, I was bawling when I read that. Good luck to you.
That is the most heartbreaking story, yet somehow hopeful. Sure, it could've been a funny little coincidence that that song came on the radio right after you signed for your house, and no one will ever know for sure if it was or wasn't, but wow, I was bawling when I read that. Good luck to you.
Esenthiel's right. This song is entirely about experiencing a lucid dream. All the lyrics refer to it. In short, lucid dreaming is when you realize, within your own dream, that you are dreaming. When that happens, you can literally take control of your own dream and do with it what you want. I've experienced a few of these myself, although I don't study it as much as most people. It's quite an interesting experience. Within a dream, you can literally do whatever you want. "The walls you built within come tumbling down and a new world will begin."
@KresentPhresh Essentially that is true, but not always. I have experienced lucid dreaming in several forms and in most you can control it, but in others you can't.
@KresentPhresh Essentially that is true, but not always. I have experienced lucid dreaming in several forms and in most you can control it, but in others you can't.
To further explain what I mean I will share the one case that I have experienced where I had no control over it and what a hell the experience was. I do not remember much more than the events themselves but they are the important bits too. To put it short, in my dream I was fighting someone (don't remember who) overlooking some the sea in some ruins. I was actually losing in the...
To further explain what I mean I will share the one case that I have experienced where I had no control over it and what a hell the experience was. I do not remember much more than the events themselves but they are the important bits too. To put it short, in my dream I was fighting someone (don't remember who) overlooking some the sea in some ruins. I was actually losing in the beginning before I entered the state of lucid dreaming and realized that I was dreaming. As you would expect, I did take control at first and right before I woke I actually held that person down with a knife to their throat. Seeing the situation for what it was, I was actually about to end it, but I couldn't. I am in no way programmed to kill, even in self defense, so I dropped the knife, began to cry (in my dream) just watching as this other person picked up the knife and came at me. Knowing it was a dream didn't matter much at this point, that the person I was fighting wasn't real didn't matter either. In the end I was killed and woke up in what has so far been the worst nightmare in my life. I was traumatized by my own self and was crying for a long time after that. Even to this day, thinking about it, I still end up feeling just as I did then and do not understand just what happened.
But it is true that lucid dreaming do (I believe) in most cases just bring about the chance to create a sort of personal paradise or a chance to live a life as you want to. It's the times that your own personality, throughts, morals and ethics fail you that you end up in the nightmares.
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:)
This, could do well as a blueprint of the music video! I really touch and love on your story man! Really moving. ;')
This, could do well as a blueprint of the music video! I really touch and love on your story man! Really moving. ;')
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...
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.
This song is absolutely a classic. The song is sultry, mesmerizing, soothing and spiritual...The Great songs, I mean the really Great songs in all of history have one thing in common...They evoke emotion. This song is no exception. It is both complex and simplistic. It is a multiplex of meanings as well as emotions, as evidenced by the diverse comments from a variety of individuals. The most obvious meaning of course, is the lucid dream (consciously controlled dream) But I believe this is much more than that, (whether intended or not). For some it is accepting death, watching a child sleeping, coming to terms with our own mortality or breaking down walls for personal growth. This song has definitely evoked emotion. I have had many fantasy while listening to this song. Thoughts of a love lost with a hope of rebirth, being comforted by my spouse, knowing the heavenly father or seeing clarity within my sons eyes (the eyes are the silent souls that can speak and penetrate us and others to the deepest core of our own being, our own existence) I have had changing experiences throughout my life and can find different meanings within this song depending where I am within my life (thoughts of past, present and future) The song is like a cloud, it is so often at just a glance only a cloud, but then when we let the mind wander and search we can find the beauty and forms that a cloud may take and to our wonderment we see intricacies and forms that become much more than the cloud itself (we now see through child's eyes). How wonderful to have a song composed within my life that so resembles art that it makes me weep, smile and yes stay in quiet clarity or best said in Silent Lucidity.
@Mopaga I am just finding this post from nearly five years ago. Thank you for writing the words that I am too tired to compose. I particularly like your comparison to beauty in the clouds. My brother used to play this song on his guitar all of the time. Missing him a lot right now.
@Mopaga I am just finding this post from nearly five years ago. Thank you for writing the words that I am too tired to compose. I particularly like your comparison to beauty in the clouds. My brother used to play this song on his guitar all of the time. Missing him a lot right now.
We may lose our loved ones to Death, but they will always be right next to us in Spirit.
I first heard this song sung by a girl at a karaoke bar. Someone whispered to me while she was singing, "She's got AIDS, yknow." The song meant even more to me then.
Incredible.
The lucid dreaming interpretations above are of course correct. Guitarist Chris DeGarmo said to Kerrang! Magazine in June 1990: "'Silent Lucidity' is probably one of the most genuinely out there things we've ever done. It's about what they call 'lucid dreaming'. Or 'dream-control'. Basically, just opening up the doors to your subconscious mind, and learning how to master your dreams. Actually be able to steer and control them."
many people might say this song is about dreams, which i guess is correct.
to me, this song is about embracing death. not so much as in a BOC "Don't Fear The Reaper" kind of way.
it's about crossing over. i always regarded death more as just a prolonged sleep, the events of your life flickering like a film strip before your eyes.
this song could even be regarded as a message, from those who have gone before us, that there is nothing to fear, no pain. and that they are waiting on the other side to guide us.
This song grabbed me immediately the first time I heard it, which was quite recently. My son and I always shared a love of music, bringing things to each other to rave about them and enjoy. We even had a "song" which had seen us through a hard time and meant a lot to both of us. He had it played at his wedding, when we danced the mother/groom dance.
This song grabbed me immediately the first time I heard it, which was quite recently. My son and I always shared a love of music, bringing things to each other to rave about them and enjoy. We even had a "song" which had seen us through a hard time and meant a lot to both of us. He had it played at his wedding, when we danced the mother/groom dance.
He committed suicide, almost three years ago, at only 27. This is not the first time that I felt he reached out to me through music....
He committed suicide, almost three years ago, at only 27. This is not the first time that I felt he reached out to me through music. In each instance, my exposure to the particular song was so random that I felt he had to have a hand in getting them in front of me. I am in pain every day, and I know I will be forever. But I really do think you hit the nail on the head, about it being a reach out from those who've gone before us, letting us know they'll be with us every day.
@roger wilco it's both really ... it's about coping with the death of someone close to you, by keeping them in your dreams through the literal concept of lucid dreaming.
@roger wilco it's both really ... it's about coping with the death of someone close to you, by keeping them in your dreams through the literal concept of lucid dreaming.
to Zenwizard, the (I) on the song is You-yourself...it's like a belief that all things have positive and negative; that in Physics, everything exist with it's counterpart and in Religion there's always the Good and the Evil... it's the same here; will you take the good- you or the bad- you... you want to live a fulfiiled life or a loser life... are you want to live in fear or live bravery...i'm smiling next o you,,,,
I used to have a recurring nightmare about death. I'd wake up every night and start crying. I had abusive parents and used to hide behind my bedroom door at night. My family thought very little of me. I became what they saw in me. By doing so, I became a master of illusion. A caring man with very special gifts let me know that I am never alone. He helped me to see that I can overcome this tragedy in my life, but I need to break down the walls I built within me and learn to trust him. Lucid dreams helped me to learn dream control and when I confront danger in my dreams I fly like a bird. He helped me to realize that my life dreams can become a reality. There is a message in the middle of the song where you here me crying out for help, my step-father's yelling "How dare you do that!", my mother states "Jack don't!", my father asks "What's that?" and my brother says "Don't be stupid!" My name is mentioned several times. This song is about my life.
That's a very intriguing take on the song. It makes me hesitant to contradict what you believe is said in the middle of the song (when there is a man speaking in a deep voice, then overlapping voices & such until you hear a woman gasp, "help me!"). Let the song work for you however you wish. The little things don't necessarily matter in the end! :)
That's a very intriguing take on the song. It makes me hesitant to contradict what you believe is said in the middle of the song (when there is a man speaking in a deep voice, then overlapping voices & such until you hear a woman gasp, "help me!"). Let the song work for you however you wish. The little things don't necessarily matter in the end! :)