Infinite Dreams

Listen to the song closely and towards the end there is a riff that they repeat a couple of times at the climax of the song that Papa Roach stole from them and made into their song Last Resort, which blows, and the only reason it is good is because they are actually playing Iron Maiden. Those assholes! (and their music sucks, too!)

I have an intuition that this song represents a man who is plagued by visions from God, concerning the fate of humanity. As this album is a cohesively designed (concept album), the man eventually goes to a sordid town (the one from "Can I Play with Madness") to forewarn its people, acting as a prophet. In my interpretation, the latter part of this song depicts the thoughts of this soon-to-be prophet, as he resists his calling, playing off his visions as mere recurrent dreams. Eventually, he realizes there is too much there to be coincidence, but still has difficulty accepting his fate. At the end, he becomes scared, not wanting, though slowly accepting, his destiny. However, at this point, he is still disquieted by the fate of the world, wishing for a more utopian reality, where humans could try again and again until they get it right.

It's good to see that I'm not the only one that considers this song Iron Maiden's best. For them, it's understated, almost a ballad.
"It can't be all coincidence, too many things are evident," sounds like a man who wants to convince himself that there is a God after all, despite his doubts. At the time I started listening to this song (a long, long time ago) I was dealing with my own doubts. My agnosticism has grown to something approaching atheism, but this song remains a favorite of mine. Steve Harris is a smart guy, and Iron Maiden are brilliant.

i hate to make such a moronic comment, but this is simply the greatest song of all time, and it will be played at my funeral as they lower my casket into the earth.

it just seems to be a postulative wanderlust as undertaken by somebody plagued by horrible dreams which may either be horrible due to their nightmarishness, or because of the dreamer seeing truths about the universe and starting to find themselves inadequately prepared for what the is out there, what they've tapped into.

It seems that I relate a lot of Maidens songs to books or poetry most of the time. This song reminds me of the novel "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury. This reason I came up with that is because in the novel, a women by the name of Mildred is not in reality. Her character is basically "dreaming" throughout the book because she brainwashed from videos and randon images.

I agree that it ties into the concept of the album, a prophet being shown visions from God. On another level it could relate to some real world event of Steve Harris's, I guess only he could say. Having had strange and similar experiences to the character in the song, I guess it kind of takes on that meaning to me, whereas it might simply be pure fiction.

I think that this song may be about "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H.P. Lovecraft. I will let the rest of you look it up rather than try to describe it. (I have a bad habit of writing short essays on this site.) I was going to leave this comment perhaps a year ago, and instead made a similar one on Starblind. While Starblind does remind me of the same story (which I read for the first time after having listened to both songs), Infinite Dreams is much more likely to have been inspired by it.

This is the most all encompassing song ever. The music and vocals are excellent and powerful (I get all emotional everytime he leaves with "Again and again and again..." because it sounds like a plea). I think it's all about thought and god and good and evil and perceptions... it's about almost anything, no wrong word almost everything...

p.s. good to see not everyone who comments on this site are idiots!

I believe that the entire album was suposed to have been based upon Orson Scott Card's book "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son."