Room Full Of Mirrors

This is one of my favorite hendrix songs. I love the way it metaphorically describes how self-centered we are, and that when we can stop being so self-centered, we gain the ability to percieve the beauty of everything around us.

There is a spoken version of this song on one of my many bootleg Hendrix tapes. The spoken version sounds very strange. He sounds like he is on acid or some other hallucinogenic drug. He says things like "somebody help me, somebody please help me" and "tell this idiot to get the hell out of me and get me the hell out of this god damned mirror room". This tape is very emotional and it seems like Hendrix is crying out for someone to help him. At one point he says "I turn to the world but what do they have to offer me but pats on the back". I recommend you get this tape and listen to it because it is very interesting.

i heard that this song was about the first time hendrix did acid

This song set it off son,let me tell you. It's about Hendrix feeling trapped in his god-like status,and that he can't escape himself,or his mobster of a manager.

amazing track, so trippy, love it, wonderful stuff. as for the lyrics, fxcking turtle got it down perfectly.

andiburns, its called Eyes of Imagination that one your talkin about it good:) this song is not about his Acid trips, its about what coolspif said, this is my Fav Jimi song, the movement of it is like Funk and Disco, the Structer is Blues, the sound is Psychadelic , and the playing is Quasi Classical, what more could you ask for :) :)

Nah, it's not about how self-centered we are. It's about ego death. It's about letting go of our mind projecting ourself out onto the world around us. If you are too wrapped up in your own sense of self, all you do is see your own ideas about things in the world around you; just like in Taoism, you see the manifestations instead of the mystery itself. Using LSD, it is much easier to let go of your own sense of self and realize that the idea of an individual "I" is just something made up by your own ego, that all of your emotions come from the same place (see bold as love). Once you let go of that, smashing the mirrors, you can really see the world for all that it truly is, without projecting yourself onto it. Just fully experiencing and sensing it finally, living in the moment at all times.

I think that bravosfan take the bull by the horns. Ego death. I think that this interpretation is all righ about essential Hendrix song. But Ego is dying everytime really , you can observe that fenomenos outside without mind interpretation when you are relaxed. The concience gives you the world as it is. It´s a falace of freudomarxism that states you can not access to reality with your senses. Contrary to this, you indeed have access to realtiy with your reason and conscience and besides you have the power to modify the reality only with your conscience and your mind. Therefore it´s a radical different point of view about wolrld and knowledge. But in mi opinion Modernism, since Descartes philosophy is as a whole perspective a big mistake and Hendrix and contracultural movement were cought in this false teory of knowlegde.

[Edit: In order to prefix and concern what is idealism or romantiscim as a philosophy of arts, I have to say that all artists play the game with the security of to go further in his skills because the idealism is like a poison that energized you and gives you t]