Nice Dream

thats...'nice' HijackedAffairs XD..I don't think I can agree with any of freud's theories or an Oedipus like situation ..it's creepy thinking that one of my fav songs from radiohead is about a [dream] about a son wanting to kill his father and marry his mother shudders.

I love how Radiohead doesn't just create songs with catchy riffs, tunes etc but they have lyrics with meaningful messages, that question things about life.

I think this song is about a person getting carried away with their ideals. They don’t see the reality of the situation but rather disguise or ‘improve’ the reality of the situation with lies or assumptions that paint pretty images about people, people’s actions and their life to make themselves feel better etc.

They feel as though they can continue being happy or positive about themself and their life by creating and (make) believing in their exaggerated truths. For example he attaches adverbs (assumed ideals) like ‘protect’, ‘love’, ‘gave’ to these people’s actions which give him ‘sunshine’ and make him ‘happy'.

But even though they can consume themselves in this state of a ‘make-believe', the ‘nice dream’ phrase at the end of every verse or ‘story’ sounds patronizing and it’s as though his conscience is telling him to wake up. He knows conciously that he's lying to himsef by omission. But instead of opening his eyes to the truth, he creates more glamourized or falsified realities to quieten his conscience, with the second stanza or ‘exaggerated reality’ coming in.

Up until then the song was played in a slow place with violins and Yorke sings it in a soothing way to create that ‘dream-like’ essence to the situations, but then when the last two lines come in, it's as though it’s sang by his conscience, and he loses cover and lets reality cave in. I love how in the bridge, the guitar solo that follows is played in a frenzy to highlight the state of confusion, anger etc

But, it’s a temporarily relapse as he returns to that state of believing in what he wants to believe if it makes him feel happier, when the song resumes wih the original slow pace and with the soothing vocals.

It takes a lot more effort to lie to yourself and to believe in your manufactured truths, so that’s where the question of whether you’re able to or “strong enough” to keep doing it to yourself comes in.

Anyways, that’s my 2 cents.