I like this song a lot, but I mostly like the beginning of it. I've always associated the part with "when reality�is just light interpreted by your brain/ and if mine and your perceptions ain't one and the same/ which one of us is normal, which one is insane" with Plato's "Allegory of the cave".
He imagines a group of people who have always lived chained in a cave, facing a blank wall and with their back to the exit. These people used to watch shadows being projected on the wall by things passing in front of the cave (and behind them) - and they start to learn and define those objects. Anyway, the chains represent our senses, and the shadows on the wall are far from what reality really is, they are only perceptions of those prisoners.
So, influenced by our senses we can interpret the "light" in a different way - it's all a matter of perception rather one of right/wrong.
I like this song a lot, but I mostly like the beginning of it. I've always associated the part with "when reality�is just light interpreted by your brain/ and if mine and your perceptions ain't one and the same/ which one of us is normal, which one is insane" with Plato's "Allegory of the cave". He imagines a group of people who have always lived chained in a cave, facing a blank wall and with their back to the exit. These people used to watch shadows being projected on the wall by things passing in front of the cave (and behind them) - and they start to learn and define those objects. Anyway, the chains represent our senses, and the shadows on the wall are far from what reality really is, they are only perceptions of those prisoners. So, influenced by our senses we can interpret the "light" in a different way - it's all a matter of perception rather one of right/wrong.