Ok, so this is what I drew from it after reading Thinker1's and ThisUser's interpretation:
"The unsettled mind is at times an ally,
Leaving the senses to fend for them selves"
-Alright I think this is about a kind of uncertainty about our lives that we have in the back of our minds. A kind of emptiness that drives us to seek the truth; so that would be consider "an ally." and then the second part about the senses fending for themselves is about how this uncertainty and incompleteness is almost instinctual and aside from higher thought we seek the truth naturally.
"All rise, I fall,
Time feels like a midnight ride,
Finality waits outside,
Weeping in perplexity's arms,
Curessing our smiles inside,"
The first line im not so sure about. But the part about the midnight right is this: our understanding of time in our current reality feels like a midnight ride. Midnight being a time when people are usually asleep; which goes back to the REM and the unsettled mind. "Finality waits outside," meaning our final destination or "afterlife" waits outside of this dream, once we wake up. and then the last two lines, i think are referring to the immense confusion that it causes us, and how it's just easier to smile and enjoy this "reality" that we are in now instead trying to understand it all.
"About beta carotine and theta waves"
-Ok so ThisUser said that beta carotine was used in the development of vitamin A in the body; the part that we branch off is this. Vitamin A, aside from what he/she says is does, also is important for vision. The whole eat carrots or go blind. This is because vitamin A deficiency can lead to deterioration of the retina. So, i think this is used as a metaphor to seeing the truth, or opening our eyes. The part about the Thetawaves is a bit more complicated, in my opinion. Thetawaves are waves that are present in the brain during REM, or rapid eye motion which is the deepest sleep that we can achieve. So going off of what Thinker1 said, life is like a dream a really intense REM dream, and eventually we are going to wake up. That's why we have the "unsettled mind," because our senses realize something is wrong and that maybe this isn't reality.
thats all i got haha. read Thinker1 and ThisUsers posts first, it might help you understand mine.
Ok, so this is what I drew from it after reading Thinker1's and ThisUser's interpretation:
"The unsettled mind is at times an ally, Leaving the senses to fend for them selves"
-Alright I think this is about a kind of uncertainty about our lives that we have in the back of our minds. A kind of emptiness that drives us to seek the truth; so that would be consider "an ally." and then the second part about the senses fending for themselves is about how this uncertainty and incompleteness is almost instinctual and aside from higher thought we seek the truth naturally.
"All rise, I fall, Time feels like a midnight ride, Finality waits outside, Weeping in perplexity's arms, Curessing our smiles inside,"
-Ok so ThisUser said that beta carotine was used in the development of vitamin A in the body; the part that we branch off is this. Vitamin A, aside from what he/she says is does, also is important for vision. The whole eat carrots or go blind. This is because vitamin A deficiency can lead to deterioration of the retina. So, i think this is used as a metaphor to seeing the truth, or opening our eyes. The part about the Thetawaves is a bit more complicated, in my opinion. Thetawaves are waves that are present in the brain during REM, or rapid eye motion which is the deepest sleep that we can achieve. So going off of what Thinker1 said, life is like a dream a really intense REM dream, and eventually we are going to wake up. That's why we have the "unsettled mind," because our senses realize something is wrong and that maybe this isn't reality.
thats all i got haha. read Thinker1 and ThisUsers posts first, it might help you understand mine.