According to this song, our dreams and subconsciousness are the key to what's going to happen in the future. Loss, grief and death are the main subjects of the album and Dream Oblivion reproduces a long dream - it's not so much a metaphor for death, as it is for an obsessive feeling of doom. You are having a dream of nightmarish pictures, until you finally realize, that you're actually seeing the future.
Source: Bulgarian "Pro-Rock" Magazine, #67, March 2010
[Since the article was in Bulgarian, this is my translation, not his exact words in English, but you get the meaning.]
Mikael Stanne:
According to this song, our dreams and subconsciousness are the key to what's going to happen in the future. Loss, grief and death are the main subjects of the album and Dream Oblivion reproduces a long dream - it's not so much a metaphor for death, as it is for an obsessive feeling of doom. You are having a dream of nightmarish pictures, until you finally realize, that you're actually seeing the future.
Source: Bulgarian "Pro-Rock" Magazine, #67, March 2010 [Since the article was in Bulgarian, this is my translation, not his exact words in English, but you get the meaning.]