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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Feb 10, 2014 ^^
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This video really spoke to an experience I had in my first year of university.
0:00 - 1:09 is a man living his life normally, neither particularly positive or negative emotions in his mind.
1:09 - 1:59 is him encountering a mind expanding substance. After this, he is seen scrutinizing the hills in the distance. This represents his contemplation, not just of life, but the nature of self, and this is where the danger starts. People who suffer this variant of derealization often experience questions like "what is the process that is doing the awareness of my thinking?", and perceive that the self is looking at itself. The key is the "it" in "itself", in which the sense of self becomes depersonalized and begins to be perceived as a mere object, rather than a person.
The bird represents this unbalanced awareness that comes from contemplating just one side of these questions, relying exclusively on drugs to enhance one's intellectual reach without the grounding in meditative concentration and emotional control. He attempts to run back to normality, but loses the race, and begins falling into derealization. His body dissolving represents ego-death.
He wakes up from his drug trip, and is now sober. However, he is still in the grips of derealization, and the perception of the self that he developed on the drugs is now a waking reality. The third eye represents the higher awareness that he is trapped in, and his body being the universe represents his lost sense of boundaries between self and the world. He looks in the mirror, and is baffled by his appearance. People who have derealization sometimes don't recognize their face in the mirror. His actions after this reflect a deeply terrorized man trying to escape a higher form of suffering.
He pulls out the drug that started this mess. Now, the first time, the drug was rainbow before it was applied to the floor, and then it glowed. Now the drug is glowing before being applied. This could symbolize his past experience with the drug, and if to say, "now he knows what to expect". This attempt to re-enter the higher state of consciousness is his courageous attempt to confront the cause of his derealization, and find a way to reconcile this higher perception of reality in such a way that he can still experience, and identify with, ordinary human emotions and perceptions.
His lionesque appearance represents his confidence in his certainty of self. In the end, all of the ideas he had about the nature of self, thought, and feeling all added up back to normality, and he feels empowered by having conquered such an eldritch terror. He takes a drag from a joint, confident in his ability to cruise the higher state. His dissolving represents a more peaceful and enjoyable dissolution of the ego.
The lionesque appearence being a sign of confidence was actually an interpretation offered by a friend, and it started me on the rest of the paragraph,. My original idea was much darker; that he regressed into a more pleasure/pain driven state as a way to escape from his higher consciousness. Alas, that's what ended up happening to me, and while the higher form of suffering no longer troubles me, sometimes I feel like my whole life is a dream that I'm trying to wake up from. >.>
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When I first tripped acid, this is the song that I had playing in my brain CONSTANTLY, like I could hear it regardless of what I was doing and it was cool as fuck honestly, love this song so much, hope y’all are doing good and remember whatever you’re going through will pass, love life, love those close to you, and leave the toxic people behind in your wake 🤙 peace and love friends
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I've listened to this hundreds of times but never viewed the comments.. finally a whole group of people who understand when I say " that guy is me ". I also happened upon this musical masterPEACE while under the influence of some fire ass needlepoint. Crazy how a song can have such a lasting effect on us. If this song touched you like it did me, then you remember exactly where you were the first time hearing it. They were happier times for me and hearing this song kinda takes me back there and I get that feeling again each time. Much much love to you all.
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My love was always by my side
My love was always by my side
My love was always by my side
And I don't know where to go
For all my life I've been so close
And I don't know where to go
For all my life I've been so close
And I don't know where to go
For all my life I've been so close
And I don't know where to go
For all my life I've been so close
And I don't know where to go
For all my life I've been so close
My love was always by my side
And I don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
And I don't know why
You don't call me right now
Don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
My love was always by my side
And I don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
And I don't know why
You don't call me right now
Don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
My love was always by my side
And I don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
And I don't know why
You don't call me right now
Don't know why
You don't like to be with me
In a sunny day
My love was always by my side
My love was always by my side
My love was always by my side
My love was always by my side
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@costinpeiu1829
5 years ago
I like to believe that everyone reading this is my friend. Peace from the Univers .
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