Synethesia
03-31-2003, 02:48 PM
"A child's rhyme stuck in my head, saying life is but a dream, I spent so many years in question to find I've known this all along."
Well I don't have time to go through every single post to see if anybody has brought this up yet so I'll just come out with it. I've been listening to a lot of Bill Hick's, I mean a lot. And I found one experpt about how we are all one and the body is an illusion because God does not create anything that can be destroyed. And then he mentions the childs rhyme "Row row row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream." We all know it. But It makes so much sense. Which is exactly what Maynard is talking about.
Well if you've ever taken psychodelics like psilocybin in mushrooms then you understand the concept of lost reality and the connection between everything. If you are thinking about experiencing this for yourself make sure first that you don't have history of mental illness in your family or possible underlying psychiatric problems that could be surfaced by the substance. Furthermore, make sure you gather extensive knowledge in mushroom identification and dosage.
Ok on with the interpretation: This song made no sense to me until I went into the world of psilocybin myself a while back. The references to colors suddenly made sense "bright and shimmering." "Like phosphorescent desert buttons."
"On my back and tumbling down that hole and back again."
Well like Bill Hicks talks about in his bit about mushrooms he talks about laying in a field of green grass for five hours and God [the three eyed face] raining gifts upon him. The feeling of falling and returning and pulsing is also a common sensation I feel when on psilocybin.
"Came out to watch you play, why are running away"
Well the feelings of disassociation with people are common, often times you need reassurance that a friend is who they are. "So glad its over" could be reffering to the trip. "I missed you so much" =reality. Shrowding all the ground around me is this holy crow above me" Well, in the deserts of California there are lots of crows, and everything that you focus on seems to have a profundity about it, and then the reference to color:
"Black as holes within our memory, and blue as our new second sun."
Ok heres where it gets really cool
"I stick my hand into his shadow and pull the pieces from the sand, try and attempt to reassemble...to see just who i might have been but I do not recognize the vessel..."
Ok so he searching for himself, his reality again but what he comes up with now is not what it used to be. Now that his reality is shattered he cannot put it back together.
"...But the eyes look so familiar..."
A friend of mines who recently tripped reported seeing everything round as eyes.
I see the end as a conversation with his sober state and his altered state. His sober self follows the teachings of dogma and society, his altered self follows the trail of smoke and reason. Notice he says "chasing the tail" to refer to dogma, suggesting that following dogma is like a dog chasing his tail, it just gets you going in a circle. Where as a trail of smoke will lead you up and away and will eventually just disperse into the air and leave you in a million places if you attempt to follow it. So each side of himself thought that the other had run away towards its own persuits, but when he opens his eye, there they both are. "I opened my eye and there we were."
Sound Accurate?
Well I don't have time to go through every single post to see if anybody has brought this up yet so I'll just come out with it. I've been listening to a lot of Bill Hick's, I mean a lot. And I found one experpt about how we are all one and the body is an illusion because God does not create anything that can be destroyed. And then he mentions the childs rhyme "Row row row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream." We all know it. But It makes so much sense. Which is exactly what Maynard is talking about.
Well if you've ever taken psychodelics like psilocybin in mushrooms then you understand the concept of lost reality and the connection between everything. If you are thinking about experiencing this for yourself make sure first that you don't have history of mental illness in your family or possible underlying psychiatric problems that could be surfaced by the substance. Furthermore, make sure you gather extensive knowledge in mushroom identification and dosage.
Ok on with the interpretation: This song made no sense to me until I went into the world of psilocybin myself a while back. The references to colors suddenly made sense "bright and shimmering." "Like phosphorescent desert buttons."
"On my back and tumbling down that hole and back again."
Well like Bill Hicks talks about in his bit about mushrooms he talks about laying in a field of green grass for five hours and God [the three eyed face] raining gifts upon him. The feeling of falling and returning and pulsing is also a common sensation I feel when on psilocybin.
"Came out to watch you play, why are running away"
Well the feelings of disassociation with people are common, often times you need reassurance that a friend is who they are. "So glad its over" could be reffering to the trip. "I missed you so much" =reality. Shrowding all the ground around me is this holy crow above me" Well, in the deserts of California there are lots of crows, and everything that you focus on seems to have a profundity about it, and then the reference to color:
"Black as holes within our memory, and blue as our new second sun."
Ok heres where it gets really cool
"I stick my hand into his shadow and pull the pieces from the sand, try and attempt to reassemble...to see just who i might have been but I do not recognize the vessel..."
Ok so he searching for himself, his reality again but what he comes up with now is not what it used to be. Now that his reality is shattered he cannot put it back together.
"...But the eyes look so familiar..."
A friend of mines who recently tripped reported seeing everything round as eyes.
I see the end as a conversation with his sober state and his altered state. His sober self follows the teachings of dogma and society, his altered self follows the trail of smoke and reason. Notice he says "chasing the tail" to refer to dogma, suggesting that following dogma is like a dog chasing his tail, it just gets you going in a circle. Where as a trail of smoke will lead you up and away and will eventually just disperse into the air and leave you in a million places if you attempt to follow it. So each side of himself thought that the other had run away towards its own persuits, but when he opens his eye, there they both are. "I opened my eye and there we were."
Sound Accurate?