Sometimes I want to dream forever 
Just close my eyes and enter the world my brain has created only for me 
Where the white rabbit can’t decide which way to go, 
so he just moves in every direction at once 
Where the omnipresent voice inside my head is finally put on silent 
and no one tries to hurt my heart 
Where all my problems and responsibilities have dissolved into nothing 
and I can just be 

The world in my dreams doesn’t make any sense 
but neither does the real world, 
so what does it matter? 
If you really think about it, 
real life is much more absurd than any dream you could ever have 
Just imagine the you from your dreams suddenly finding themselves on Planet Earth, 
in between wars, intrigues and greediness
Why are they all behaving this way?, your dream self asks 
Do you have an answer to explain it to yourself? 

Whenever I’m dreaming, my current life stops existing to me 
or maybe even to anyone at all 
Every time I fall asleep, I die 
In my dream world, I instead relive everything I remember from my past and my future 
All these precious memories that my brain has worked hard to separate 
from the pain and suffering connected to them 
So wonderful, so peaceful 
As a child, you were always so carefree 
and your entire childhood used to be just like a perfect dream without any hardships 
Don’t you remember? 

Wouldn’t you like to go back to that time 
and to the person you used to be?
Wouldn’t you like to just leave your complicated life behind?

You can if you want to 
Just stay here with me forever
and live your very own perfect dream life

Home? 
What about home? 
I don’t know what you mean 
This is home now 
What used to be my home in the real world doesn’t matter to me here and now 
I don’t care about where I was born and raised, 
or where I will die one day, 
because my brain is all of these things for me as well: 
My birthplace, my home and my grave 

As an eternal galaxy of its own, my brain is everything I really am 
and everything that actually exists to me, 
my physical body and what’s known to you as the real world are nothing more 
than a disguise for what’s beyond our basic visual and haptic perception, 
a much deeper consciousness of everlasting existence 

Physical matters don’t mean anything to me at all,

because I now know that they’re merely a three-dimensional projection, 
a simulation to hold us captive 
and make us believe that it’s the dream world that is fake and unrealistic in its nature,

to keep us from trying to stay inside our dream worlds forever

But I have now found my truth and the place where I belong: 
Where I want to be is within me 
Where I need to be is me 
I myself am my only home 

People who have died on Planet Earth still exist in the dream world, 
because they are never actually gone from your memories and from your heart 
It’s a cruel act to take somebody away from your life forever 
with no way of ever getting them back, 
or for a concept like a limited lifetime and the awareness of an eventual death 
to even exist at all 
Have you ever thought about how odd it is that everybody will have to die one day 
and how this fact just seems like the orderly reality for us? 
Have you ever asked yourself where people go after they die, 
or if they even go anywhere at all? 

(reversed)
Heaven? Hell? Reincarnation? Oblivion? What do you believe in?

In a galaxy that’s said to be as spacious as ours, 
don’t you find it strange that after a certain amount of time, 
each of us will have to leave again?


The dream world works entirely different: 
There’s no expiry date for you, or for anybody and anything else, 
and no earthly limitations like the ones you have learned to know all these years
Everything here is forever 
And with the countless possibilities of what you can do and have control over, 
you become the god of your very own flawless world 

Wait...

Do you want to wake up?

Do you really want to leave this place?

If you ask me, 
I would never want to leave here

Imagine how great it would be to be trapped inside an eternal dream forever

No way of escaping,

because there’s no reason you would ever want to escape

Because this is the perfect world

I really never want to stop dreaming... 
Will you stay here dreaming with me? 

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