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The lyrical themes of this song stem from a crazy dream I had. I have only ever once had a true Lucid Dream, which prompted me to write this song.

In my dream, I was in a metropolitan landscape, underneath a bridge, and all of a sudden, a dragon appeared and began destroying the bridge. I began to film this with my phone, since I was bewildered to see a mythical creature in real life. Unfortunately, this somehow? drew the dragon's attention and I had to run away. Suddenly, the dragon disappeared and as I was running away, some CIA agents in suits began chasing me as I looked for a way to escape.

I came to a lake where I was able to get on a Jetski and escape. But unfortunately, the agents caught up with me. I had a wild theory that the agents had created the dragon in a lab and it had escaped, and I had footage. For that reason I was being pursued. Eventually I ended up in a wind-tunnel like concrete structure and the agents caught up with me once more.

I told them that I had backed up the footage to the internet and if anything happened to me, I would immediately release the footage on the internet exposing the conspiracy, which would result in governmental collapse. All of a sudden the dream changed, and I was in a shopping centre. I noticed at this point that something was not quite right and came to the realisation that I was dreaming.

At this point, I began to trial a few things since I identified that I was in control of the dream. I began destroying the shopping centre with flames from my hands. I began to fly above the clouds. I never felt so exhilarated and powerful in my waking life. I began to grow to the size of a giant. All of a sudden I became so gigantic that I burst through the glass domed shopping centre and could see a land of crystalline skyscrapers stretching miles. I began to destroy them with my hands of fire. After all, I knew it was not real and a dream. Then I began to wake up, and the sky cracked and collapsed on top of me.

With this imagery I attempted to design album artwork to reflect the fantastical nature of my dream using AI image generation.

One of my all-time favourite movies is Christopher Nolan's "Inception", so naturally some allusions to this movie ended up coming into the lyrics of the song.

Originally in 2020 when I wrote this song, the lyrics were entirely different. Like many others at the time, my plans for international had been well-and-truly cancelled due to the emergence of COVID. The lyrics were considerably more depressing and focused on feeling trapped and robbed of a gap year that I had worked so hard to achieve, after 5 years of medical studies that were incredibly taxing on my mental health. Feeling burnt out, I was unable to travel due to strict governmental regulations worldwide which influenced the preliminary version of this song. As this era passed, the lyrical themes no longer provided a message that I wished to present in my music. For that reason I changed the lyrics to reflect a crazy surreal experience that I had in the world of dreams. 
lyrics
LYRICS:
Fading rays of daylight
Fall into the dark night
Enter the wormhole
Subdivide my soul

Can you feel the change, there's something not quite right in this vicinity
Loss of gravity, I'm soaring through the skies freely
Hands of scorching heat, I lay waste to the diamond skyline pillars
False reality, the sun sets in the east

Open up your eyes to the possibility that we are stuck inside a dream right now
Now my subconscious will turn on me, the lightning storm approaches
Monsters shift their piercing gaze, I flee, the hills inside my skin engorge, remember
I'm the one who built this world, expand beyond a thousand peaks, I stand

Time eternal inside my universe
Lucid architect, I cannot be stopped by projections

Cracks in the sky, an earthquake is shaking me
Sound the alarm, I hope I'm not awakening
Breaking the glass of the lucid dream

Lucid Dream

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The project that began as music therapy and quickly became something more...

Inspiration: Knowing that for as much as I need it, therapy HURTS!

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LYRICS

The mirror's harsh reflection
Reveals my true complexion
A twisted self-perception
A life of self-rejection
The venom courses through me
The poison's hard to undo
This path of self-destruction
Is caustic therapy

Staring at the mirror, a reflection so unclear
Corroded by the demons, that I've harboured year by year
The scars run deeper than the eye can see
Looking inside of me, feels like caustic therapy

The pain, it never fades
The voices, they won't be swayed
I'm trapped within this cage
Of self-inflicted rage

Caustic therapy, burning through my veins
Acidic remedy, for all this inner pain
Caustic therapy, a bitter pill to take
Dissolving every part of me, for sanity's sake

Peeling back the layers, of this fractured disguise
Unveiling all the flaws, that I've been trying to hide
The truth is like a dagger, piercing through my heart
From the inside out, it's tearing me apart,

The pain, it never fades
The voices, won't be swayed
I'm trapped within this cage
Of self-inflicted rage

Caustic therapy, burning through my veins
Acidic remedy, for all this inner pain
Caustic therapy, a bitter pill to take
Dissolving every part of me, for sanity's sake

The cycle never ends, this vicious self-abuse
I'm my own worst enemy, with nothing left to lose
But maybe in the ashes, I'll find a way to break free
From this...

Caustic therapy, burning through my veins
Acidic remedy, for all this inner pain
Caustic therapy, a bitter pill to take
Dissolving every part of me, for sanity's sake
Caustic therapy

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HIVEMIND X is the solo project of Dr Hamish Mackay: Songwriter, Guitarist, Vocalist, Bassist, and Music Producer from Melbourne, Australia. His original music is a unique experimental blend of Progressive Rock incorporating multi-genre influences of Metal, Indie, Folk, Classical, Ambient, Electronic and Orchestral music.

Lucid Dream - HIVEMIND X

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