Daydream by Joobie

This is part of a double EP "Nightmare & Daydream".

The story/theme of the album progresses track by track and is as follows.

Track 1 - Tired Eyes Trainstop: You are awake. You hear the echos of the trains going through tunnels. You wait at an ethereal trainstop to get on the train to Dreamland. A place in between wakefulness, and slumber. A place to get from one to the other.

Track 2 - Destination Dreamland: You are asleep. You are on the train to Dreamland, asleep but not yet dreaming. A slow melancholy train ride, always taken alone. Then you arrive at your destination, Dreamland.

Track 3 - Goodbye Ground: You're suddenly in an old family home from childhood. You walk out the door and on to the streets. You start walking, then running. A crescendo draws near as you sprint down the road. Your feet lift off the ground and you take off. You fly through the air, very calmly, just enjoying the moment. You let your self dive towards the ground, with no fear. Then, right at the last moment, you smoothly swoop back up with all that momentum carrying to higher into the air. For a moment, your mind wanders to all the noise you left behind, back on the ground, and back at your childhood home. The thought is painful, but you realize life goes on, and there will always be noise. You know you will have to deal with it later, and that this moment of flight will come to an end. You are ok with this. It's the balancing act that never ends. You slowly land, walk back in the door to that old house, and lay down in bed.

Track 4 - Succubi In Sunglasses: You awake, instantly feeling like something or someone is in the room. You are paralyzed and can't move, petrified in bed. You are visited by succubi in sunglasses. They are beautiful, but definitely not good for you. Only after becoming bored of you do they leave. You sit up, let out a sigh, and wipe the sweat dripping from your forehead. You lay back down.

Track 5 - Lucid Lullaby: Though still uneasy from the events prior, the air is quiet. The discomfort slowly fades. You hear the train horn blowing in the distance. The wheels turn and the engine chugs. It's clear that you are still Dreamland. Slowly the room around you dissipates. Nothing left but a black void and a spot light on you. You flow through The Void like it was a smooth current in an otherwise still body of water. The spotlight follows. The sounds of the Tired Eyes Train are still there in the distance while you aimlessly float through nothing. It's blissful, you feel as though you could fall asleep. But you are already in Dreamland, so there is no where to go. So you continue to float, and float. Deeper down a river into The Void, deeper and deeper into Dreamland.

Track 6 - REM-Cycle Repeat: While you continue to float, your consciousness empty, your mind decides to collect, clean, and sort data gathered while awake.

Track 7 - Exhausted Elmeria: You are suddenly conscious again. You don't know how long you've been floating down the river into The Void. You no longer hear the distant noises from the train. You wonder what you have missed while you were floating further into nothing. Your mind goes to ones you love outside of Dreamland. You become concerned you'll never stop floating, that you'll leave Dreamland. What if you're stuck here? You can't just throw everything away and float forever. How will you fix all the things outside of Dreamland if you never leave. How will you care for the people you love, people who are tired while you sleep? You don't know what to do, but you know you'll be leaving Dreamland soon. You have to. You continue to float down the river and hope it lead to a way out of Dreamland.

Track 8 - Daydream: You wash up at a beach. The sound of waves crashing over and over again fills you, completely surrounded and engulfed by the sound of the ocean. The sounds are so loud, it reminds you of silence because every other sound that could possibly be heard is completely annihilated by the unending force of The Ocean. You feel content. You know now you can leave. You enjoy your last moments of silence in Dreamland. Then, accompanied by a quick flash of light that comes from somewhere you don't know, you feel your body sit up. You are awake.

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