A Dream Within a Dream

Hi all,

I've been listening to The Alan Parsons Project this morning.

Here is the intro to 'A Dream Within a Dream'

I thought they were kind of cool and relevant.


"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not
thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to
adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.
Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental
health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the
confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I
captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within
a dream."

Well i dont know alan parson project(who are they really?) but i know the poem.

A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

You can recite E.A.P.?

I read that poem before.

Austin Powers!

Hey, I like EAP. That piece was from 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'

All songs are based on EAP:

A dream within a dream
The raven
The tell-tale heart
The cask of amontillado
Doctor Tarr and professor Fether
The Fall of the House of Usher

Really cool!

A dream within a dream
The raven
The tell-tale heart
The cask of amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher

I've read all of these.....I love them all...

My favorite would be The fall of the House of Usher, the imagery is perfect and the metaphor of the house, and what it represents is perfect...

I've got to re-read Poe with dreaming in mind... Wonder if that guy ever had any Lucid dreams?

Not sure, but he did have rabies... :D

once upon a midnight dreary,
while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'.
While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark,
suddenly there came a warning,
and my heart was filled with mourning,
mourning for my dear amour,
" 'Tis not possible!", i muttered,
" give me back my free hardcore!".....
quoth the server, 404.

:rolllaugh: Encore!!!!

... BASH.ORG.

...is awesome! ;p

Weburn's right. Bash is the greatest. :)