I love this song. It comes from one of the best albums of 2009 in my opinion. Kid Cudi's debut album "Man In The Moon" is something I strive for musically. There are quite a few tracks on that album that sound very epic and cinematic. I felt like alot of the instrumentals from that album could've been used to score film(this song in particular), and it pissed me off that Kid Cudi's dull sometimes monotone voice was all over the album. I couldn't care less that it was his album lol. He was ruining my instrumentals. It wasn't until later that I began to appreciate the contrast between elaborate heaviness of the music with his simple dull flat voice. It's a nice contrast. Like someone screaming over a track of harps and strings. He released an earlier video for this song "Pursuit of Happiness" and it was aight. I didn't particularly favor it. But this one? I LOVE this new version.
You know what this video reminds me of? Sleep paralysis. I get this every so often.
Definition: Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM(Rapid Eye Movement) state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious, but unable to move.
Yes it is scary, but just like most things, it doesn't help at all to panic.
The suckiest part about it is....all of your dreams are lucid (you know you're dreaming) because you're conscious. So you'll have dreams of getting up and moving and feeling relief that you can move, right before you suddenly realize you haven't moved an inch in reality. You are, in fact, still on the bed/couch/futon etc. and your neck is still hurting from not moving. But you can't do anything about it.
The easiest way, I've found, to wake yourself up is to put extreme amount of effort into moving. NOT PANICKING. I mean it's like moving boulders to lift your finger, but DON'T FREAK OUT. Remember that scene in Kill Bill where Beatrice sat in the truck for 13 hours after being in a coma for 4 years? Her legs had become apathetic and she had to repeatedly chant "Move your big toe". Well that's what you're doing mentally when you're in sleep paralysis, and yes you could be doing it for hours.
But oh...OH! the sweet relief you get when you're finally able to move things in a quicker succession...move your finger, now move 2 fingers, now your hand, now your wrist, now your arm...*bam*, you put so much force into moving your arm, that you have now smacked yourself in the face...but hey at least you're awake now. Awake, and heart racing as you pray it never happens again, but of course, if you're me....it will. But now you know how to get out of it.
Yea that's what this video reminds me of. Hope you enjoy it. Lol.
1 comments:
I loved the video. I thought it captured the tone of the music in the song very well.
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