“follow your dreams ‘til you can’t sleep”
A lyric from the song “Misbelieving” by @alliexxxxandra, one of my favorite artists. I’m fascinated with the destructive nature of this line. You dream when you sleep, so if you follow your dreams until you can’t sleep, you will no longer be able to dream -- hence, you will have no more dreams to follow. But, what is the goal of following dreams? To accomplish them, to eradicate them, to eliminate your list of dreams until you have no more dreams to follow. So, by following your dreams ‘til you can’t sleep, by not sleeping, by not dreaming, you are effectively accomplishing this goal.
It captures blind ambition so well -- following your dreams to a point where you are no longer able to produce dreams, to a point where you become distanced from your self, your subconscious, the identity that produced the dream in the first place, to a point where that self that dreamed that dream you are now following is not remotely similar to the self you are now, who would have very different dreams, but you wouldn’t know that because you are too busy following your past self’s dreams.
