For today’s episode of Between Birds of Prey, we will make a musical journey through the world of dreams. We will meet a world filled with nightmares, but also with pleasant feelings and landscapes.

On the right we have the drawing ‘a dream within a dream’ by Seklusion – http://seklusion.com/?p=5132 – inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s 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?

The audio and playlist follows:

1. :Golgatha: & Birthe Klementowski’s – Circle Of Dreams (Cycles)
2. Kammarheit – Sleep After Toyle, Port After Stormie Seas (The Starwheel)
3. Beyond Sensory Experience – Between Sleeping And Walking (Modern Day Diabolist)
4. Abandoned Toys – The Great Dreaming Swan (The Witch’s Garden)
5. Dark Muse – Once Amid a Dream (Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel)
6. Amber Asylum – Dreams of Thee (Songs of Sex and Death)
7. Apoptose – Berkanas Traum (Bannwald)
8. Hekate – Traumzeit (Tempeltaenze)
9. Ben Lukas Boysen – Only In The Dark (Gravity)
10. Harold Budd – The Room of Ancillary Dreams (The Room)
11. Blood Axis – The Dream (Born Again)
12. Birch Book – Sleepless Search (Birch Book)
13. In Gowan Ring – Morning’s Walking Dream (Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home)
14. Forseti – Letzter Traum (Windzeit)
15. Lux Interna – Somewhere Behind Sleep (Absence and Plenum)
16. Arcana – Like Statues in the Garden of Dreaming (Dark Age of Reason)
17. Tor Lundvall & Tony Wakeford – A Rain Washed Dream (Autumn Calls)
18. Michael Wandmacher – Parade Dream (The Last Exorcism, Part II)
19. Lebensessenz – Über Die Brücke Der Träume (Tu, Deorum Hominumque Tyranne, Amor)
20. This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren (It’ll End in Tears)
21. Trobar De Morte – The Lost Dreams (Reverie)
22. Triore – Europa’s Dream (Three Hours)
23. Der Blaue Reiter – Underworld Dreams (Le Paradis Funebre, L’envers du Tristesse)
24. Rudi Arapahoe – Every Time I Sleep (Echoes From One To Another)