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Teaser 2
I only dream in black and white
(Just a note, the links in this description are boldened because I wanted to keep everything black and white.)
As my entry for Sweet Dreams, I've decided to make a skin based on one of my favorite songs from Iron Maiden's Brave New World, "Dream of Mirrors." It is unclear what the song itself is about, as I have been able to find three different meanings for it on Google from different websites about song lyrics, but I have come up with my own meaning for it. I think the song is about a man died long ago and was reincarnated to live again to get a second chance after doing wrong and unjust things in his previous life, but he is reborn without the memories of his past life. In his dreams, he sees memories of his past life, but struggles to understand what these dreams are about. Eventually, he ends up trapped in a dream where he sees mirrors showing all the memories from his past life, and within each of them, he sees a black-and-white mirror of himself, a darker version of himself, from his past life, when he was a cruel man.
Now, for some backstory on how the skin was made, I was originally going to use my normal persona skin made by Pacifity, but it had too many different colors on it and I gave up after realizing that the colors I was using for the cape weren't shades of gray, but rather shades of pink. I decided to recolor my original Hell's Island skin, with more solid colors. Plus, with both skins, I didn't have to much recoloring besides the skin and royal wear (and the tie) since the suit is already black. I also made this table for which colors on the normal skin correspond to the (shades of) gray color palette I made as I made the skin.
Anyways, here's the song and its lyrics if you want to sing along and are too lazy to go to YouTube.
Teaser 2
I only dream in black and white
(Just a note, the links in this description are boldened because I wanted to keep everything black and white.)
As my entry for Sweet Dreams, I've decided to make a skin based on one of my favorite songs from Iron Maiden's Brave New World, "Dream of Mirrors." It is unclear what the song itself is about, as I have been able to find three different meanings for it on Google from different websites about song lyrics, but I have come up with my own meaning for it. I think the song is about a man died long ago and was reincarnated to live again to get a second chance after doing wrong and unjust things in his previous life, but he is reborn without the memories of his past life. In his dreams, he sees memories of his past life, but struggles to understand what these dreams are about. Eventually, he ends up trapped in a dream where he sees mirrors showing all the memories from his past life, and within each of them, he sees a black-and-white mirror of himself, a darker version of himself, from his past life, when he was a cruel man.
Now, for some backstory on how the skin was made, I was originally going to use my normal persona skin made by Pacifity, but it had too many different colors on it and I gave up after realizing that the colors I was using for the cape weren't shades of gray, but rather shades of pink. I decided to recolor my original Hell's Island skin, with more solid colors. Plus, with both skins, I didn't have to much recoloring besides the skin and royal wear (and the tie) since the suit is already black. I also made this table for which colors on the normal skin correspond to the (shades of) gray color palette I made as I made the skin.
Anyways, here's the song and its lyrics if you want to sing along and are too lazy to go to YouTube.
Lyrics
Have you ever felt the future is the past
But you don't know how?
A reflected dream of a captured time
Is it really now? Is it really happening?
Don't know why I feel this way
Have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face
Seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind
All my hopes and expectations
Looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination?
I just can't take no more
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
Think I've heard your voice before
Think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream?
Is this a new reality?
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind
All my hopes and expectations
Looking for an explanation
Coming to the realization
That I can't see for sure
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
Please save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
I get up, put on the light
Dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate
Nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head
Dread to think what might be stirring
That my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting
Saving me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
Lost in a dream of mirrors
Lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning
Lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit
Lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence
Lost a nightmare I retrace
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh, ohOh, oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
But you don't know how?
A reflected dream of a captured time
Is it really now? Is it really happening?
Don't know why I feel this way
Have I dreamt this time, this place?
Something vivid comes again into my mind
And I think I've seen your face
Seen this room, been in this place
Something vivid comes again into my mind
All my hopes and expectations
Looking for an explanation
Have I found my destination?
I just can't take no more
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
Think I've heard your voice before
Think I've said these words before
Something makes me feel I just might lose my mind
Am I still inside my dream?
Is this a new reality?
Something makes me feel that I have lost my mind
All my hopes and expectations
Looking for an explanation
Coming to the realization
That I can't see for sure
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
Please save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
I get up, put on the light
Dreading the oncoming night
Scared to fall asleep and dream the dream again
Nothing that I contemplate
Nothing that I can compare
To letting loose the demons deep inside my head
Dread to think what might be stirring
That my dream is reoccurring
Got to keep away from drifting
Saving me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
Lost in a dream of mirrors
Lost in a paradox
Lost and time is spinning
Lost a nightmare I retrace
Lost a hell that I revisit
Lost another time and place
Lost a parallel existence
Lost a nightmare I retrace
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh, ohOh, oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh, oh
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
I only dream in black and white
I only dream 'cause I'm alive
I only dream in black and white
To save me from myself
The dream is true, the dream is true
The dream is true, the dream is true
| Credit | Iron Maiden for making such an amazing song |
| Gender | Male |
| Format | Java |
| Model | Steve |
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Update #2 : by IGEBM 02/14/2023 11:51:11 pmFeb 14th, 2023
Added that this won phase 1 of the contest
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I might do more skins like this (persona + Maiden/Metallica song)