Analysis Of Just A Dream By Nelly

“I was thinking bout her, thinkin ' bout me, thinkin ' bout us, what we gon ' be. Open my eyes yeah, it was only just a dream.” Many songs today and throughout the years have talked about dreams and whether those dreams were in a person, a thing or time, if they were broken or fulfilled, just like these lyrics above, which was sung by an artist named Nelly. This song talks about he’s thinking back about how he lost the woman of his dreams to someone else and how he is shattered because he wanted to end up marrying her, but realized that he didn’t give her all his love and messed everything up with the two of them. We can all read the lyrics of this song and many others like it and get the gist of the situation, but not many will dig deeper …show more content…
He says in the song “didn’t give her all my love, I guess now I got my payback.” That can then beg the question of why he didn’t give her all his love. Per the song, this is the woman he wished he could’ve ended up spending the rest of his life with, but now it’s just a faraway dream to him. There are multiple reasons why people can’t give their love fully to someone. One of them could be anxiety and situations from their pasts that could cause them to hold back from opening to others. According to Julia Turner, who wrote “Human Psychology As Seen Through The Dream,” every single human being has had anxiety in their lives. Even newborn infants have come into touch with anxiety through being birthed or coming into a new atmosphere and seeing new people. The things that happen in early childhood and throughout life in general help shape a person and their characters, which will ultimately impact their views on life and what their dreams are. In “Just A Dream,” it appears Nelly could be fearful or anxious of being completely open with a woman, which includes giving all his love, which he regrets not being able to do since it causes her to run into the arms of another man. Now, without knowing Nelly’s past and life events that have had an impact on him, no one can truly pinpoint why exactly he struggles with opening his heart completely to another, but it does allow us to become empathetic with him …show more content…
When we look at one’s dreams, we are able to have a fuller understanding of what they are feeling and what they want in life. If we didn’t have dreams, we wouldn’t have ambition or motivations and wouldn’t know as much as we do now. Without the ability to dream, we wouldn’t be able to explore the things that might be haunting us, like an ex-lover or a traumatic experience that has changed us and our view on life. Because our dreams and why we think or react in the ways that we do are connected to different memories and emotions, we are able to learn more about people on a phycological level. God’s intricate design of our human brain and emotional responses is completely flawless and one of the most amazing things. From the very moment that we are born, we are impacted in the way that we dream about the future or look back on the past. We can look at it and grow and strive to do better in the future, or we can be like Nelly, and almost seem to give up and just go to a bar. Sitting in a bar, daydreaming about an ex-lover doesn’t seem like the most ambitious dream or goal in the world. So what are you going to do with your newfound ability to dream bigger and deeper than you ever thought possible? Will you sit and just daydream and never do anything or will you make your dreams into plans that bring on action, whether it is making things right with a person from the past or moving forward and