Our Love Spans All Worlds

One of the hardest things to do as a creative person is to take the fleeting images and sensations in your mind and give it form in a way that makes sense and stays true to the original vision.

The idea is tangible to me; I feel it viscerally in my own body and mind. But making it tangible to other people is requires quite a bit of work. Despite the difficulties, however, I think it’s important to give ideas the life nobody else can give them. I also think it’s important to let them evolve after starting to make them real.

I had a dream last night that was vivid and exciting. When I woke up, it was hard to put any part of the dream into coherent words. So I decided to write music that encapsulated the dream’s atmosphere instead. What started as “Improv: 260301” became “Our Love Spans All Worlds”, the basis of a narrative inspired by the dream.

In the dream, there were 2 lovers. One died, but they could be resurrected if and only if their soul was brought through the sequence of 3 spirit-worlds. The only world that named itself in my dream was “Eroas”. The other two I’ve decided to call “Aethran” and “Helezan.” These are worlds that have appeared in my novel ideas here and there.

The soul to be resurrected has to be killed in each of the after-realms to be able to return to the world of the living (which I will call “Ghiyat”).

The story I am weaving now centers around the 2 lovers Ariel and Enya. Enya is a human from Ghiyat, and Ariel is an angel in the celestial realm of Aethran who watches over him to entertain himself. When Enya dies too young, Ariel cannot bear to live without witnessing him day in and day out–he feels he’s fallen in love with Enya and is a part of his life despite their never having met. As a result, Ariel becomes the first angel to participate in the strange ritual of killing-resurrection.

Of course, many questions come from this, and it’ll be interesting to explore them. Does Ariel even need to do that process, being a part of the world? Or maybe Ariel arranged for Enya’s killing so he would come to the Aethran after-world. Maybe someone else on Ghiyat wants Enya back, believing him to have been stolen away from the mortal world unjustly?

We’ll see where this story goes–maybe it’ll be a novel, or a concept album, or something else. But it really was a treat to dream. I don’t dream very often, after all.

–P.H. 1 March 2026, 14:47 (E.T.)