“I actually have this really vivid dream from when I was very young that I’ve never forgotten—I must have been around 6 or 7.
The details have largely faded but I still remember it and the feeling I had when I woke up from it strongly. In it, I was a mermaid swimming around my underwater home and just going about my daily business as a mermaid, as if I was in my natural environment doing my mundane mermaid things. But it was extremely beautiful and vivid and I remember feeling a sense of peace and adventure that has been hard to recreate in real life.
I had my house underwater filled with really cool trinkets and little fishies swam all around me wherever I went (much like in The Little Mermaid, probably the inspiration for this dream heheh). I remember guiding some friends around as if I was giving them a tour of my life under the sea, and I was so proud as I swam under caves and through all sorts of sea life. I would guess that my fascination with mermaids stemmed from this—and in turn, ‘mermaid music’, which I jokingly have referred to my music as, but has actually turned out to be pretty accurate. So the dream has been in fact a very influential one!”
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Text James Hutchins