Thread: Is "Strawberry Fields Forever" Based on a Lucid Dream?

I think it's more about LSD, or some hallucinogenic state of consciousness. "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." I always interpreted that as living a life of ignorance is simple, (but ineffective). Also, "That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right." I believe this is a reference to Timothy Leary, "Tune in and drop out." So probably about LSD but you never know

my friend told me that its actually written about an orphanage that was called Strawberry Fields. Something about when lennon or mccartney (whoever wrote it) was a kid he didn't have many friends and there was an orphanage close to his house and he would play with the kids from the strawberry fields orphanage. i dont know, i'll have to edit this post after i can talk to my friend.

Thats funny, because when my friends and I saw that movie we thought it would end with the main characters at home hallucinating with there hands reaching out trying to grab something. I dunno, thought it was sort of funny. As for the song and the music video of the original, I thought it sort of looked trippy like a lucid dream.

take a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywg-PdeGVL0 (the music video of the Beatles Original)

That was a fairly early Beatles song which leads me to believe that it was about an acid trip instead. They didn't really start doing self realization until the 70s.