Evanescencefreak April 23rd, 2006 05:29PM  
Where did you get that from??? I don't think it's about rape...

anonymous June 1st, 2006 05:34PM  
I think it is juss about her being in her own world. whether it is the world or someone she's trying to get away from. A dream world and that's her escape and she wants that when she needs to get away from things.

anonymous July 12th, 2006 01:02AM  
Hahaha she's not high!

It's just that she (whoever "she" is) can stand all the problems going on in her life and the world, so has simply created herself an imaginary land in her mind, which she can go into.

anonymous July 20th, 2006 12:18PM  
I think that the song is about the real world being a really harsh and unforgiving place and this person is trying to think of a place to hide away from the pain the real world brings to him/her as its too painful to cope in real life without having something there to think about positivly (like an imaginary world you can escape from when the world gets too tough) I doubt she's getting high

anonymous December 21st, 2006 04:46AM  
its actually about having a bad life so you imagine a place that make you forget about it,

I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge...
The nightmare, I built my own world to escape

that part explains the meaning the best

anonymous January 31st, 2007 10:16PM  
For me, it's sort of like, in someone's real life it's horrible. maybe bullies, or abuse, or just meanies at school! Then, when something bad happens, that person just goes and tries to forget about all those things in their 'imaginary' world.
"let me stay where the wind will whisper to me where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story'
because no one talks softly to them in the real world.

anonymous February 20th, 2007 04:02AM  
I honestly believe it's about an insane person, driven crazy by life. "Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming, cannot cease for the fear of silent nights, oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming, the goddess of imaginary light" Obviously, the person is mental. She screams all night because she's afraid of being alone. perhaps she gets sedated, like she's in a nut house, but I don't think so, I think the person's just crazy so they've made up their own little world, where they visit often, but the rest of the world is harsh, and doesn't understand or care, which drives her completely insane.

anonymous March 17th, 2007 04:35PM  
I remember I read somewhere a few years ago that this song was about Amy's bedroom at home. It was where she ran to in hard times to be alone. I think it describes the scenery of her room, "field of paper flowers" wallpaper? "candy clouds of lullaby" a comforter/blanket/pillows?? "purple sky" the color of her walls?
"I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they’re falling tell a story"
I think Amy is talking about how she just wants to stay in her room away from the world, the "alarm clock screaming monsters calling my name" must be her parents waking her up in the morning...and she just wants to stay in bed and listen to the rain and wind-could possibly be raining outside-OR she just wants to stay home and think about things(her troubles-the wind and rain).
"Don’t say I’m out of touch
With this rampant chaos- your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape"
and possibly she was told to come out of her room, it was useless to ignore the world. Or that someone told her they were right when in reality she thought they were the ones out of touch, or wrong. She knows what lies beyond her sleeping refuge, beyond her walls she puts around her, beyond the walls of her bedroom, the walls of her world. She built her own world to escape, meaning that she imagined (ha hence the title "Imaginary") a world of her own, a better world. She wanted to stay in her room and dream, imagine the world being a better place.
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anonymous March 18th, 2007 08:41PM  
I believe that this song is about reality and how when it seems inescapable, she finds this place on her own, her imagination, where she stays to clear her head and sort of escape the madness and chaos of reality.

When you look at the lyrics...

"In my field of paper flowers,
and candy clouds of lullabys,
I lie inside myself for hours,
and watch my purple sky fly over me.

Don’t say I’m out of touch
With this rampant chaos - your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape"

In the first verse, she describes her imagination and her world where she goes to escape the cruelty of real life. In /her/ field of flowers, it's her world and her place. And the absurdity of what she describes (candy cotton and purple skies) sort of show that it's all in her head and it's not real.

In the second verse, it goes over that her world is separate from a "rampant chaos", which is the world of someone else. I sort of understand this to mean that this "your reality" is the world of the rest of us and the world we live in.

And lastly, in the very last line, "the nightmare I built my own world to escape," it very clearly states that her world in not real and it is her refuge, a place to avoid her life and how her life is a horrible place.

I hope that helped! :)

anonymous June 5th, 2007 04:44AM  
Urm I think that Amy is singing this from a child's point of view as a dream, trying to escape from reality off in her own little world and stuff....

x_lily_x September 13th, 2007 04:45AM  
Imaginary is about, well... Imagination! Using your imagination to help escape reality, and all the things going on in reality.

anonymous October 17th, 2007 12:18PM  
It's about hating the outside world and metaphorically sleeping through it, hence the many references to dreams and nightmares. Lying inside herself is lying asleep in her subconscious.

lets_start_a_riot December 16th, 2007 09:38PM  
I think it's about how she pushes herself into her mind to escape the horrors and cruelty of the world. She finds solstice there, and has created her own world of peace.

AvengingSpirit12 January 1st, 2008 09:41PM  
I believe this song is about escaping reality through one's own mind.

"Of alarm clocks screaming monsters coming my way"
- She does not want to wake up and face the cruel and monstrous people in the world -

It's basically about finding refuge within one's self.

Gurl_E_Nerdd April 30th, 2008 02:22PM  
I don't think this song is about drugs at all.

anonymous August 13th, 2008 10:50PM  
MANY people occasionally turn off the drab or irksome realities of the day through fantasy. But some people, a fascinating minority, spend most of their waking lives lost in a fantasy world, leaving it to join the common reality almost as a visitor.

The NY Times had an interesting article on the subject of "Extreme Fantasies" its a condition that many people have, which is normally associated with being alone as a child. These people can spend hours in their fantasy world, living with the people they have created there.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DC163BF936A25751C1A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

DresdenDoll October 4th, 2008 09:49PM  
I know it's been stated already numerous times, but the interpretation of the song is that of escaping into an imaginary world to escape daily pains. It's not about getting high, it's about daydreaming yourself into a place where you can think positively without the stress and pain that can accompany life at times.

anonymous November 30th, 2008 11:56PM  
I agree w/ almost everyone [except the people that said she's high, I don't think she uses drugs] Since, the first time I heard this song, I pictured her sitting in her room daydreaming/dreaming. I figured it was about escaping your troubles by going into your own little dream world, where everything is how you want it to be. This has always been one of the songs I could relate to the most b/c I'm always daydreaming, especially when I wanna get my mind on something else. It keeps me from getting too depressed. I luv daydreaming, and I luv this song!! Yay Evanescence!!^-^

anonymous February 2nd, 2009 04:51PM  
I think the part about the screaming is just that she doesn't like the silence, and it makes her lonely. It makes you want to sleep just so you can at least dream that there are people there.

anonymous February 24th, 2009 05:00PM  
i believe the beginning is telling a bit about an imaginary world she has created, and how she just want to stay there. She doesn't want to get up and out in the real world, which she descripes as "rampant chaos", but even though some people believe that she spend so much time in her own world that she has no idea what's going on around her, she's fully aware of it, she's just doing her best to avoid it.