About this song
- As highlighted in an interview with NME, In A Dream “was inspired by a dream so intense that Sivan woke up crying.” Throughout the EP’s titular track, Troye details the painfully difficult efforts he went to in order to avoid thinking about his break-up, from travelling back home to disconnecting from social media. Nevertheless, his attempts prove futile as his ex appears in his dreams. "'I think it might be my favourite song on the whole thing, and my favourite song that I’ve done in a really, really long time. I think that song came about in such a weird way, it sounds gnarly depressing because it kind of is, but I woke up crying for the first time in my entire life which was… a fun experience. Then I went into the studio that day, and I was just talking about it. I was like, ‘That was the weirdest; I just had the weirdest start to my day ever,’ and I was just super in my feelings and we started writing. It was this super slow ballad-y, really dreamy thing, and I kept singing about how the only time I get to see this person any more is when I’m asleep and how terrible that is. But also, I was kind of poking fun and being like, ‘All right, can you not haunt me in my dreams? Because that’s kind of making this entire situation way worse.’ So I was having fun with it, but it was just this dreamy, ballad-y thing. And then Oscar [Görres] the producer that I worked with started these insane 80s drums that I just was so taken aback by and so shocked by, but then he added this acoustic guitar and I was like, ‘Oh my god, this feels really magical. It makes me want to dance and cry and it feels really weird and trippy and dreamy and everything I could have ever wanted.’ Then just in general, the last nine months of our lives, however long it’s been, have felt so surreal and so strange. Everyone keeps saying, ‘I feel like I’m in a movie or like I’m in a dream or a nightmare.’ And so it just kind of felt like it really summed up this part of my life. It’s been a crazy year.'" - via Coup de Main Magazine . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
Chart history
Peak position and weeks on chart across Australian community countdowns.
| Chart | Peak | Most recent | Weeks on |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARIA Top 20 Australian Albums | #1 | 2020-11-09 (#5) | 3 |
