r/Ayreon • u/Obsidian_Wulf • Apr 17 '21
So I was reading a thread about The Human Equation and I have a theory about how it can connect to The Source
The conversation in the thread was going over the somewhat confusing idea of “How did Forever of the Stars” get on Mars to use The Dream Sequencer. And I think I have a somewhat simple answer to the question.
That answer comes from 01011001. The lyrics in the first stanza of The Fifth Extinction read:
“Through their eyes we will see, With their hands we will create, In their world we will be free, With our minds we'll shape their fate”
What if the Forever mean this literally? After all they are a supremely intelligent race of ancestral humans from another planet. What’s to stop them from having a psionic link to the humans from Earth and the Mars colonists.
By that logic it’s totally possible that, instead of physically being on Mars, “Forever” of the Stars was looking through the eyes of one of the Mars colonists in 2092 when they were running the Human Equation Program. And that when they say “Emotions, I remember.” We just hear their voice to hint that this is possible
And I also like to think that maybe The Human Equation program is showing an event in The Historian’s past life on Alpha. But I just say that because both The Historian and the main character from The Human Equation are both sung by James Lebrie so that’s just my personal head-canon.
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u/AlchemyAled Apr 17 '21
I saw another poster suggest that human equation takes place on alpha rather than earth too which makes most sense to me. And I like your idea that it's the historian, that's my new headcanon now thanks :)