I wrote him a song that's not on any records that's called 'The Little Mermaid Man' that maybe I'll release someday. Peter Pan and mermaids and all this really fantastic stuff. There are a lot of fantastical elements and fairy tale characters. It was threatening to live up to that in my daily life, because I'm such a crazy dreamer. Which, in my dreams, is like a land with shiny gemstones on the floor where there is no more fear or worries or time. I can swim without breathing or I'll find a path that leads me to a quiet river and I'll float down the river and land in heaven. That's wild, because so much of what you just described - the dolphins, the mermaids, the ocean - is part of the album. I was having crazy dreams while I was recording the album.

The blue wall became the ocean and I could see whales and dolphins and fishes. The dream submarine suddenly became the studio where I was making my record. At the time, I was recording with this producer, Ross Robinson, in Venice on the beach, and the walls in the studio - which I had never acknowledged because he has so much stuff - are blue. So, in my dream, I'm looking for my iPhone and then a submarine landed in the studio. In the dream, I was like, I need to take a photo so I remember this when I wake up. It was beautiful - I was back in the era of dinosaurs, there were ruins, and lots of wild, unkept land. Everything looked like it was straight out of Castle in the Sky. Once I dreamt that I was in a submarine that was flying in the air and it was driving so fast. I take every single day as if it were my last and make it the best I can. I started feeling better and making my everyday life as good as I wished it would be. It's up to me to make my reality as good as my dreams.

From this horrible thing and my dark mood came another realization: I can just snap out of it. Soko: The record is called My Dreams Dictate My Reality because I was very depressed, my reality was an absolute nightmare, and my dreams were very beautiful and all I wanted to do was sleep forever, take sleeping pills, and never wake up. What's the strangest dream you've ever had?

You snooze you lose reality king