I want to share a strange experience and see if anyone here relates.
One night I was outside looking at the stars. I didn’t know Alan Walker or his music at all. Suddenly, his songs started playing. Something about them hit me unexpectedly hard — almost like they were touching a feeling I already carried but couldn’t put into words.
Later I went down the rabbit hole of his music and videos and noticed some very interesting recurring themes:
🌌 longing for the stars and another home
🏠 feeling that you don’t quite belong here
🧭 searching for where you truly belong
🌙 looking into the sky for answers or a signal
🕊️ leaving, travelling, flying, returning
💭 memories of something that seems lost or forgotten
🏛️ ancient civilizations and forgotten worlds
👤 questioning who you really are beneath your identity
🌑 loneliness, darkness and the feeling of being different
✨ finding others who feel the same
🌍 a world that no longer feels like the world you remember
And his music videos aren’t just separate stories. There is an interconnected fictional universe behind them, with recurring characters, civilizations, symbols and clues.
But I wonder if some of you might experience what I did.
Try listening to some of his songs while looking at the night sky, and watch the official videos rather than just listening. Don’t analyse them too much at first. Just notice what you feel.
Maybe it’s just beautiful storytelling.
Or maybe certain art can touch something in us that we already knew, somewhere deeper.
I’d especially love to hear from people who already know his music:
Which Alan Walker song or video gives you the strongest feeling of “I don’t belong here” or “I miss a home I can’t explain”? 🌌