Dream 23 is a 12-track album (and trip) that takes listeners on a voyage through space and time, pausing to consider themes like openness and healing in the context of chaos. The artist orates the journey of traveling through space and first considering “Air,” the element that surrounds us all, then notions of multiplicity in being “Heliocentric,” followed by metacognitive realizations in “Every Other Cloud” that passes by the space traveler. Being as it were an album fully written, recorded and produced during pandemic, the second-released single “Apocalypse” acknowledges quarantine and its effects on this journey through the dream. Ideas of “Time” are then questioned and challenged right before listeners descend back to earth, with the Interlude titled in Arabic “Hiboot” signaling a come-down. The second half of the album kicks off with the first-released single “22+1.” Evidently, 23 marks the number of dreams and the number of times the artist has circled around the sun. As opposed to succumbing to the weight of the world, listeners are “Cool With It,” comfortable with the ebb and flow of this life and next. The album’s first feature, Egyptian-British rapper Malik Polo, is introduced when the artist begins wondering, Why is the world and its people “Lookin’ at Me” like that? How do others’ perceptions of us impact our own understandings of self? Nature and the abundance of earth is tied in with the blossoming of “Blue Lotus” flowers and the healing properties they possess; steeping the blue lotus in tea or running a bath elicits the making of “Mantras,” by which the artist chooses to live by. The entire perspective of Dream 23 rests on a single and infinite possibility— that “All Things Fly.” The final track features fellow Egyptian emcee Dena Anuk$a and closes out with a compelling outro alluding to prospects of the future, for the artist and for the universe at large.