"Higher" is a song by the American rock band Creed. The song is the first single from Creed's 1999 album, Human Clay. The song is about the power of lucid dreaming. The vocalist of Creed, and writer of the song, Scott Stapp, used the technique to stop a recurring nightmare he had been experiencing in which he was pursued and killed by a gunman. In the dream, he would turn left at the end of a highway and hide under a bridge, only to be found by his assailant and shot. When he had studied lucid dreaming and tried the technique, he was able to turn right and escape the gunman. Stapp stated that after he wrote the lyrics to this song, he never had the dream again.