Thread: The other MILD; Music Induced Lucid Dream

Originally Posted by Him

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Im not sure how to adapt this to other people, I only know my own success so I'll talk about this. I study music and the technical aspects of it. I don't play an instrument but what I do do is sing. I also play a lot of rhythm games. In a game, there is a set of 10 songs played in a chapter. One of the sets of songs is an orchestral arrangement made from 4 songs already existing within the game. The 10 songs strung together Lasts around an hour but I only need to listen for around 8 minutes for this to work. The song can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GghUgHMJsxY

What I know and how I use the technique:

When I wake up naturally in the night and move so I don't get an easy wbtb, I play a long song that I have memorized. I listen to it for around 8 minutes and turn it off but still play it in my head following how it goes. I then fall asleep rather easily following the song in my head when the song hits 12 minutes (11:48) there's a musical que in the song that I have trained myself to correlate to being in a lucid. When the song that I have been imagining as I fall asleep hits that point, it's been long enough that I would have already been asleep. Once it hits that part of the song, I become lucid due to the musical cue. It has a very VERY high success rate for me but I'm not sure how to teach others. If anyone would like to comment their thoughts and suggestions, that would be great!

Very cool technique... I have played a lot with music induction, but not from memory!

Sounds easy enough to teach: just listen to the first 12 minutes of the song repeatedly, then turn it off after 8 minutes during WBTB and try and replay the rest in your head.

Anyone have an mp3 of the first 12 / 13 minutes?

The problem with listening to all of it (tried a lot) is that you can't easily fall asleep listening to the music. There are some loud parts in there that will wake you up no matter what. That's why I have to listen to the first 8 minutes and imagine the rest. Just look for L - 1 and L - 2, that should be all of it.

Cool technique! I'll keep it in mind.

That's so cool! It is like making a mind mantra out of the music. I had fun with this too with "songs stuck in my head" sometimes. I could repeat the lyrics in my mind over and over. I also got through a really hot day taking my SAT and just sitting there for hours when I was done by rehearsing a guitar song in my mind. I bet it helps a lot if you are learning to play the song on an instrument.

I never thought of taking my ability to this extreme but now I might go for it.

Great thinking and thanks for sharing it!

That's a really awesome technique! I'm definitely going to try that, but just by imagining lyrics. Do you also listen to the song during the day and then reality check at the cue point?