Thread: Drone/Ambient music?

Originally Posted by ss180

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but anyway...

I was wondering if listening to relaxing ambient music helps attain lucidity. If so, could anyone recommend some good albums? Also, does anyone know if listening to drone like Sunn O))) or Boris is suitable? Some of their music is a bit unsettling but I find it relaxing. Thanks in advance.

I don't know any albums but I think the track Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno has got to do with LDing..:p. Look it on Amazon for a sound sample.

IMJ

Thanks, I got Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (the album Deep Blue Day is on). Any more suggestions?

Originally Posted by ss180

Thanks, I got Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (the album Deep Blue Day is on). Any more suggestions?

I used to produce drone music and I have purchased quite a bit of it. Let me put a list together for you at home. I have quite a bit.

I also bought some entrainment software that can use whatever background like a drone and binural/monural beats (tones). I've done quite a bit of research with theta tones (not so much just drones). But what I've found is that the entrainment and ambient music keeps your mind focused while dreaming. I typically play it in the later hours 4-6AM perfect opportunity for entrainment and lucidity.

Check out Transparent Corp on the web, they have really affordable great software. I use Brain Sound Studio but they have others.

I don't know if this is related, but in my dreams I always have songs stuck in my head. Usually It's "hitch" by Will Smith, "bad Moon Rising" by I don't know, or "Final Countdown" by Europe.

Moby, Round Sky Music, Krishna Das, Amethystium (Not sure on the spelling) are all good for lucid dreaming. I'm not saying they will work for everyone but they sure work for me.

Here are some of my favs (drone related)

black lab
stars of the lid
lull
lustmord
robert rich
steve roach
michael stern
vida obmana
robert henke
rapoon
robin storey
zoviet france
nigel ayers
john everall
mich harris

I tend to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd when I first go to bed, relaxes me, gets my visual mind going...towards morning at 5 or 6, I'll play Every Coldplay song I have on my Ipod, I like the way they do their thing, and it's like I ride all of their songs...visually, which is key...pick some music that gives you the confidence...

My favorites by Coldplay are

The Scientist
Don't Panic
Yellow
Spies
Sparks
Trouble
Trouble(Live)
Green Eyes...

I find that occassionally I actually hear the music in a dream I'm having...though it has yet to induce lucidity...it has potential though, for sure.

Thanks guys. I'll have to look into those.

I always listen to a few ambient songs before I go to bed in the mornings whilst I am looking at a lucid dream subliminal I've discovered. For me, it's allowed me to have more epic lucid dreams that go on for hours.

Yeah, great posts all!

This is also useful, check it out: http://somafm.com/

I cannot explain the stately granduer that is eluvium. This guy is a genius...ambient/neoclassical music that is emotionaly gripping...If you have a heart you'll like this music.... Check out

Talk Amongst the Trees- I listen to this before and even while I sleep!

An Accidental Memory In Case Of Death- Piano solos so beautiful its hard to put in words...perfect for a rainy day.

Copia- Orchestral granduer......

Check this guy out!!!!!

http://www.eluvium.net/
http://www.myspace.com/eluviumtaken
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/bands/eluvium.php

Shit, i can't download the albums from nowhere, and buying is hardly an option since i live in europe-vienna, and they ain't got it in any CD stores over here...

NOOOOOOOO

well i got one, Copia.

3 tracks are awesome, the rest is just for listening, solid but doesn't stand up to the best 3

All I can say is.......Amazon! Lol. Vienna?! I'm jealous...

Originally Posted by azureone

Vienna?! I'm jealous...

lol why that

maybe some bob marley or dave mathews, or some jack johnson are really relaxing

Bonobo.

Very relaxing.

http://wilcoworld.net/records/ghost.php
Number 11 (Less than you think) is a song I listen to often before going to bed...I swear one of the funky sounds in that song is exactly what I hear when I'm having HI (like a laser gun being fired over and over again)
the song starts out with soft vocals and then opens up to a plethora of droning sounds that definitely put me in the state of mind that make me see hypnagogic imagery. I usually listen to the song after I WBTB, even if I'm not attempting WILD.

As of now, I've gotten into both Stars of the Lid and of course the "father of ambient music" himself Brian Eno. Both are great.

Well, first thing I can tell you is Sunn O))) and Boris would make TERRIBLE sleeping music. That's not to say I don't dig them... but FUCK are you seriously saying you would try going to sleep while listening to Black One? lol

Anyway, ambient & drone music can take you to another world. Usually what I do is I turn out the lights, get comfortable, and turn on an album. Then I just sort of... get swept away by the music. Let me make this clear, I do not try to go to sleep when I listen to this stuff. I do not, however, try to stay awake. I fall into some strange altered state of consciousness where the only thing that exists is the landscape being painted by the music and the emotions that I form as a result. It is really amazing, definitely the only way to listen to ambient/any atmospheric genres of music.

As for sleeping through ambient kinds of stuff... I haven't noticed any effects on my dreams


By the way, if any of you guys dig darker kinds of ambient, Raison d'être come highly recommended. Seriously.