Thread: Music while asleep, music and dreams

I have tried to use music (especially Pink Floyd) to induce lucidity, but I don't believe I've been successful. I have heard music that was playing IRL in my dreams with perfect clarity.

Once in a lucid I was listening to a song that I had heard before, but didn't know the lyrics to. The song played so perfectly in the dream that I was convinced I had my CD player on IRL. I didn't.

I have had an interesting experience along these lines.
At least once every weekend, I go to sleep listening to a Liquid Mind CD, and leave it on repeat throughout the night at a low volume. I once woke up in the night (probably right in the middle of an REM period as I returned to sleep very easily) and I remember no apparent lapse in consciousness as I entered a dream. Unfortunately I wasn't lucid, although I should have been (missed opportunity). In this dream, I was in bed trying to get to sleep listening to the music, just like in real life, but I could now hear calm lyrics in the music and I had a book about the musician about how to relax.
Very strange and cool experience there, hope to have more.
Oh yeah, and I can remember music in my dreams. I remember listening to one of my tracks that I've made, but in the dream it sounded slightly different. I remember the sounds and recorded the rhythm using diagrams. I hope to recreate it when I have the time.
I also remember performing a perfect recreation of a song just by hitting two pens together.

Thanks for sharing, you two.

Originally Posted by Well now what?

I also remember performing a perfect recreation of a song just by hitting two pens together.

Now that is talent.

I tried WILD before sleep yesterday with music (spotify songs from my ipod) and I lay on my back. I just said the lyrics loud in my head to each song then after 30 minutes my body started to vibrate and my spine felt weird then the song Dreaming of you with Coral started and I think I fell asleep unconscious here :S I try again next night. But what happend ?

I listened to a song on a record player in the top of a huge tree once in a lucid dream. It was a song I've never heard in RL, but it was perfectly clear. I also heard music playing outside my house during SP that was also very clear. I could not remember the songs upon waking up. As a songwriter, one of my goals is to hear a song I haven't written yet while in a LD. It would be a really interesting way to write a song.

I don't know why, this seem to work :O

Here's the playlist I listen to when I attempt my WILD before sleep:

Dream:

Stand Up - Prodigy 5:08
Jocasta - Noah and the Whale 2:49
Nantes - Beirut 3:50
How It Ends - Devotchka 7:00
Still Alive (Theme from Mirror's edge) - Lisa Miskovski 3:36
(22 minutes and 22 seconds)
Dreaming of You - The Coral 2:21
All The Things That I've Done - The Killers 5:02
We Are The People - Empire Of The Sun 4:32
New Born - Muse 6:03
Dreams of reality - Sondscape Relaxation 7:38
(42 minutes)

When I hear the song Dreaming of you I hear a vibrating sound and I feel something weird in my spine, then usually I fall asleep unconscious. Myabe this works if I stay aware the whole time.

I try again ...

I've been able to hear music with clarity in dreams when it's not playing IRL. Usually what happens is I wake up with a tune in my head. I only tend to be able to recall it if its a song I know of. I've sang and played guitar in my dreams. With guitar, my playing tends to be very uncoordinated, but it sounds right somehow. I've tried falling asleep to music like Godspeed you black emperor or explosions in the sky, but I think its too ambient to really take notice of. But I'm certain you can incorporate sounds into dreams. It tends to happen to me when people ring the doorbell while I'm asleep and I dream about the sound.

I did a little work in that area a long time ago, because I wanted to know about dreaming in multiple and singular sense. How many senses one can dream in--even practiced visual recall during dream. I learned that one can dream in any single sense, like physical sensation. Dreams where there is nothing but music is awesome, just incredibly awesome. Be that as it may, I did not see much in the way of singular sense dreaming.

I sometimes hear music in my dreams. It's created by my mind. I once heard a song about love while dreaming. My mind couldn't create the lyrics as fast as the song was playing, so I was only able to grasp the concept of what it was about. Last night I heard music while trying to fall asleep. I made the singers sing 'I am dreaming' since I wanted to attempt a wild xD
If I ever try to fall asleep with my headphones on and music playing, my mind makes sure to block it out. I never hear any sounds from real life in my dreams unless I'm about to wake up. Most of the time my mind plays music to block out the outside sounds.

Porcupine Tree. Although I find listening to music, even really quietly disrupts dreams.

I would recommend "Your Blue Room" by Passengers (U2). It is such a good track for becoming relaxed. I find that it helps a lot with pre-sleep meditation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4hJabqRc4

Music only enters dreams when I'm near awake...

I only tried with binaural music which didn't really work...Also I sometimes hear music in my dreams which I really like but I can't remember it after I wake up.Maybe I would if it'd be in a lucid dream.