An Idea: my voice playing as an Mp3 in my headphones

**NoctilucentArt** · 11-11-2011 03:33 PM

This just occurred to me and I am going to try it this weekend. I had downloaded some binaural beats, one of which has a voice intoning "The next time I dream I will know it's a dream....wake up in the dream, etc" and I was thinking what if I recorded my own voice speaking to my self as a reminder? When one is wearing these tiny earbuds it's almost as if the voice is right there in one's head anyway, so what better way to remind my sleeping self than by my own voice speaking to me? Has anyone else heard of and/or tried something similar? I have only had one LD so far and it came about pretty spontaneously. I am VERY anxious to get back in there though as it was so amazing and it seems like there is such promise with this type of exploration.

**Choi** · 11-11-2011 03:46 PM

This is a good idea, but you have to consider the logic problem. When we dream our logic center is well let's just say that it's not very active.
So if you see a pink elephant you will just think "Oh there might be a zoo in town" and that is why we don't get lucid automatically and also why you can get scared of something silly and have a nightmare. And the same problem might effect the voice playing when you sleep, I did this once and all in the dream I thought "Oh no.. I forgot to turn off my dream alarm now even when I am in my school, how embarrassing". So if you are going to use this make sure that the message you tell yourself is as clear as possible and idiot proof

**beijaflor** · 11-11-2011 09:31 PM

I had that idea, too and I tried this but I always woke up immediately when I heard that voice... I tried it about 10 times, but it didn't help.But you can try, maybe it will help you

**NoctilucentArt** · 11-12-2011 01:02 AM

Next question is what would be a good voice prompt for me to record. Any suggestions? I was thinking of something like ...."now you can be lucid...NOW. Take control....NOW." repeated a few times for effect.

**Puffin** · 11-12-2011 01:33 AM

This has been done quite a few times in the past; the results are very mixed. Personally, I've never had any lucids from hearing a voice play through headphones while I'm asleep - either I wouldn't hear the voice at all, or I'd ignore it. Awareness, the key cause of lucid dreams, is hard to promote just from hearing a voice unless you're aware enough to begin with.

**Choi** · 11-12-2011 10:34 AM

The second problem apart from the logic, is that sound sometimes get disorted in the dream, don't know why but it happens to some people, so you have to both make the message clear and the sound clear.

**faceonmars** · 11-13-2011 03:29 AM

I wonder how many earbuds I have destroyed trying something similar? Better to listen to an MP3 or CD whilst trying to fall asleep.

**DreamOfIllusion** · 11-13-2011 09:44 AM

Here's a crazy idea. Record the voice.... but say a dream testing sentence... Memorize it to the point where you KNOW what it's going to be... and in the dream when it comes to that point and it's different even by a hair... pitch, time, wording... background noise... BOOM.

**jarrhead** · 11-14-2011 06:21 AM

I actually did something like this a while back! It's Really's Lucid Dreaming MP3 (binaural beats but also a good SONG with reminders) and I left hours of gaps between it. It spanned an 8 hours sleep cycle and I had my voice (pitch shifted, harmonized, distorted to grab attention) at key points of REM. (Hey! Faggot! Yeah you, Faggot! This is a dream. Go lucid, faggot!) (or somethinig like that)

The whole file was around 4 gigs for 7 hours of MP3 at 320kbps (so as to preserve the natural frequencies, but not to take up like 500 gigs in FLAC format).

Long story short, it failed. Why? IT'S SO DAMN HARD TO KEEP HEADPHONES ALL WHILE YOU ARE ASLEEP. I suppose I could set up my studio monitors through my left and right ears, but they only go down to 46Hz (and these are studio monitors) so you'd have to have a set of like... Event 15" Zimmer monitors for it to work without headphones.