Thread: How effective is music?

If you think it will help you, it will
I believe music can affect you greatly, so be wise to what music you listen to (just stating in general, im not in a place atm that i can listen to your link)
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The music itself is just an aid in relaxation. Lucid dreams are easier if you go to sleep in a relaxed state, if the music helps you to do that then yes. When people say that there's a direct correlation between the music and lucid dreaming they are usually referring music that's played on top of a binaural beat. There are a few threads on here about binaural beats if you're interested in it. Happy dreaming!

Sometimes if you fall asleep with music on, you will hear the music in your dream. Personally, I think this is rad. I can sleep through anything so sometimes I'll put on something really epic that seems like a good soundtrack to an epic journey/voyage/whatever. But yeah, if it relaxes you - do it! If you can't fall asleep with music on, it probably won't help. If you can, and you believe it will help, then that is what matters the most!

It's about getting the right balance, for example relaxing music just sends me straight off so I can't remain focused on staying aware!

Music is a wonderful lucid dream induction method if you visualize seeing the music being played or even visualize watching an ice skater move to the music while you are deeply relaxed. Soft music is preferable.

Music is very effective,. atleast in my experience... I put a song on , and dreamed epicily and emotionally about that song.

I have often times woke up to the radio back when i had an alarm clock with radion option for alarm. It a lot of the time interfered with my dreams. Quite interesting.
-Silence

I used to listen to a certain track while reading about lucid dreaming and then have it play at certain intervals during the night. I definitely had more lucid dreams during that time, but I can't be sure what exactly caused it because I didn't hear the music at all while dreaming.

I think it depends on the person. If you're a light sleeper, music might make it hard to fall to sleep and to get good quality sleep. For example, I can't sleep if there is a TV on or if there is music for the most part. The sound changes too much and it will keep making my brain give it too much attention rather than relaxing. I do listen to white noise when I sleep, like fire or rain or something. It works a little better for me because the sound has a constant intensity and pitch.

65% effective.

Apparently.

That one would definitely make for good WILD tech. I'm definitely gonna be making use of it once I get my sound system properly set up.

Thanks everyone! This is helping me a lot but the only problem is, my 6 year old brother's room is right next to mine so i dont want to wake him up but i want to make sure i can actually hear it at the same time...
Oh well, guess I have to fall asleep to quiet music.

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

65% effective.

Apparently.

That one would definitely make for good WILD tech. I'm definitely gonna be making use of it once I get my sound system properly set up.

I read the article. The claims seem quite hyperbolic. They say it's more relaxing than any other song, but I'm pretty certain they didn't test every other song.
But I fall asleep to this sort of music quite a lot. Artists like Bass Communion, Near the Parenthesis, Loscil, Stars of the Lid, Robert Rich etc. They're all good.
Then again I fall asleep to black metal sometimes too.

i believe it helps you relax

A lot like what ShadowOfSelf said... Much like anything, it can have a placebo effect if you're truly convinced that the music triggers your awareness.

From experience though, I do know that music can have some influence on the nature of the dream. I've had a non-lucid dream where I was on stage with the band, and the guitarist was playing an interesting a guitar riff; I awoke right then to the same guitar riff playing on my brother's radio that was playing loudly in the next room.

I'm conducting a seperate experiment, but I think it can add to this one too.
I'm sleeping with music now, to mute the audio hallucinations (they freak me out, not the visual ones), and I've found 3 results:
1. It works. I only get visual hallucinations when WILDing.
2. The music doesn't transfer to lucid dreams.
3. The music does kinda transfer to non-lucid dreams. I sleep with classical music, though I've had 2 dreams with music in them since the start of this experiment, neither of them had classical music in them. Just the concept of "music" gets transferred. Last night I dreamt of an AWESOME beat I'm going to use in my next music project. ..there are no beats like that in classical music, surely.

Just adding my two-cents worth