easy method of lucid dreaming?

just a minute ago I opened up "sound recorder" on my computer and recorded a minute of nothing (no microphone plugged in) and clicked "decrease speed" until it wouldn't let me anymore leaving me with 16 minutes or 960 seconds of blank .wav file. I saved it 3 times as 1.wav, 2.wav, and 3.wav, all the same 16 minutes of blankness. Then I recorded myself saying "THIS IS A DREAM, YOU ARE DREAMING... RIGHT NOW" and saved it as 4.wav. I put the files 1, 2, 3, and 4 in my iTunes library, then in a playlist called "dream notifier". I went into settings on my ipod, turned off shuffle, and uploaded the playlist to my iPod. I connected my iPod to my iPod speaker apparatus and set it to the volume I saw fit. I then set my alarm for 4 in the morning and plan on going to sleep between 12 and 1. And I'm going to play just before I go to bed, and then WBTB at 4 and play it then as well. It will go through each 16 minute blank wavs in order and therefore play my voice "you are dreaming now" after approx. 45 minutes.

I think this might work

If you want to try this yourself, and don't have a mic you could probably find an alternative sound file for your "4.wav", but the first three should work fine.

If you don't have an iPod+speaker you could just play it on your computer (I personally just don't like to leave comp on all night)

And there yuh go, haven't tried it yet. Hope it works. You should try it too. And tell me if it works for you! :}

that's a really cool idea. i like it. wish i could try it. feels like u got the idea from people speaking to someone in a coma. but im jus saying cause people in a coma usually here what people say and stuff.

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Originally Posted by dreamer_numero_uno

that's a really cool idea. i like it. wish i could try it. feels like u got the idea from people speaking to someone in a coma. but im jus saying cause people in a coma usually here what people say and stuff.

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actually no, but that is an interesting connection

I wonder if you could scream "YOU'RE IN A COMA" to a comatose patient and give them a lucid coma or in otherwords the ultimate lucid dream...

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Originally Posted by jamous

actually no, but that is an interesting connection

I wonder if you could scream "YOU'RE IN A COMA" to a comatose patient and give them a lucid coma or in otherwords the ultimate lucid dream...

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I made a playlist of songs that had "dream" or in the title and recorded myself saying "This is a dream. I'm dreaming." etc. I burnt it to a cd and listened to it with headphones through the night. Nothing happened to me though. Not saying it can't work, it should work. :P

yea, it didn't work, but I'll try it again
I slept through it completely the first time
then when I woke up I couldn't get back to sleep to try it again

I might take a nap later and try it then

Hi Jamous:

Phoenelai did a ton of research on this last year and found it to be quite effective. Check the threads. Good luck.

Hey Jamous... I had been wanting to try something like this. How have a built-in microphone on my laptop. How can I record my message though? What program did you use to make the voice recording?

Thanks

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Hey Jamous... I had been wanting to try something like this. How have a built-in microphone on my laptop. How can I record my message though? What program did you use to make the voice recording?

Thanks

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I used the program literally called "sound recorder", default on a PC. Probably something similar on a mac if you have one though.

Cool idea, I actually made a post aobut it, I didn't know there already was one lol. I'm trying it tonigh so I'll let you know how it goes!

I have an idea, record about 85 minutes of blankness, then record you saying "this is a dream, do a reality check" and repeat it for ten minutes and loop it, this way it should do that while your in rem.

hey, I talked to my cousin while he was sleeping and got him a lucid dream, and when its your own voice you should have more luck.

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I have an idea, record about 85 minutes of blankness, then record you saying "this is a dream, do a reality check" and repeat it for ten minutes and loop it, this way it should do that while your in rem.

hey, I talked to my cousin while he was sleeping and got him a lucid dream, and when its your own voice you should have more luck.

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good idea, I think I'll make another playlist with 2 hours of blankness then my voice que 4 times every ten minutes, then go blank for another 2 hours with another cycle. Then when wake up hopefully, and if I haven't had a lucid dream yet, I'll play the 45 minute one.
and I'll record several versions of my que in case I get used to the original.

and hey maybe I could get somebody to do that for me... that seems like it would be more uhh.. organic or something. It's kind of creepy having a recording of myself.

I just use one that says, "I am aware that I am dreaming" "I am aware that I'm in a dream," "You will remember to check your reality and identify that you are in a dream state." I put it on repeat and play it all night. Hasn't worked yet, but that doesn't mean that it won't.

(Note: yay! this is my 200th post!)

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Originally Posted by jamous

yea, it didn't work, but I'll try it again
I slept through it completely the first time
then when I woke up I couldn't get back to sleep to try it again

I might take a nap later and try it then

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Very interresting, I planned on making myself a Lucid MP3 too.

One thing you are probably doing wrong though:

You said you had 16 minutes of silence before a recorded message "You're Dreaming!" comes. You should know that each individual Sleep cycle, of which every night you'll have about 4 to 5, lasts around 90 minutes. Every sleep stage has it's dream stage which is at the end of the 90 minutes when you'll have REM-sleep.

So if you wanna get that alarm to go off at the right time I suggest leaving 70 ot 80 minutes of silence on the recording before a voice sais : " You are Dreaming" for about 10 to 20 minutes. And that 5 times for each sleep cycle.

I'm gunna try recording a little of this stuff myself. Maybe I'll record an MP3 with my Synthesizer.

And another thing:
The spoken message might wake you up or you might miss it completely. These things are unpredictable, but I did notice nsomething while sleeping in the presence of friendswho had some malicious plan for me. Let's say I would be sleeping very deep and they'd say: " Come on let's poor a bucket of icecold water over him" then magically I am wakefull to suddenly say:" I wouldn't do that if you hold your life dear". Strange. As if I was deliberately asleep so deep and choose to briefly "Submerge" to tell them to fuck off and let me sleep.
Something called selective perception? hearing in this case?

Perhaps recording a message like " Let's pick him up and toss him in the ocean!" would be more likely to penetrate.

Im probably going to make the recording today, my grandma showed me how

edit: I dont think it will wake me up, I had my cell phone alarm go off on loud 6 inches from my head and it didnt wake me up.

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Originally Posted by SKA

Very interresting, I planned on making myself a Lucid MP3 too.

One thing you are probably doing wrong though:

You said you had 16 minutes of silence before a recorded message "You're Dreaming!" comes. You should know that each individual Sleep cycle, of which every night you'll have about 4 to 5, lasts around 90 minutes. Every sleep stage has it's dream stage which is at the end of the 90 minutes when you'll have REM-sleep.

So if you wanna get that alarm to go off at the right time I suggest leaving 70 ot 80 minutes of silence on the recording before a voice sais : " You are Dreaming" for about 10 to 20 minutes. And that 5 times for each sleep cycle.

I'm gunna try recording a little of this stuff myself. Maybe I'll record an MP3 with my Synthesizer.

And another thing:
The spoken message might wake you up or you might miss it completely. These things are unpredictable, but I did notice nsomething while sleeping in the presence of friendswho had some malicious plan for me. Let's say I would be sleeping very deep and they'd say: " Come on let's poor a bucket of icecold water over him" then magically I am wakefull to suddenly say:" I wouldn't do that if you hold your life dear". Strange. As if I was deliberately asleep so deep and choose to briefly "Submerge" to tell them to fuck off and let me sleep.
Something called selective perception? hearing in this case?

Perhaps recording a message like " Let's pick him up and toss him in the ocean!" would be more likely to penetrate.

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well, actually what I said was I had three 16 minute blank recordings (16 minutes was as long as I could make each individual recording), then my voice...
then last night I made it 2 hours, but it didn't work. I missed it completely the first time, then when I did a wbtb sort of deal and played it again I happened to have just woken up from a dream when it played.

So, having bad luck with it as of now. But I think I'm doing it right. And that's a very interesting idea with the ocean thing. I think I'll record something like that.

[QUOTE=jamous;475610]then last night I made it 2 hours, but it didn't work. I missed it completely the first time, then when I did a wbtb sort of deal and played it again I happened to have just woken up from a dream when it played.

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I made another version of it with 2 hours blank recording then my voice saying, "dude, you're dreaming."

I actually intended to do this exact thing, with a recording saying "you're dreaming" after a few hours of silence.

Having read the results, though, I wonder if you wouldn't be better off using something less blunt. For example, instead of hoping that you're awake enough to hear and comprehend your message in your dream, maybe you should instead craft your own dream sign - make a recording of something you can remember, like pig noises, mooing, or some other thing which brings on a mental image. Then train yourself to reality check every time you see a pig/cow. With luck, even if you don't consciously understand the message coming to you, your subconscious will incorporate it into your dream visually.