Muild?

[carpets]

so i've been experimenting with wild, and i have plans (the opportunity hasnt quite risen yet) to try wild with wbtb (all the times i have circumstantially done a wbtb i have gotten lucid briefly before being woken up or the dream ending). so last night, as i fell asleep, with no particular attention to do a wild, i was listening to music. and this happened to me before, but i only kind of realised it now - whenever i listen to music as i'm going to bed, there's a definitive point in time when i find the music to be preventing me from falling asleep. up to that point, i'll be fine - able to relax in bed and listen to the music. but eventually, i'll find it irritating, and i'll have to get out of bed and turn it off. so i realised, that point must be the point at which one starts to fall asleep - or at least start drifting off. though i turned off the music, i now have the thought - what if you could listen to music as you did a wild, and both use that point as a means to know when to start focusing on your breath or counting, but also, to tough it out and try to fall asleep, and even use the music to aid you by keeping you "awake" as your body falls asleep. it's just a theory, but i think MUsicILD could have a chance at working. peace

[Meakel]

I think other people have tried this already. I know I have. There are a number of Lucid Dream specific music that you can find throughout the forums. A question though, what type of music do you listen to when you try to LD?

[carpets]

it's not a question of using music to induce a lucid. the point is it could be used as a tool for wild; something to keep your brain awake while everything else falls asleep - much like breathing or counting

[Kitties]

I think I understand...and that is a good idea. I may have to try it sometime. Though, I remember once someone said something about music activating a certain part of your brain that will hinder your sleeping or something...

[SKA]

The problem with this is that at a certain point while you're getting closer and closer to falling asleep the body's 5 senses shut down. I tried to figure out why it wouldn't work by making an MP3. In this MP3 there would be 2 minutes of silence and then the sound of a Churchbell sounding 4 times. I recorded it with my Synthesizer. The purpose of this was to count the number of times I could hear the bells ring and remember the number of times really good. Everytime the bells would ring I would Visualise the number infront of me. I awoke the next morning remembering having counted to 15. 15 X 2 minutes = 30 minutes to fall asleep. Appearantly after that my ears were no longer able to hear OR "I" wasn't there, unconscious, so 'there was "nobody home" to hear the 16th bells and the next.

[carpets]

huh. thanks for the inputs guys. i think in the future, i'll use it just as a measuring point of when to start focusing on not losing conciousness - i'll pause it so as to not keep me up.