Re: How Does Music Effect LD
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Originally posted by Mr Sonny Dickens
My question is: *I really love music and it plays a big part of my life. *I often make my own videos to songs I like to entertain myself. *If you enter REM sleep with, let's say Outkast playing. *How does that affect your LDing. *Does it help or hurt. *?
Music is very powerful -especially when it comes to the power of suggestion and subconscious "reception." It depends on how lucid you are while hearing the music and how your brain interprets the moods/emotions being conveyed by it. All music has some sort of "emotional sound" or mood within/connected it. I'm not familiar with Outkast, but if their music tends to be angry or sad, your dreams may inevitably have such elements -then there's the lyrics as well (I think the "sound" has more impact than the lyrics, but it really depends on the emphasis among other things... some rap has a more lyrical emphasis and some has a more musical/instrumental emphasis. If there are single words or phrases that are emphasized, your brain is probably more likely to pick up on these while your sleeping, rather than a drawn out story line. I've noticed that when entering lucidity directly while falling asleep, my auditory senses tend to shut down -I can hear the music fade and sometimes completely stop -to some degree, you may not hear the music at all unless you're in a particular stage of sleep where your hearing "opens up" again or if you can sleep with loud music playing...