Audio from sleeping environment manifests into REM Dream...?

[Tallest_Tower]

Hi, My name is Sean and i have a potentially tricky question. Hopefully someone can give me an good answer or thier best analysis. A few days ago, i desided id go to sleep around 12:30AM while leaving the TV on the CARTOON NETWORK and semi watching and listening to a FAMILY GUY episode. I left the volume at a low (but hearable) level and nodded off into dreamland. I proceeded to have a dream (being 110% sure it was a dream and that i was dreaming) about being in some sort of haunted house or catacomb like place. In this place there were two very distinct and different types of creatures. Monsters, which were green in color, and vampires, which were black. By no means was this a nightmare, or a scary dream situation. It was a rather light hearted, fun type of situation. I was directly interacting with both types of creatures during this dream, though not entirely sure in what capacity. Another aspect of this dream was there were a small number of the monsters that were changing into vampires (from green to black), as well as reverse, vampires into monsters. Then i awoke. Being characteristically groggy when i wake up in between sleep stages, i had noticed the glow of the TV and that i had forgot to turn it off. I found the remote laying close by, and turned off the TV. I took a glance at my alarm clock which read 2:30AM. I recalled the details of the dream i'd just had as it was still fresh in my memory. Then i was compelled check what show was on tv before i fell back asleep. It was a cartoon Id never seen or watched before, i watched it for a minuite and was shocked to see what it was about. These two crudely drawn characters that resembled for lack of a better description, monsters. They were together and the part i saw they were discussing how to avoid the group of "vampires" (in thier own words) that were chasing them. The backdrop seemed to be a cave or catacomb or something to that effect (it was crudely drawn) just than a group of vampires supprised them by poping around a corner. The two monsters suddenly started "acting" like vampires which momentarily fooled the group of vamps that were chasing them into believing they were Vampires. Though the color of the show seemed to be basicly white (some light coloring in the background) and black outlined drawings. Not the vivid green and black of my dream From what ive read, when you're in the REM stage of sleep your 5 senses are in a shut down or hybernation mode. Is the correct? even if they are somewhat functional, how could i have been able to discern that much detail of character and plot into my dream from the tv show? For any skeptics i stake my life on the fact that i was asleep and dreaming before i woke up and realised what was showing on the TV. Any ideas would be greatly appriciated! THANKS! (a part time - capible lucid dreamer)

[Ev]

Sound can enter into your dreams. It gets incorporated into a dream image. Them most outstanding example I can provide is: I was sleeping and a person in the next room was typing, hitting keys very hard and fast... In a dream, I had an image of a girl, typing on a virtual keyboard. This image was absolutely not connected to a dream, and it just popped into the dream...

[Tallest_Tower]

I understand certain specific sounds like those produced when someone is striking keys on a keyboard with some force would potentially cause the brain to associate a very specific sound like that into forming a mental picture of a person (girl in your case) typing at a keyboard. I guess what i found strange was the only audio i had available was the speach and random sfx from the show. And from the speach alone i manifested the spoken words "vampire" "monster" into a visually accurate dreamscape.... Does that make sense?

[nwb]

Listening to the radio when im sleeping always gives me dreams about the songs i am hearing, they happen in real time like ill see a guy singing the song in my dream while the song is happening, etc.

["tomeeka"]

I have actually fallen asleep during an episode of Will and Grace and I could still hear it in my lucid dream. It drove me crazy and I finally just decided to try and wake up because it was interrupting my dream.Not to mention th many of times my alarm has been going off in regular dreams and in my dream I thought it was something else so my brain assigned an image to the sound within my dream. It kept on and on til I guess something clicked and I realized it was the alarm clock. Yeah I can see how this could happen.

[really]

Sometimes I fall asleep with music on, and sometimes I'd wake up and not remember listening-to/hearing the songs. Does this mean we can only hear external sounds with better quality when we are dreaming, or in REM? I seriously don't remember anything in the first stage of sleep when this happens. What about the alarm noises we sometimes ignore? Is this just a personal thing or could it vary between sleep stages with all of us?