Amazing new prolong technique??

[IrishDJ]

Last night was the most amazing session ever ever had, i have always tried different techniques of prolonging a LD when its starts to fade to all black. My favourates were spinning around on my axis, keep walking and trying not to look around too much and relaxing my mind and trying not to get too excited. But last night what i found is that making music up in your head or playing songs that you already know seemed to keep my dream going for about five times longer than any other LD's ive had. I honestly don't know if the music was the cause of the really long LD, has anybody else ever had this? I will defiently be trying this again tonight.

[ilovefrootloopz]

That sounds pretty cool I'll try it when I get the chance and report back.

[Entaria]

Hmm, I'll have to remember to try that and see. I'll tell you if it works for me It might, the longest LD I've ever had I could "hear" a song that I know quite well for most of it. Even though it would make no sense because it's been YEARS since I listened to music to go to sleep, I was absolutely convinced in-dream that I actually was playing a CD and that's why I could hear music, and was consciously trying to not hear it because I thought it was going to wake me up XD my dream might have lasted longer if I wasn't doing that.

[Enargo]

maybe I'll try this with drawing. Since I want to try drawing things into (dream) reality, maybe this can double as a prolonging AND conjuring technique.

[IrishDJ]

I was wearing earplugs while this all occured, this probably helped me in a way. There were points when i couldnt really hear the music and the only way i was able to increse the volume was to move my hand like i was turning a knob of a stereo. after a long long time lucid dreaming the songs started to fade out in my head, i came across a laptop and i was searching up on the internet for hip hop mixes to play. i must have been leaving lucidity at this point.

[IrishDJ]

Well last night i tried to play music in my head in a lucid dream last night but i couldnt hear it the way i heard it the other night. I could hear the rapping and the beat was comin in and out but i couldn't hear all the rest of the samples or noises. I was just a totaly different experience for the other night. Well it didnt really work because the dream was a bit loose, wasn't fully formed around me and there wasn't many people about. I woke up not too long after that and then went back into insanse non lucid dreams about flying about the bay in my home town in somesort of contest with a cartoon cat. Had to grab all these prizes, was flyin about the sky with loads of new trainers and clothes dropping them everywhere. Find it real hard there days to remember my normal dreams, i can usually remember most of my lucid ones.

[Entaria]

Darn, I had a lucid last night (for a couple of minutes any way, had a logic lapse and accidentally opened my eyes...) and totally forgot to try this. That dream about flying around with the cartoon cat sounds like so much fun! XD Maybe I will have to try that one day... I've never had much success summoning cartoons though.

[Snorlax]

I'm still pretty novice, but I would really like to give this a try when I can. I am almost always playing music in my head, especially when I run. I feel like this could really help me. Great Suggestion!

[Boomslang]

Thanks for the heads up! I went lucid for the first time in a while last night, and decided to sing a stupid little jingle from high school Latin class. Doing so actually did seem to bring me into better focus, and the duration of the dream was longer than a lot of my previous lucids. I wonder if trying to set background music, instead of generating music yourself, would help bring focus or tax your control resources?

[IrishDJ]

Yea i like the word you're using focus, that really describes it well. Try and play music in the background and sing or rap over the top of it. It does seem to help prolong it a bit.

[Mancon]

Yeah! That would work! The whole point of stabilizing a dream is to stimulate the senses. So playing a song would work

[IrishDJ]

Last night i had a lucid dream that went on forever. When the dream started to fall appart i would hum a wee song, any old song and walk round just looking at the ground. When the dream comes back strong again go ahead and mess about doing whatever you want, once it starts to go to the black just repeat the humming and looking down technique. Last night i made an amaing riff on the ground, i was playing it like a guitar. even though i cant really play that well It sounded far more amazing than any guitar i've ever heard.

[Emiko]

Awesome! I must try this. I love music and know many songs well, and they play in my mind a lot when I'm awake and doing something relaxing. I hope this works!

[Am I dreaming]

Thanks I think it worked! ofc correlation does not mean causation, but I tried it last night and I had the longest LD I've ever had! I'll keep trying and post further results, If you're right about this you're a genius

[sharkanana]

Hmmm sounds cool. I might suggest summoning a radio or something to your location, and turning it on. Then you do not have to consciously think about creating the music. But perhaps that is what adds the duration.