Song stuck in my head

**grischkaja008** · 07-06-2011 06:55 PM

Here's a really silly but to me very important question.

Well when I try to sleep, I often have a song stuck in head which wont pass. It's kind of annoying because it always loops and it won't stop. It's a big problem, because it inhibits me from using techniques to get lucid.

Is there a way to get ride of it or even better, how could you use this effectively for a lucid dream?

Hint: Not listening to anything during a few days doesn't help

**Ctharlhie** · 07-06-2011 08:22 PM

There's very few moments of the day I don't have some song or other in my head. Most of the time I can even perform auditory tasks like reading or talking to someone, all the while a song running as a kind of secondary process in my head. Don't fight it, it will only annoy you if you let it.

Or you could try listening to the song in question repeatedly, that should solve it

**grischkaja008** · 07-07-2011 08:34 AM

Well last night I was able to change the song, so that it sucks less

x)

**dark_grimmjow** · 07-11-2011 03:16 AM

I have had this issue before too. I will go to sleep with a song looping in my head. When i wake up, it starts looping again, almost as if it never stopped while i was sleeping. It doesn't happen every night, but it happens often. Usually it wears off after a while or at least another song replaces it. I agree, it can make it difficult to perform ld techniques sometimes. I'm one of those people who have a hard time falling asleep for the first time at night; i can fall asleep easily after the first time. My mind just keeps going and sometimes its hard to make it shutup. Sometimes if i focus on my breathing and/or count my breaths, i can seem to quite my mind. I guess you could call it focal meditation. Focus on one thing to draw you focus away from another. You could try that and maybe that will make the song stop. I'm pretty sure shockwave has some info about focal and void meditation in the dv academy.

**grischkaja008** · 07-11-2011 09:18 AM

I will try this out, because it sounds to me that I could use this technique not only to overcome the looping song in my head, but also other disturbing noises at night like cars driving beneath my window