Has this ever happened to you while in hypnagogia?

**TimothyWatts** · 01-25-2014 07:44 AM

I usually fall asleep to music or something on the TV. As I'm falling asleep and entering the hypnagogic state, I'll start to feel as though I'm the one making the music or the dialogue happen. That always then triggers the thought, "Wait, I didn't do this," and I wake up fully. Does anyone else experience this effect?

**Motox20** · 01-25-2014 10:24 PM

I know what you mean, it like the sounds make their way into your head in a way that makes you think it's your thoughts. When I drift off a little I start hearing the background noise in my room like it's background noise in my head, that's the best way I can describe it. Kinda hard to explain but it's why I sleep with the TV off now, and had to take the battery out of my clock, tick...tick...tick...tick...tick....drives me nuts...lol. The only real solution is to turn everything off and sleep in complete darkness and silence.

**lucidmagick** · 01-30-2014 11:32 AM

Hello,

Yes, I've had this happen more times than I can remember. Hypnogogia, though, has for me always made it easier to enter into the lucid dream. Although, depending on what the audio is, sometimes I've been snapped out of it too easily. What I do when I begin to see hypnogogia is focus on intensely. Sometimes the waking state will increase, but about half the time I can slip into the hypnogogia more and more, until it becomes a full blown lucid dream. Though I will say that these types of lucid dreams don't feel as intense as a full-blown sleep or nap style lucid dream. They're quite fascinating though.

**Blackhammer** · 01-31-2014 02:12 AM

I don't exactly have the same thing as OP does, but hypnagogia is something I experience commonly. Just like lucidmagick said above, it's a great way to enter a lucid dream. For me they are the most intense ones though.
I often hear music in my hypnagogia state. Sounds like classical music, really good classical music - the funny thing is I don't recall hearing those pieces ever in waking life, I don't know if they're created or is this subconscious memory ?

**lucidmagick** · 01-31-2014 03:48 AM

Hi Blackhammer,

It's interesting how unique and different one mind can be from another. When I enter a hypnogogic state and there's no external sound, I will hear strange sound FX, but no music. In a full-blown lucid dream, however, music often happens. Its inspired a lot of my own musical compositions, to say the least. There's an artist named Aphex Twin whose "Selected Ambient Works, vol 1-2" were inspired by music heard in lucid dreams. Some of his stuff is really harsh and I can't stand it for more than a few minutes, but his ambient music is great.

**TimothyWatts** · 02-01-2014 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Blackhammer

I don't exactly have the same thing as OP does, but hypnagogia is something I experience commonly. Just like lucidmagick said above, it's a great way to enter a lucid dream. For me they are the most intense ones though.
I often hear music in my hypnagogia state. Sounds like classical music, really good classical music - the funny thing is I don't recall hearing those pieces ever in waking life, I don't know if they're created or is this subconscious memory ?

I experience this same thing, too. Sometimes I also hear very unusual music, not quite electronic but nothing I've heard any instrument produce either. I find I can never entirely remember what I was hearing when I wake back up, though. It could be subconscious memory, but I feel like if I was hearing a song I knew, I would recognize it, or at least feel like it was familiar.