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    1. #1
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      Thumbs up Strange dream triggered by music?

      Before I decided to go to sleep, I lay on the sofa, listening to Goldie's Timeless(atmospheric drum and bass) through headphones. I tried to listen to it intently, like a Hemi-Sync recording, and concentrated on the euphoric feel. I was half-asleep most of the time, until I put the headphones down, before the last track (67 minutes), and went to sleep on the sofa.

      I fell asleep without much trouble and woke up in the same place to find euphoric feelings shooting up and down my body. I was enjoying how I felt but was confused as to how it had happened; I had used no drugs recently, other than a cigarette during the first track, yet my eyelids felt heavy as if I was very stoned. When I tried to get up to go to bed, I found the right half of my body (the side I was laying on in waking life), completely numb. I struggled to stand, and after two or so steps, toppled over onto the floor.

      I woke up, once again, on the sofa, with the same bodily sensations. I became paranoid about the possible presence of ghosts in the room, so I struggled to open my eyes and found no ghosts, but a room so dark I was still quite worried. I heaved myself off the sofa to go to bed and flopped to the floor. I found myself standing at the top of the stairs, walking across to the bathroom. The light wouldn't turn on, so I went downstairs and found my sister using the computer and my mum watching TV. Remembering my body's half-paralysis, I slumped onto the sofa and landed on something soft and fluffy, which I at first thought was a giant version of my cat, as that was where it had been laying, but rationalised to be a big bean bag.

      I woke up again, in my original position. I got up and took a few steps before toppling over, taking the closest chair with me.

      I woke up on the sofa with the immediate realisation that my body felt perfectly normal, and did a RC to find was actually awake this time, and finally went to bed.

      I'm not sure how many false awakenings I had and I may even have woken up briefly. This all took about an hour after the music and I don't recall dreaming about anything else.


      Anyone else experienced anything like this?

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      Ha, you have the same middle and last name as me. Anyway, I have experienced something similar but perhaps not as intense. I have found when I listen to music it definitely affects my dreams. It can make them longer and more like real life than like my normal dreams, for instance I would usually just be in a room when dreaming and then instantly be somewhere else. But I have found that when I listen to my I-Pod before sleeping my dreams will be more involved. Like say I was in a room and thought about going somewhere else, instead of just 'transporting' from one place to another I would walk to a door open it, close it etc, you get what I'm saying. That is one thing I have noticed.

      Also I have woken up after listening to music before I dozed off and I have felt really relaxed and peaceful after listening to 'happy' music but I can't understand why at the time cos I'm in that half awake, half asleep state. Just the other night I awoke with my music still playing in my ears and a quite aggressive track was playing, it was actually two people arguing, it made me feel sort of angry but also scared and I couldn't get back to sleep very easily after that as opposed to the former. Hope this helps

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