Being deaf in the dream

**DreamHighlander** · 11-09-2013 07:21 PM

I don't know if this happens to you, but sometimes i cannot hear anything in my dreams. It happened in 2 of my latest lucid dreams. I can do anything i normally do in a lucid dream: fly, see, touch... but i cannot hear. Tottaly deaf, total silence. Those dreams were a product of successfull WILD attempts. Why is this happening? I have my own theory:

When we are inside a dream, after some hours of sleep, all of our senses are transported into the dream. Although we are lying in bed, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, those senses are awake in the dream, so we can move, hear, talk, see. We have our "dream senses" activated. That's the reason why we sometimes are dreaming but at the same time we are hearing sounds from the waking world, although somewhat distorted. But the hearing must be the last one to be completely inside the dream.
When we enter a dream directly from a WILD attempt, our senses become to enter into the dream gradually. Because we are always aware, in the first moments of a lucid dream, we start to see, then we move, then feel, talk and only after a while we become to hear. Until that we are totally deaf. And because i use to sleep using ear plugs (to avoid noises from the waking world), i get aware of it even more.

Am i right on this? What do you think?

**Sivason** · 11-09-2013 09:48 PM

Normally dreams only have sight and emotion. It is like watching TV. The next sense that may get involved is touch. Hearing only comes in if the plot of the dream calls for. Taste takes some work and is not common without work. Smell is rarely in a dream.

You can reach enhanced levels of dream sensory experience through awareness training and practice within LDs.

**DreamHighlander** · 11-09-2013 10:10 PM

Do you mean that we don't hear sounds in the dream?
But every dream i have i can describe some of the sounds. When i'm talking to a DC i can hear his/her voice.

**NyxCC** · 11-09-2013 10:34 PM

Very interesting observation DreamHighlander! Yes, this has happened to me too. I think there are at least two occasions this has happened. One was a very long WILD that went without any sound, the other one was a short ld, I can't recall it right now, just that it was lacking in sound. It might have been a wild as well.

I certainly do get more glitches with wild. I think your theory is headed in the right direction. When we are in the dream and get a dild, we are already comfortably seated and ready to be served by our dream senses. With wild there's the initial senses shut down and it may take some time for them to reappear. I usually have most senses (perhaps except smell) in dreams including being able to hear sounds etc, but as I said there often are fluctuations or glitches with senses. The important thing is to keep going with the dream even if a sense if missing. That way you give it time to come back. Sometimes it may not even come back, but if you are persistent, you can still have an awesome dream.

Btw, if you're interested in reading about a funny soundless wild, check out my second entry from the 2nd July (Multiverse mute).

**DreamHighlander** · 11-09-2013 10:59 PM

I read it. Very interesting. In your dream, you said that maybe the DC was not seeing you at all. With me we were all aware of each other. The DC had to make some gestures and write it on a paper. I guess i should have concentrated on using telepathy, but i was afraid on not being connected to the DC for we to exchange thoughts at that time. I was more startled on not hearing sounds. On my many lucid dreams, this was only the second time it happened.

**NyxCC** · 11-09-2013 11:08 PM

Oh, we were also able to see each other and talked (like opening our mouths) and they obviously reacted to my thoughts and mute words by replying, but there was no sound at all. Edit: I came up with the strange theory during the dream, that I went to another universe and maybe I was like invisible to them, which is why I asked them if they can see me. (dream logic

).

Using telepathy in dreams is a really cool idea and something I definitely've got to try. Sometimes it can be very stange to talk in dreams - it might require a lot of effort or your voice may come out really weird.

Yeah, I guess the more lds one has, the greater the chance to notice all sorts of glitches. There're also very cool things that happen by chance too. Oh, and congrats on your wilds.