Thread: Playing music in the background?

Where you play music in the background without having to pay any attention to it while it's playing, and without an external device. Has anyone done this?

Sometimes I fall asleep with some music on (a nap). I don't really notice the sound in my dreams. Otherwise it would be very useful in becoming lucid

I've never thought to set my dreams to music, though I've had background music playing in a few non-lucid dreams before. A few times, it's been the result of falling asleep with music playing, though there have been a few dreams where songs I'd never even heard before have played in the background. I still remember a brief snippet of one song that played in a dream YEARS ago along with a few images from the dream because that dream was so emotional.

I actually did that earlier this week. It was an original song too, pretty cool! It lasted for the duration of the LD. So it can definitely be done.

I've heard real songs and unknown music playing in the background of many dreams, both lucid and non-lucid.
I've also heard different cover versions and mashups of songs in my dreams, where I wasn't actively creating the music. My favourite is where a song is played in a completely different style and only the melody is recognisable.
I love listening to music in dreams!

Originally Posted by anotherdreamer

I actually did that earlier this week. It was an original song too, pretty cool! It lasted for the duration of the LD. So it can definitely be done.

Was that in the dream you sent me? I meant to ask if you remembered what music was playing.

I'm sure in a LD you could play your own song. Thooough you might have to remember all of it... but maybe not. I say that because you're conscious at that point. I've had dreams where songs are playing that I listen to, but I don't remember all of them, yet in the dream they flow perfectly and are quite believable that it's the real song, but again, I'm not conscious and going with the flow.

Yes, but I find it much more rewarding to actually create the music yourself since it can become part of the fight... well I fight a lot so don't know about everyone else.

Regardless I once used a song named "Verguenza" to fight a humanoid dragon called Nerimeno, didn't last the whole song but it was background music playing by itself.