Lack of Sound in Dreaming?

[roelke]

Sorry if my question/wondering has been addressed elsewhere (I searched the forum and the tutorial). I've just begun dream yoga and have noticed that my dreams seem to lack auditory qualities. Conversations are held and communication between others and I happen, but it seems to be more "implied", if that's the right word. Basically, I know what is said, but not through the experience of hearing it. I'm not sure that is clear, but I'm wondering about this. Does this happen often with others? Does the experience of sound manifest more and more as one develops vivid dreams and lucidity? Ryan

[Seeker]

I don't think I have ever had a dream in which sound was not present. I suspect this is just a temporary thing for you. Next dream, conciously try to make a little noise and see what happens.

[AlternateReality]

my dreams don't seem to have sound either.

[Merlock]

The way I see it, this depends on how well trained one's hearing sense is. Thus, the conceptual thought that one dreams in is reconstructed as visual imagery to a great degree and as sound to a lesser degree. Those that give more priority to sound in waking life would tend to give it more priority in the conceptual thought level during dreams as well it would seem. Same with other senses, apparently.

[andorf]

This happens to me sometimes, i remember people talking and i somehow know what they are saying and feeling without actually hearing them talk.That started happening to me less as my recall imroved because i started trying to remember all details of dreams, including things i never used to care about like sounds.

[roelke]

Thanks for all the feedback. Yes, experiencing more details/aspects of the dream, in this case sound, as a result of better dream recall makes sense. Glad to hear this is not a unique happening Ryan

[Darkhack]

The only time I ever have sound in my dreams is when DC's or myself are talking. Interestingly enough though, I almost never talk in my dreams. I really need to try that sometime. I just never saw the point in saying anything since people are fake and I have nothing to say. Although sound cues like yelling "increase clarity" are useful, I've never used them. I would really like to have a dream vivid enough to where I expierence natural sounds, like doors making sounds when opening/closing or hearing/feeling a breeze if I'm outside or even hearing my own footsteps when walking. Basically by natural sounds I mean those little things that no one notices. Not nessisariliy in nature, but in the real world where you aren't just walking around with everything being mute.

[TravisE]

The closest I remember ever coming to not having sound in dreams is a couple of occasional dreams I had in the morning where the dream makes up the visuals, but the sound will be taken directly from what is happening around me in real life. So there was sound, but it wasn't the dream's "own" sound. That doesn't happen very often, though.

[Neruo]

I to have no sounds at all in my dream. Most converstaions even go by thought it seems. You know i just Know people said something. Not actualy sound. When I get lucid I might try focusing a bit harder on soudns =)

[TravisE]

I hear sounds when people talk to me in non-lucid dreams, but there often seems to be an implied meaning to what they say that I sort of "automatically" know. So somebody might say something in a dream that I immediately understand, but when I wake up I realize that if someone said that to me in real life I'd have to clue what they meant.

[Wolffe]

Think about it in context. You're remembering the dream. Can you actually REMEMBER the sound of the person talking when they talk, or what they actually said? The only time I realised I'm actually hearing stuff is when there's music or a particular phrasing. Its just to do with recall I reckon.

[TravisE]

In my last couple of dreams I remember the sound of the DCs' voices and what they said. I don't typically pay enough attention to what people say in dreams to remember any earlier examples clearly, though. That sounds like something I'll pay close attention to now.