Thread: Waking Sounds In A Dreaming World...... (need help)

I was sitting in my bedroom this afternoon thinking about Dreams in general when something puzzled me..

I have tried researching this topic before but have yet to come to any conclusion, maybe someone could help me out..

I remember a while back (a year or so ago) I was taking a nap with my television on, and I had previously had on the movie HALLOWEEN.. I fell asleep during that and ended up having a dream.. Now inside the dream I was in my laundry room and I heard the theme song from Halloween, inside my dream...

I know we have all had it happen to us before... Waking Sounds, entering in our Dream World...But how is it possible.. Wouldnt we have to be somewhat "AWAKE" to hear those sounds??

What makes the outside "reality" sounds enter into our "dreamland"?

If it happens only when we are close to waking up, then it is similar to Lucid Dreaming, because we all Lucid Dream (alot of the times) right before we wake up...

Anybody have any information on this?

Would be great to get some information...

Thanks

spiritofthewolf

I recently read that a comatose experimental animal can have brain response to visual stimulace. As in, hold a comatose dogs eyes open and flash colors in front of it,,, and it has brain waves and such that show activity related to the flashes. Your brain will respond to sounds even in deep deep sleep. Probably so you would wake if something was creeping up on you while you slept.

I believe that your hearing is does not shutdown when you got to sleep so you can here real world sounds while you sleep. This is the reason why they invented smoke alarms since you can't smell the smoke while sleeping but you can hear the loud noise.

Light too.

Most "rem cue" devices (NovaDreamer etc) work by flashing lights in your eyes. The stimulus from the light is integrated into your dream - e.g. you might see the reflection of the sun sparkling on water, which you can use as a trigger for a reality check.
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You may have experienced both dream and waking stimuli at the same time, when transitioning - waking up or falling asleep. Have you ever opened your eyes but carried on in a dream state - so that your brain reinterprets what you see as something rather different, possibly trying to stay consistent with your previous dreaming? Or felt both your real body and the one in a dream as you wake up?
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I think its clear that you don't simply "shut down" your senses when you dream. You just use them in a different way.

When awake, you build up a picture of the world around using your senses, and your understanding of how the world works. When dreaming, you still build up a picture of the world, but its based much more on your thoughts and expectations of what's going to happen. Its almost as if your perception is running in the opposite to the normal direction, generating sensations from ideas rather than the other way round.

Genuine sensations still get through; if they're strong enough they get integrated into the dream, and if they're even stronger or trigger stronger associations (e.g. someone shouting your name) you wake up.

Originally Posted by TheDGP

I believe that your hearing is does not shutdown when you got to sleep ... you can't smell smoke while sleeping but you can hear loud noise.

I heard that hearing is "the last sense to go and the first to come back" - in the specific context of a coma, as a reason for talking to people in that situation even if they look dead to the world.

I had LD about 10 years ago where I was in a field trying to fly when I noticed I could hear people talking, there was no one near it could have been coming from, then I realised it was someone talking to a child in the room I was asleep in, I listened to their conversation while trying to jump from a fence and fly.

I guess this is kinda off topic,but has any one else noticed that real-world sounds always seem to align perfectly with a dream. Like in a dream, u may see something falling, and as soon as it hits the ground, u hear something in the real world fall. I know that ur mind might create a situation to fit a sound already heard, but it seems that my dreams sometimes match up with whats gonna happen in reality. maybe im crazy...