Thread: Read this if you play music while sleeping.

I am going to sleep with music on tonight even if it takes me for ever to get to sleep and i want to use headphones. The problem is they won't stay in my ears, they keep falling out.

Anyone else have or had this problem?

That sounds awesome! Years ago, I made a playlist on my iPod (I know, I'm an iTool) that somehow reminded me of dreams. I am interested if I play this when I go to sleep if it will help my lucid dream percent.

Originally Posted by Rasenganxxchidori

That sounds awesome! Years ago, I made a playlist on my iPod (I know, I'm an iTool) that somehow reminded me of dreams. I am interested if I play this when I go to sleep if it will help my lucid dream percent.

Well i have made two playlists and i am going to try one in about half an hour (really hope i can get to sleep with it on) and i will post my awesome results here in the morning hopefully.

I might try this one day again
I tried lot of time ago but I only woke up with the sensation that I haven't sleep at all That took a lot of motivation to keep using this technique...

haha woah i love listening to music while i sleep, i can't sleep without it. i can sleep with it no matter how loud it is, it can be blasting and i can still sleep. yeah i also hear the music playing in my dreams and ill be "oh man thats sublime right now!" its pretty sweet

Yeah but if you have an eletronic device next to you it interrupts the flow of chi. O.o

Originally Posted by KuRoSaKi

Yeah but if you have an eletronic device next to you it interrupts the flow of chi. O.o

My bad I ment Feng Shui.

I went to sleep with Bach playing in my ears and had a dream of some guy seated at a harpsichord, along with someone else playing a violin. It was kinda cool, although I wish I had turned it into an ld though

Originally Posted by KuRoSaKi

Yeah but if you have an eletronic device next to you it interrupts the flow of chi. O.o

What?

Originally Posted by bach1376

I went to sleep with Bach playing in my ears and had a dream of some guy seated at a harpsichord, along with someone else playing a violin. It was kinda cool, although I wish I had turned it into an ld though

Cool.

I tried it last night and it went rather well, it only took me about 4 hours to get to sleep! Then i woke up about an hour later which never happens, so i turned off the music and thought i will try it again in a few hours when i will find it easier to get to sleep. I had a few hours sleep put the music back on but as i did that my mother came home and was making alot of noise downstairs and it was light outside (i was wondering why because i thought it was about 6.30am) and i was shocked to find out it was 11.00am.

That was not the greatest night sleep i have had, but i will try again tonight. This time i will only put it on when i wake up after a few hours sleep so i will be able to get to sleep easier. I hope.

What my dad always used to tell me was that if I listen to music, because I always used to listen to music when i went to sleep, I wouldnt be able to sleep deep enough which now i understand. I wonder if i had a lot of lucids and just didnt know it..maybe i should start listening to music again when i go to sleep

I noticed that it is easier to fall asleep consciously while listening to music (for me anyway based on last night). I was trying to go to sleep just focusing on the music thinking to myself that i am not gonna know when i am close to sleep (i know i am close when hypnagogic imagery starts and with music on it won't occur. Anyway all of a sudden after focusing on the music for a while the blackness behind my eyelids started zooming in and i could feel myself entering sleep but i backed out because i wouldn't have become lucid because i hadn't slep yet. I will see if this happens again tonight, this time i will only listen to music on returning to sleep.

Something that was quite annoying was that one of the songs on my playlist has been stuck in my head all day.

I always listen to ambient/drones/space at bed time.

But when it comes to triggering lucids about 75% of my lucids post in my dream journal have been triggered from some sort of entrainment files (binural beats) & auto suggestion. The files have a voice saying "you are dreaming" and that comes directly in the dream in most cases. Also the theta tones really keep you on the edge of sleep.

there is another way that might work:

1.listen to music for about 10 minutes until the song is stuck in your head.
2.Next turn off the music and go to bed.
3. play the music that is stuck in your head over and over again and try to imagine the tune in your head.

Me too.
I have tried playing music through the first night and found the earpieces hurt and the music keeps me awake. Only my opinion.
I found the next night if I listen to a low key music and then a relaxation track to relax my mucles,
followed by a track with whitenoise saying "is this real", "am I dreaming" "tonight I will remember my dreams" and "I will lucid dream tonight"
All tracks once. Then I slowly reach over and turn it all off.
The last thing I listen to is the reassurance of the above last track for dreaming.
2 LD's out of 3 Nights. Not listening all night as a distraction.
I think for someone like me, I need the subconscious focus to LD, not distracting music.
Just my opinion.

I am going to try something over the next few nights, i am going to listen to different songs while sleeping and see how they effect my dreams. I am trying to find songs that trigger certain memories and see if the dreams match them in any way, also like if i listen to a holiday song i want to see if i dream i am on holiday, or a christmas song i dream about christmas etc.

The problem is i haven't got much good cd's, all my good songs are on my youtube playlist and i don't know how to burn them to my ipod.

I've heard that also. Though, from my personal experience when I've listened to music as I went to sleep it never once affected my dreams. I went to bed listening to music and I awoke with music continuing to play in my ear. Music has popped up in my dreams of a song I was listening to later in the night before I went to sleep but not as I was going to sleep.

Originally Posted by ~Erin~

I've heard that also. Though, from my personal experience when I've listened to music as I went to sleep it never once affected my dreams. I went to bed listening to music and I awoke with music continuing to play in my ear. Music has popped up in my dreams of a song I was listening to later in the night before I went to sleep but not as I was going to sleep.

I have heard from others experiences that it can effect your dreams. Like the song incorporating into your dream or if you are listening to Orson for example they incorporate into your dream, or the words of the song can change things like if beach is the song you might find yourself magically on a beach for example. Perhaps it effects people differently, i read on a site that a song that triggers strong memories is likely to have the most effect on your dreams.

I am interested to see how this goes anyway.

i used to listen to music with cheap ($3 AU) headphones while I slept and i would usually dream that I went to a concert but I have found music great for helping me sleep lighter hence makingdreams easier to remember.

Idk howold this post is but just wanna add something... I listen to music all the time while sleeping.. I listen to rap and rock so I DO have mixed dreams sometimes.. When the rap is on I have dreams about usually whatever is in the song. Usually not good haha.. When rock is on I have very energetic happier dreams.. Except one time I had evanescence on and it was a really akward kinda scary song to wake ip to.. I woke up in the middle of the night wen it was on and I seriously almost pooped myself haha but umm yea I'm only 16 if that really has a big affect on why they affect my dreams or why I'm able to have headphones in at night..

i sometimes listen to the radio at night(the local alt rock station) and i have had a few dreams that were influenced by it or that i heard the music in the dream. I have a hard time going to sleep in silence because my mind starts going all whacky and weird and i cant sleep

I once had a sing-a-long to the music that was playing in the background, in my dream.

It was like High School Musical, but set to Muse's Undisclosed Desires.

I always listen to boards of Canada and I think it really helps me LD

Originally Posted by mylucidworld

I am going to sleep with music on tonight even if it takes me for ever to get to sleep and i want to use headphones. The problem is they won't stay in my ears, they keep falling out.

Anyone else have or had this problem?

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I'm trying to train myself to get lucid with music, but if the music is loud enough to hear in the dream, then I can't sleep because it's too loud.