Thread: Read this if you play music while sleeping.

I was just reading on the internet that listening to music while falling to sleep has an effect on your dreams. Various people have confirmed this and said it creates some interesting and enjoyable dreams. One said that basically you choose what sort of dream you have depending on what music you listen to while sleeping. Tonight i have created a playlist on my ipod, songsthat i think would effect my dreams in a good way. I'm sure alot of you already listen to music going to sleep so whats your experiences with it?

Interested in trying it.

This is also meant to induce lucid dreams somehow aswell. My plan is that the music will make my dreams so strange that i will become lucid.

Music induced lucid dreams...hmm I remember trying that.

I have tried this technique at least 300 times, but it never helped with lucid dreams,because I can't sleep with anything stuck in my ears all night, but that's just me.

What this method mostly did for me was make me perfectly memorize the songs. I STILL can't get them out of my head after 3 years. I even memorized the track lists.

Originally Posted by Zakar

What this method mostly did for me was make me perfectly memorize the songs. I STILL can't get them out of my head after 3 years. I even memorized the track lists.

That's what happens to me, but not for 3 years!!!

I do sleep with the TV on though. A boring channel like golf or the news, so I don't get startled. I also set the sleep timer... I can't sleep in silence.

I can't sleep with music. Ambient noise, perhaps, but not actual music. Music is too interesting to fall asleep to! Even with ambient noise, I have to take the headphones off after an hour or so, otherwise my ears are super uncomfortable and red when I wake up.

Yea, im like you Michael... i have the tv on with the timer, or at very least the radio on a talkback station. if its silent it takes me longer to go to sleep...

an i never use headphones. i just have it on enough so u can hear it well but its not too loud...

I used to listen to music while going to sleep some time ago. I do think I had more vivid dreams and they were pretty nice. I'd listen to relaxation music so the real reason could also have been my deep level of relaxation...

Originally Posted by Abra

I can't sleep with music. Ambient noise, perhaps, but not actual music. Music is too interesting to fall asleep to!

I have this exact problem, I can sleep with binaural beats on, no problem, but as soon as I try to sleep with music I can't fall asleep for the life of me. It's like it keeps my brain "busy" or something and I just can't tune out (pun intended?). I'm going to try Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn tonight, just to see if I can make that work, possibly instrumental stuff without any lyrics will be better. Also, going to try some Buckethead stuff too, again sans-lyrics. Maybe Electric Tears, that one has special meaning for me, I made a "First Two Years" photo dvd with about 1600 pics of our daughter using that as the background music. Who knows, might stir up some vivid imagery.

I thought about putting some music on last night to fall asleep to, I find it so relaxing no matter what it is. Last night I had the computer on but the fan was pissing me about and kept me up, then my Sky+ box started making noises. This was about 4am and was getting so annoyed that I was too awake to sleep.

I thought about putting on music, but couldn't be bothered. When I was younger I would always listen to music when sleeping

Originally Posted by Phydeaux_3

I'm going to try Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn tonight, just to see if I can make that work, possibly instrumental stuff without any lyrics will be better.

Well, I tried Ommadawn last night, I was able to sleep but nothing in terms of dream results. I am going to try Electric Tears tonight, see if I can sleep to that one. I'll loop the whole album instead of just 1 track. I suspect that it may jog some imagery of the kids if nothing else.

Originally Posted by ld master

I was just reading on the internet that listening to music while falling to sleep has an effect on your dreams. Various people have confirmed this and said it creates some interesting and enjoyable dreams. One said that basically you choose what sort of dream you have depending on what music you listen to while sleeping. Tonight i have created a playlist on my ipod, songsthat i think would effect my dreams in a good way. I'm sure alot of you already listen to music going to sleep so whats your experiences with it?

Interested in trying it.

This is also meant to induce lucid dreams somehow aswell. My plan is that the music will make my dreams so strange that i will become lucid.

Perhaps this works in the same way brainwave entrainment sound waves do...at any rate, on numerous occasions I can recall listening to music while sleeping and hearing the song in my dream only to wakeup and hear it still on the radio. Didn't do much for an LD but it was still pretty cool.

I had to stop listening to Silent Hill music because I kept getting nightmares, lol.

I've fallen asleep with my ipod on quite a few times, for me I've found that the song thats playing really affects the plot of my dream.

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At some point, when I get some free time, I'm gonna write a 10-12 hour song that will have a few words in there about the time; maybe every hour it will say "4 o'clock" or whatever. Of course that depends on when I start the song. I'll probably just have it be a simple loop. Any suggestions for other things to put in it? If and when I ever get this done, I'll post a link here.

I had met this kid who once fell asleep with his music on, and in the dream he wanted to turn up the volume, and he actually did, then he woke up :XD:

I need noise to get to sleep too but its normally constant noise like an air cleaner or heater, I've had real good luck listening to idoser or chill techno music to get to sleep, it doesnt effect lucidness much but being able to get to sleep in under 15 minutes each time is really useful, it doesnt fail in 10 minutes I'm out lol