Nightmare all reality checks failed... I'm so happy it was all a dream

[TheSixthSide]

Oh my god guys I just had one of the scariest dreams I've had in awhile. I did multiple reality checks and they was failing and working at the same time, but it was all so confusing I thought I was going insane at one point in the dream. I'd like to start off my saying that I don't think I'll be making a "Sleep-to playlist" anymore. I have made 2 in the past night. The first one was all Led Zeppelin and last night my cat, my cousin, and a friend from work had all broken their legs by falling out of trees (very weird, but it wasn't a nightmare to me). Tonight I made another playlist and all hell broke loose in my dream. This was the playlist I made as follows: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Rush - Limelight Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do Jimi Hendrix - Red House The Beatles - I am the Walrus The Beatles - I want you (She's So Heavy) John Lennon & Rolling Stones - Yer Blues (Live) ZZ Top - La Grange Guns N Roses - Patience My dream started off or well I don't know what was reality and what wasn't to be honest all I know is that when I woke up I was scared to death that the song was going to start playing again... I went to bed at 1AM... It is now 3:30AM That means I probably went through only like 2-3 sleep cycles which isn't enough REM at all to do anything with yet this was my only dream that I can remember. Anyways onto the dream. Sometime during the night I must have been getting tired of hearing music while sleeping and wanted to get up and turn it off. (this part is what I know is real) Well... I woke up and was laying in bed I could hear the music playing and was getting scared, because I could feel something evil in my room. I lied there trying to remain calm and talk myself out of what I thought was there. The song that was playing was (Yer Blues). I started seeing HI again and knew I was falling back to sleep all was well. (From here on out I have no idea whats reality and what wasn't) I woke again and everything was very distorted felt like the room was spinning. I woke up to the lyrics of "The eagle picks my eye, The worm he licks my bones, I feel so suicidal, Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones... (and so on)" I got up fell out of bed and I couldn't see anything. I got frantic because I wanted the music off. It dawned on me this was the second time I had woke up to this ungodly song and was scared to death. I crawled over to my speakers which was suppose to have a blue light shining from them to say they were on. They were off, but the music was still playing. I freaked out and what little I could see everything went totally black and it's like I passed out. Again I wake up and feel my body in my bed. I lay still trying to make myself go back to sleep. I wake up to the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Which if any of you know both of these tunes have an eerie tune to them. This song is playing when I wake up and I think "Didn't I just turn this stupid stuff off" I couldn't remember if I had woken up before, but knew that I had tried some how at one point and I started getting a little scared that something was going on. After I thought this I fell back to "sleep". Everything just always seem to go pitch black. Ok here is were I totally flip out, because I start to recall everything that I had done before and even the evil thing in my room. I find myself on my bed. Dawn is approaching as there is little light shining underneath the blinds through my window. I'm sitting on my bed practicing "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" with my guitar and I an multi effects pedal sitting on my bed also. Again I'm tired of hearing of this song. I go to press MY EFFECTS PEDAL TO TURN THE MUSIC OFF (WHY?!) The pedal goes off the music is still playing, how can this be?? I recall everything at this point. The evil spirit or whatever it was in my room. The other awakenings and the music not going off. I start flipping out, but I still don't know that it's all a dream. I look in my mirror and see myself and hear the music playing. It's all plain as day that this must be waking life. I grab my effects pedal and take it downstairs. No matter where I go I hear the music. It's everywhere and it's so scary to me. I'm in my kitchen and lay the effects pedal on the table. I'm pacing the floor trying to figure out what to do. I see my dads basement door open. I look down there and there are lights on. The music is also coming from down in the basement too. (It's the constant repeating of the intro which is also the outro.) I get freaked out more than I already am, because I feel the presence of that evil coming from down there and slowly making it's way up. I run back into the kitchen I think "Ok, ok, reality check. Do an RC... Which one though??" I grab my nose and try to breathe. I can breathe!!! Omg I can breathe. No... my mind tricks me. I think "I wasn't holding my nose tight enough." I do the RC again, same results. I can breathe while holding my nose. I think "No! I can still breathe while holding my nose. I can't even hold my nose right to stop breathing..." How stupid of me!! I don't even have faith in myself that I can grab my nose right to do an RC. My brain then says,"Your not dreaming. This is reality." I start panicking. I'm flipping out. I yell throughout myself "I don't know what's real and what's fake anymore..." I take off towards the table again grab the effects pedal and rip off the back to take the batteries out, because I know it will end the music. No batteries... I slam it on the table and fall down on my kitchen floor and start crying, because I have no idea whats going on. The music starts to fade though... I wake up one last time. The song was still playing on my Media Player, but it was at the very end. I turned it off and thanked God it was all a dream. I turned my speakers off so it couldn't come on anymore. I got on Windows Live and my friend was on. I saw "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" as a now-playing song as what I had been playing and freaked out one more time thinking I was dreaming again. I had just forgot to exit out of media player and windows live picked it up like I was listening to it... Jeez guys you have no idea how intense and real this dream was... I don't think I should ever make another playlist. And even those awakenings that I had... I know I had a few more in between, because I'd wake up hearing different music, but instantly fall back asleep. Those are the ones that lasted though and seemed to blend together. I'm so happy to be awake... Although I'm going to need more sleep, because I have work today. Gah... WISH ME SWEET DREAMS PLEASE!

[Hazel]

Wow, that sounds really scary! Isn't it strange how external noises can affect our dreams? Seeing as how I like nightmares (for some odd reason. . .) now I'm going to try this playlist thing and see if anything happens.

[Jimmehboi]

Yea, music is a great idea when you're sleeping as long as you know what to pick, remember, you can go on websites that tell you what things mean in your dreams if you see them, but it is almost completely useless, as the mojority of situations you dream of are affected by what has happened in real waking life. Let me give you an example (From http://www.dreammoods.com) Buzzard To see a buzzard in your dream, symbolizes death and decay. It may represent an ugly aspect of yourself. So, just as a random example, if someone happened to be the owner of a buzzard and they had a dream about it, we all know its hardly going to mean what the dictionary said. So knowing this, it's easy to see that particular tones and pitches can have a massifve influence the whole nature of your dreams. Rock and metal is probably one of the worst choices available, a lot of it is heavy and fast paced, potentially making your dreams as such. If you still want to maybe carry on using music, I suggest trying different music that's slower with softer tones. From my own experience, I suggest this playlist:- Enigma - Sadness Enigma - Principals of Lust Enigma - Black Moon Dance Chicane - Saltwater Stone Temple Pilots - A song for sleeping (Ironically I find this a perfect choice ) Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful (And yes, here comes Moby ) Moby - Porcelain Moby - Extreme ways Moby - In this world Moby - Slipping away Moby - In my heart Most of these songs have a very soft nature, some get a bit faster, but there's no dramatic changes in fast pace, which are well known to lead to a feeling of panic. Tell me what you think

[TheSixthSide]

Well you know the weird thing is I rarely do RC's in my dreams. I'm kind of a lucid skimper. I've always wanted to be able to do it, but it's almost like I don't have the determination for some reason. This time I did two RC's and even thought out how I would turn the music off (by taking the batteries out of my effects pedal). I've never did that before. I can remember my dreams well, but other than that I have a hard time remembering to do RC's. Another thing I went back to bed, around 4am, and I don't remember any dreams. I slept until 10am, but still I have no recollection of any dreams except my nightmare.

[shotbirds]

The only emotion i don't feel in a dream is being afraid. IF i do have a nightmare, i never get scared. But i do get really sad and happy in dreams.

[jankai]

Now after reading that i have this feeling that you are trying to hard to LD.. The thing with the music was interesting to read, i think mabe having the task in your head of turning your music off is what set you off and while dreaming that was your last thought and you had to do it. I have done things like that before but am an experienced Lucid Dreamer so i havn't had an experience that bad before. very interesting i must say, but your playlist doesnt have anything really to do with it the music itself isn't fast enough or eratic enough to do that to you, my theory is it was just your subcontuse wanting you to turn your music off but you were to dazed and confused to realise what was real and what wasn't.

[TheSixthSide]

I think I have been trying to lucid too hard lately. I have been waking myself up during the night by my alarm clock going off and going back to bed for no reason sort of. I figured I could find my sweet spot to WILD. The whole thing with the music was just to listen to some stuff to see if it effected my dreams. Another reason that I put it on was to see if it would keep my somewhat in touch with reality while dreaming. We all wake up in the middle of the night a few times for a few seconds and go back to bed and forget that we did. I figured the music would some how make me more aware of those times. I guess it did in a way. Maybe my mind got tired of those repeating songs and wanted them off? I don't know. I'll try it again tonight maybe, but put a lot more songs so they won't repeat through the night to get me aggetated. I used to sleep with music playing through my headphones all the time. Really hard rock and stuff and never had a dream like this. I would just wake up and rip the headphones off. This time it was playing out of my computer speakers. So it was filling the whole room. Should I try it again tonight you think?

[jankai]

i think you should try it again, but relax more and make sure you have music on which wont anoy you. my playlist is this: Nine inch Nails - The great below VNV Nation - Legion Live VNV Nation - solitary Signals Version Peatbog Fairies - Mellowsity Peatbog fairies - croftwork The Streets - Stay positive Vitalic - Bells Vitalic - you are my son The Verve - Bittersweet synthony Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad Moby - South Side Nine Inch Nails - Zero Sum Thats the best playlist i have over the years, differs in taste and style helping your mind open up and i never have my music on repeat because it doesn't really help me and it tans my battery

[Jimmehboi]

Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad Moby - South Side a playlist entirely of Moby would probably work well

[jankai]

well hell yeah it would but moby changes in stlyes in certain songs which is ace tbh, but you cant just tan moby all the time you need somthing else somthing with the same effect. Just my opinion anyway

[Hazel]

I feel pretty stupid now: I scared myself to death last night. I woke up to some weird alarm, but it turns out it was the cash register from the Pink Floyd song 'Money.' Well, I decided to put the voice recorder on my MP3 player to good use, and recorded the dream I just had. I decided to listen to it to see if it worked. While I was listening, I thought I heard my brother moan, "Ooooohhhhhh goooosssshhhhh!" so I took one of the ear buds out of my ear. The next thing I know, my mp3 player made this AWFUL racket! It scared me to death and took me forever to get back to sleep!

[jankai]

I feel pretty stupid now: I scared myself to death last night. I woke up to some weird alarm, but it turns out it was the cash register from the Pink Floyd song 'Money.' Well, I decided to put the voice recorder on my MP3 player to good use, and recorded the dream I just had. I decided to listen to it to see if it worked. While I was listening, I thought I heard my brother moan, "Ooooohhhhhh goooosssshhhhh!" so I took one of the ear buds out of my ear. The next thing I know, my mp3 player made this AWFUL racket! It scared me to death and took me forever to get back to sleep! LMAO thats stupid, well atleast you got a funny story from it