Thread: Music that captures the mood of Lucid Dreaming.

Well the art thread seemed to go down well,
So here's one for music that captures the mood of lucid dreaming....

Here's one that is a personal favourite, I think you'll all like it, mostly for the chorus! you'll see what i mean when you hear it. (and probably isn't played much outside of the UK)

"Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__p_MbzZ6LE


And also the classic by the Verve...
(In fact, I almost forgot about this one, until I saw the picture in the Art thread by Dreamqueen.)



"Catching the Butterfly - The Verve"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kpSpzobkY


Here's some of the lyrics:


"I'm gonna keep catching that butterfly
In that dream of mine
I'm gonna keep catching that butterfly
In that dream of mine

In my lucid dreams
In my lucid dreams"

O yea baby! I'm a gonna keep catchin' that butterfly too

Rad song!!! I love it!!!

I'll post some of my fav LD music later. I gotta go do housework now...

xx

Anything Sigur Ros, basically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWEkam9H4w

Just look at this video, (from Vanilla Sky) the beginning scene when they're on top of the building. It looks so much like a vivid lucid (everything down to the sky, the guy checking his watch, the other guy falling, sort of muffled sounds in the big city, etc). Not to even mention the music. It's unbelievable IMO.

Anything Animal Collective plays. I actually use it to go lucid in dreams quite often.

Animal Collective - My Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

Animal Collective - Water Curses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GZLRxVzvg

Map of the Problematique -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyLx0qc_gKc

I believe we've had a thread on this before but I cannae be arsed to find it so I'll post on this one

Erm..
Vaporous by Elsiane is good... as is the video which is here

Oh and @ Xox, loving the Sigur Ros

Nice one Xox, made me decide to order Vanilla Sky from Netflix as well. The music I found may seem odd to you, because it is from a video game, and not just that, a Mario game. I personally think the music sounds very surreal, and for me at least, captures that "dream feeling" you get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHLw8...e=channel_page

I like this video. Others may not but it gets to me because it has always been one of my favourite songs even before I was into LD. Plus, music sometimes sounds like this in my dreams. It's kind of "wrong" somehow. It helps if you know the lyrics. Anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8i1A...eature=related

ANYTHING by "explosions in the sky"
some of the most beautiful moving music i have ever listened to...very light and airy mood relaxes you very well

Originally Posted by flipsid3

ANYTHING by "explosions in the sky"

Good call. <3 You're so right.
Do you like Pelican too? Heavier, but still so soothing.
P.S. I love your avatar. A friend of mine has that as a tattoo.
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I love/hate threads on music, because I always get that nagging feeling I'm forgetting something.
It's like when I get to a good record store and completely blank.


Some things that capture the essence of lucid dreams that I forgot:

• The K-Pax Soundtrack - watch out for tracks #5 and #8 though, the've been known to cause nightmares; #9 might be a sad dream
• Four-Tet - can't stop listening to these guys right now
• Nirvana songs played as children's lullabies [musicboxes, glockenspiels, etc.] - by Baby Rock Records; they do other bands too, i.e: Bjork, Tool, Zepplin, Bob Marley Smashing Pumpkins, and more [including The Pixies and Radiohead ones I have to get]
• The Flaming Lips album Zaireeka - when you get all 4 discs and have 4 stereos to play them at once
• Sigur Ros
• Pelican

Actually, aside from MBV, this list might be more on point than my first. Hearing these bands makes my mind picture fantasy dreamscapes.

I find that music with indiscernable/foreign language/no lyrics at all tend to work the best.

All the better for emotional ambiguity.



<--i love how that little guy just keeps on trying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEzkJZK9uc

boards of canada, animal collective, aphex twin, efterklang, tunng, harold budd, isan, robert rich

I think any instrumental band or post rock captures the dream feeling perfectly.

Some good ones are:

Sigur Ros (not really insturmental, but the vocals are basically another instrument)
Explosions in the Sky
God is an Astronaut
The Album Leaf
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Russian Circles
Red Sparrowes
This Will Destroy You

Some other non-instrumentals are Radiohead (especially Amnesiac), Silversun Pickups, Broadcast (Really cool analog sounding synth stuff), Anekdoten (really sick prog rock) and anything Dub.