Doese listening to music effect if you remember your dream?

**Dreammer** · 02-02-2011 05:09 AM

I don't know, but would listening to music. Such as on the radio. Effect if you remember your dream? I don't turn the music onto full blast. More or so medium-low. The music goese from classic to modern. 'Country' to 'Rock' over night. So when I wake up the first thing I hear is a random song or radio advertisement. Would this effect if you recall your dreams?

I use to recall dreams very well, and that was befor listening to the radio. Then I started to at night. No change, till recently? Thus why I'm asking. I'v been dream recalling for a year (Though it hasn't stayed very constant. One month I'll be writing in my dream journal. The next month I won't) and started listening to the radio at night this year.

**Kryx** · 02-02-2011 02:15 PM

On a plane a few weeks ago, I decided to test whether music would carry over into dreams. I put on my headphones fairly close to full blast (the aeroplane hum is loud), playing The Suburbs on loop, and went to sleep. I became lucid with a nose-plug RC, but didn't notice anything special about the sound of the dream - when I recalled it later, there was in fact no music to be heard at all.

What happened next in the dream was a slight surprise. While wandering up a fairly steep street, everything suddenly became dark. Not the "dream-is-ending" kind of dark; I was still in the dream (although I had probably lost my lucidity), but a moonless nighttime darkness had engulfed the scene. Then I noticed a dinosaur rampaging down the street, declared the dream a lost cause, and closed my eyes to wake up.

As the dream faded away and I became conscious of the real world, the music from my headphones slowly faded into audibility. I recognized the song that was just beginning, though - the one that preceded it on the album had a rather abrupt ending. Maybe - and this is a maybe - my dream self couldn't hear the music, but was still aware of it on some level. This would explain the sudden darkness, which would have matched up with the abrupt finish of the song blasting into my physical body's ears.

As a result of this, I posit a method for facilitating dream recall whereby the dreamer listens to a sufficiently long and varied playlist of tracks (no repeats) for the duration of their sleep, then pauses it upon awakening, remembering how far they are through the playlist. The dreamer would then listen to the playlist from the beginning, in the hopes that their memory will be triggered by tracks that they were listening to while in certain dreams. If the dreamer is sufficiently in tune with their sleep cycles, they can skip all the tracks which don't correspond, time-wise, to REM sleep. This way, they save time by only re-listening to tracks that definitely occurred during a dream.

This is probably not very practical for everyday use, because every time you wake up, you have to spend a lot of time re-listening to the playlist. But what the hell, try it. See what happens.

**Shervik** · 02-02-2011 02:32 PM

I have sometimes put the music on really loud when I am taking a day nap. I don't hear the music until i wake up, and I don't feel I remember the dreams more.

But when I go to bed at night I always put a kind of good night song ( a calm ballad or something) on. I feel I don't remember much if it stops before I become asleep. I don't have the song on repeat, then I tend to have bad sleep and wake up in the middle of the night, even if it's at low volume.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 02-02-2011 05:02 PM

In my experience, music (and movies) tends to seep into my dreams, every now and then - usually it's right before I wake up. Every other night, I leave an album or movie looping on my PC, when I go to sleep. Sometimes I will dream about dancing, only to have the music I'm hearing seamlessly bleed into the actual song, as I'm waking up from the dream. Sometimes I'll be dreaming about a gun battle or situation, and wake up with the dream content perfectly bleeding into the actual movie that's playing (at times, word for word, but not always).

A downside to it, though, is that I sometimes find it harder to recall the dreams, upon waking. The reason for this is because, when I wake up, I don't have the silence, with which to focus on recalling my dreams. I have to contend with the audio from the movie or music, that is playing. My computer is across the room from my bed, so if I want to mute it, I have to get out of bed and come over to the computer. By that time, I've already lost a good portion of the dream, before I had the chance to retain it.

it's fun to experiment with, though.

**aktw4** · 02-02-2011 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by Kryx

...declared the dream a lost cause...

What do you mean by this?

**Dreammer** · 02-04-2011 02:36 AM

Okay I see! It differs from person to person. I'll have to see what kind of music 'could' effect my dream. Should be interesting. Unless nothing happens. I'll post it in the month to come.

So this has nothing to do with my question, but pretty cool. My friend who didn't even know what lucid dreaming was, but had one! Only for a brief moment. Her story-
"Yhea I believe in lucid dreaming (once I told her what it was). I had one! Well it was sorta like.....Hey I'm dreaming. Oh my gosh! I'm dreaming!," friend said."Then I woke up"
-The end.

Doese she have skill or what!? She never kept a dream journal or anything. It just happened to her naturally!

**Mathius** · 02-04-2011 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by Dreammer

Okay I see! It differs from person to person. I'll have to see what kind of music 'could' effect my dream. Should be interesting. Unless nothing happens. I'll post it in the month to come.

I'm doing something similar to this i'm seeing if "epic" music played with the WBTB method as i'm going to sleep or triggered to play a little after I fall asleep will induce some kind of historic medieval war or battle of some sort.

**Arra** · 02-04-2011 05:02 AM

I did an experiment in a college physhology class and did not find that listening to classical music during the entire sleep process had any effect on dream recall or any other dream factors that I measured.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 02-04-2011 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Dreammer

Okay I see! It differs from person to person. I'll have to see what kind of music 'could' effect my dream. Should be interesting. Unless nothing happens. I'll post it in the month to come.

So this has nothing to do with my question, but pretty cool. My friend who didn't even know what lucid dreaming was, but had one! Only for a brief moment. Her story-
"Yhea I believe in lucid dreaming (once I told her what it was). I had one! Well it was sorta like.....Hey I'm dreaming. Oh my gosh! I'm dreaming!," friend said."Then I woke up"
-The end.

Doese she have skill or what!? She never kept a dream journal or anything. It just happened to her naturally!

Nice! Tell her about the forums. Maybe she'll be able to get better at them.

**aktw4** · 02-04-2011 02:43 PM

If I'm only lightly sleeping, then music helps me become lucid. Not so much when I'm heavily sleeping.

**Different** · 02-04-2011 05:08 PM

i listen to sub message 3.0 for 15mins b4 i sleep
it helps me quite a lot.

**Dreammer** · 02-06-2011 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Nice! Tell her about the forums. Maybe she'll be able to get better at them.

She's sadly not the kind of person who cares about it much. I don't really find a different in my music type. Though one night I choose not to listen to music at all. (Mainly because the raidio wasn't working. No reception? I have a older kind of radio) here's what happened.-

I had a dream that my cousin ruined my drawing that I have been working on for a week. She's 3 so she scribbled all over it. I was VERY upset in my dream thinking that I would have to start all over.
Then when I woke up actually THINKING that I had to start over and FEELING how upset I was. It only lasted for a minute. Thank goodness!

-What's with that? First time it happened to me, feeling something from a dream. It wasn't a scary dream or anything. Just a dream of me feeling upset and waking up upset. I believe the no music dream thing was an coincident.

**Arra** · 02-06-2011 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Dreammer

What's with that? First time it happened to me, feeling something from a dream. It wasn't a scary dream or anything. Just a dream of me feeling upset and waking up upset. I believe the no music dream thing was an coincident.

I've experienced that. Not often, maybe once every couple months. Having a dream that affects me a lot somehow, and I wake up relieved when I realize it was only a dream. It's usually when the dream is over some huge burden, something I have to do that's extremely stressful. I wake up and am happy and relieved when I realize it was only a dream, and feel like the burden has been lifted.

**Gr8God** · 02-06-2011 10:55 AM

There was a party at my cousins house they got drunk they played music loud anyway it was 2pm I decided to go to sleep in the lounge then in my dream I culd hear Justin Bieber - Baby -_- in my dream then woke up while the song was playing then went bak to sleep lol another time I just had a lucid dream out of nowhere I was listing to my mp3 when i was in bed & accidently went to sleep without turning off my mp3 player so
mostly
throughtout my dream all my fav songs where playing it was cool

**StingPT** · 02-06-2011 11:56 AM

Listening to music does affect your dream recall and might cause a Lucid dream. As Different said listening to subliminal lucid 3.0 which is somewhere in this forum (you will have to search it) can increase your dream recall and maybe cause a Lucid dream PS: there is another subliminal: Subliminal recall, which increases your recall a lot.
I made an experiment last night where I listened to an isochronic tone (lucid dreaming (right click to download) from iso-tones.com) the whole night in loop. It gave me the two biggest and vividest dreams I had. Believe me or not I dreamed the during the whole night, because I frequently woke up and I quickly fell asleep and I continued the dream that way. My main problem is that I have a difficult time to fall asleep with background sounds or lights, so for people who can fall asleep with music it may be a lot more efficient....
I will continue to do this and I will post something if it actually works....

**Dreammer** · 02-09-2011 06:03 AM

I made an experiment last night where I listened to an isochronic tone (lucid dreaming (right click to download) from iso-tones.com) post something if it actually works....

Oh I heard about that! Well found out about it through YouTube. It was on one of those random side bars. It was daytime and I'm not the kind to sleep the day away, apparently when I browsed through peoples commit. It works. Well to there expens it did listening to isochronic tone. Tell me how it goese when you're done!(Out of my own curousty

P.S- What's with the goal colum? I see a lot of people with that. Is it there just for show or seomthing?

**Shervik** · 02-09-2011 03:12 PM

Yeah I tried the lucid dreaming music thing, didn't work for me, I just kept waking up

**Dreammer** · 02-11-2011 04:23 AM

Are you a light sleeper?

**onlylovenilan** · 02-11-2011 08:54 AM

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love reading more on this

topic. If possible, as you gain knowledge, would you mind updating your blog with extra information? It

is extremely useful for me.

**Shervik** · 02-11-2011 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dreammer

Are you a light sleeper?

I don't know really, nothing has woke me up at night, sometimes i just wake up on my own.
maybe I had the volume too loud but whatever, I may test it some other time.

**zobbyblob** · 02-15-2011 04:36 AM

i recently started to listen to music while falling asleep. i found that when my favorite song comes on in my playlist, ill wake up with my eyes closed, and go into semi lucidity, this has happened 4/5 days now. i always get frusterated because when falling back to sleep, i get semilucidity, but cant control whats going on...

**Dreammer** · 02-16-2011 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by zobbyblob

i recently started to listen to music while falling asleep. i found that when my favorite song comes on in my playlist, ill wake up with my eyes closed, and go into semi lucidity, this has happened 4/5 days now. i always get frusterated because when falling back to sleep, i get semilucidity, but cant control whats going on...

I know exactly what you mean! Mostly I can only call a 50 50 shot of semi-lucid dreaming. By that I mean, I think I was sorta lucid dreaming, but not quite sure.
Just last night I was in a semi lucid dream mode.Here's what happened----
I was lost and ended up nocking at a friends door asking if she could breing me home.(Funny thing is. I only lived a block away!) She answered,"Of course!"
Then eventually I ended up in her kitchen with her and her dad talking about random things. My mind was starting to think on it's own. As in'am I dreaming?'. But sadly the dad in the dream lidderly snapped at me saying,"Hey! Are you paying attention!?"
"Yeah! Of course!" I answered a bit jolted by his sudden out burst-----

Then I woke up.......Has something like that happened to you? It happened while listening to meditation music. Don't ask me why I was listening to meditation music. Just curous if it would have any effect. Besides that it was my first semi-lucid dream that I can 100% recall of!

**Dreammer** · 02-16-2011 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by onlylovenilan

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love reading more on this

topic. If possible, as you gain knowledge, would you mind updating your blog with extra information? It

is extremely useful for me.

Sure I can.
Update my blog where? From here, I can, but somewhere else not so sure. (Will have to wait till I get onto a computer next time. I'm mostly on my iPod)