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[Earl]

1. if you go to sleep listening to your ipod will you hear it in your dream? 2.if you hear noises while asleep will you hear them in your dream? 3.i also wanted to know if you can use the music advantage (if it works) to induce lucid dreaming. 4.can someone do something while you are sleeping to you to induce lucid dreaming? such as pushing your arm, speaking into your ear, etc. 5.I read something about giving your subconcious a name..? like a name tyhat nobody else knows or a name you don't normally hear.. how does that work? 6.if someone shoots you in the leg with a gun, or chops off your arm, will you feel the full effects of the pain? (thinking about this from the movie inception, one of my favorites.) 7. i also read somewhere else that you can talk to someone in your dream and it's as if you are talking to yourself. is this true?

[francis148]

One night i was dreaming and in dream i was hearing a sound.While i was dreaming i didn't recognized the sound.But when i woke up i found that it was the alarm that was ringing. Every thing around you make difference in your dream.Like taking nap in afternoon you likely to have dream more bright unlike sleeping at night.And every noise and sound around you affect your dreams in someway or other.Calm music(which will not wake you up) or peaceful environment at background can induce a peaceful dream. Some people say about Dream guides( a different type of character in dreams) that they are your subconcious mind and know much better about you.Dream guides unlike other character does not act silly and they know a lot about you.I havn't met mine so i can't tell you much but there are people who can tell you stories about Dream guides. I hope this helped you and i'm not sure about other questions.

[fOrceez]

1. if you go to sleep listening to your ipod will you hear it in your dream? 2.if you hear noises while asleep will you hear them in your dream? 3.i also wanted to know if you can use the music advantage (if it works) to induce lucid dreaming. 4.can someone do something while you are sleeping to you to induce lucid dreaming? such as pushing your arm, speaking into your ear, etc. 5.I read something about giving your subconcious a name..? like a name tyhat nobody else knows or a name you don't normally hear.. how does that work? 6.if someone shoots you in the leg with a gun, or chops off your arm, will you feel the full effects of the pain? (thinking about this from the movie inception, one of my favorites.) 7. i also read somewhere else that you can talk to someone in your dream and it's as if you are talking to yourself. is this true? 1. Depends how loud it is. 2. Depends how loud they are. 3. You can, you can use it to relax yourself. Or as an anchor. However, if you choose to use it as an anchor, make sure the music is repetitive and doesn't have any vocal. If vocal works for you, awesome! But it's never ever worked for me :/ 4. It CAN but it doesn't necessarily mean it will. There's a likely chance that they might just wake you up. 5. Never heard of it, sorry :/ 6. Everything about your dreams are about expectations. If you expect it to hurt, it will. If you don't, surprise! It won't ^__^ 7. What this is referring to is the common theory that your dreams are made by your subconscious. So in a sense, if you are talking to a dream character (which is supposedly made of your subconscious) yes, you are essentially talking to yourself. Hope this helped.

[Zoth]

1. Depends on several things. Some phases of sleep you are more or less alert, but it also depends on personal characteristics (such on you being light or heavy sleep) and even how loud the ipod is. What you can do is trying to set the alarm to the middle/end of a REM cycle, for example after 4.5 hours, 6 hours, 7.5 hours. Those are the best times to wake you up in the middle of the dream. 2. Once again it depends. Some people are dreaming and can still hear sounds, but that's generally because they aren't so immersed in the sleep. Don't expect to hear people talking near you when you're sleeping it's not that common 3. You have to understand it's mostly a placebo. If it works for you, by all means use it. If you think it helps, then it helps. People use it mostly for relaxing like f0rceez said, others use it to meditate, or just an anchor. My suggestion is try and see if you can fall asleep easier with a calm/soft music on. Or you can just use it to calm yourself down before you go to bed. 4. Just like f0rceez said again. External stimules can go both ways. Some devices do that and actually succeed. Give the example of the Dreamlight (or NovaDreamer). It was basically a sort of goggles that would send light beams trough your eyes lids and hopefully include the element in your dream making you lucid. But it wouldn't work if the person wasn't already expecting the sign. Those devices/actions might help, but not to the point where a normal person would become lucid just by using them. 5. Dream guides vary from people to people (like everything dream wise). My friend for example got the name of her DG by asking her, while other people just see an image (or themselves). It's not something you can know without understanding yourself, the essence of a dream guide is unique to the dreamer 6. Forceez said it perfectly. Just notice that it's not that easy to do as it is to talk. Since lucidity is not all the same, meaning you can be more or less lucid in a dream, you can still see a man aiming at you and be like "uh oh!" which probably will make it hurt In practice, you can avoid all kinds of unpleasant sensations by remembering this is a dream. The same works for control 7. Everything in a dream is produced by yourself. Every memory, every DC, every dialogue. It's your brain trying to reproduce the world as you see it, with some exceptions which represent violations on that view. This is important to know because it let's you (if you work for it) experience opinions you have but haven't realized you did. Like that complex of thinking you aren't good enough for this or that. It's quite a hard path, but yes you can use lucid dreaming to get to know yourself if you can solve the puzzles ^^