Mmmmmmmmm, insomnia....I swear I need to start an Insomnia Club here or something. |
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about a week ago i decided i wanted to learn more about lucid dreaming, so the past few nights i have just been doing some beggining steps, like being able to recall my dreams, write them down and remember them. Now, every night before i fall asleep, my boyfriend and i like to listen to music, last night we did, and i had a hard time remembering my dream, or evening knowing i was dreaming. the other night, i was fully aware, and we had no music on, DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MUSIC? The other thing is, last night, i woke up crying, really crying, i do remember bits and pieces of the dream, but nothing like i did the other night, now, could the music we were playing have effected my reaction to the dream? |
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Mmmmmmmmm, insomnia....I swear I need to start an Insomnia Club here or something. |
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A friend of mine once told me that a nurse taught her this trick when she was in the hospital as a kid, and it if you're desperate this might just be crazy enough to work is to systematicly trying to tense up your muscles, starting with your toes, and go up and hold the tension, and then suddenly release and relax... I tried it and I swear if you can manage to really tense up and hold EVERYTHING (which takes quite some effort) and then suddenly relax its like you get a major headrush and I actually fell right asleep after it. Once. |
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To me it sounds like with the music you may be more focused on that than on the dream. How vivid/detailed are your dreams that you can recall? Do you remember hearing the music in your dreams? If so, you could try using that as a dreamsign and whenever you hear music you can try and perform a RC (reality check, there's another tutorial on that). Have you tried sleeping without music at all? or a different kind of music? Like Ophelia, I can't sleep with noise unless I'm psychotically tired or something. |
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"If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."
yeah i have to agree with ame on this, i think the music may distract you from your intention to LD. |
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I agree with Damascus in saying that music might distract you, but I found that the SoundScapes (.mp3's) on www.lucidquest.com help. Some are pretty cool, some are just weird, but they're supposed to be (mathmatically) created to help produce Theta waves in your brain...or something along those lines, haha. And also, about tensing up your muscles and then relaxing...the track and field coach at our scool made us do that, and it does make you tired. Not very good for running, but he's got lots of experience so we all listen. Of course it could just be senility...anyways, good luck! |
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"There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't."
- Some dude
i have heard a whole song in an ND i had recently... so reall.... |
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