Thread: My experiments with music

This is a really interesting thread! I have got to try this, although I have some trouble sleeping with headphones. It seems like I tend to throw them of in my sleep, because I always find them on the floor when I wake up. Hmm, Maybe I could use some speakers instead, if I play low ambient music then it shouldn't bother anyone in the adjacent rooms anyway.

Thanks for the inspiration and the interesting thread!

Hey there OP. Very interesting thread, I want to try this as well. What kind of headphones do you use for this and where did you get em?

Thanks to the previous two posters for taking the time to read my thread and comment.
Using speakers is a viable alternative. Sometimes I have used my bedside CD player without the headphones and gained similar results. Interestingly through, the music usually only appears on headphones in the dream if I actually use headphones while asleep, not the CD player. This must be something to do with the fact that I can feel the pressure from the headphones on my ears while I'm sleeping, my guess.
I use Sennheiser HD 435 headphones by the way. Good chunky ones with comfortable padded ear pads. They are large, but they do the job, and I don't have any problems sleeping on my back with them on.

Been a while since I last updated this thread, but I return with an experience from just this morning.
I wasn't using headphones this time, instead having music playing from the CD player set up beside my bed.
In the dream I was in my bedroom watching something on the TV with a friend of mine. I noticed that the music I had on was playing from the same CD player across the room. After switching it off and removing the CD, the music still played, and this alerted me to the fact that I was dreaming.
Next thing I knew, I was in the shower having a wash. I could still hear the music, so I could use it to remind myself that this was still a dream. I was thinking about what to do, and then I noticed the door to the shower room was open slightly. This gave me the idea of trying to summon a friend of mine to walk through that door by will power. It took a few seconds, but lo and behold, she entered. I guess I can call that a success.

That's my first good lucid experience in quite a while. It may also have helped that I had a really riveting conversation with someone the previous day about lucid dreaming.

Another successful excursion this morning folks.
I had my CD player by my bed again, and I dreamed of being at home taking part in a Psychodynamic seminar (which I had done earlier in the day in real life). I heard the music playing and it was kind of distracting me from the speaker, so I reached back to turn it off. Upon pressing the button though, the music carried on, and I fortunately caught on to the fact that this must be a dream.
I calmly got up and climbed out of the window. It was dark outside, and I shouted as loud as I could the name of one of my fellow colleagues into the night, hoping that she would appear. While I waited, I attempted turning the night into day by clicking my fingers while stating the command, but this failed to work. Now standing on my front garden, I noticed a car approaching from around the corner. Sure enough, the person whose name I had shouted was driving it, and she stopped near my house. I went to speak with her, and saw that there were also two people in the back seats who I did not know. But unfortunately, I suddenly woke up mid-sentence.
But that was still a good experience; I am happy that I was able to summon someone I knew, and that I was able to act calmly and consciously without doing anything rash or crazy.

typing in ps3 atm

use sound as a focus anchor during wild,
and use the creative musical tones as a driving force for creating dream worlds as you fall into a lucid dream.
the sound provides additional amusement so u dont get bored and fall into sleep
engage the senses along with visualization when you feel you are ready to enter a lucid dream

optional. meditate and mimic inception during the dream to get rid of the music and gain deeper states of consciousness

typing in ps3 atm

use sound as a focus anchor during wild,
and use the creative musical tones as a driving force for creating dream worlds as you fall into a lucid dream.
the sound provides additional amusement so u dont get bored and fall into sleep
engage the senses along with visualization when you feel you are ready to enter a lucid dream

optional. meditate and mimic inception during the dream to get rid of the music and gain deeper states of consciousness

Wow, just had a pretty amazing dream this morning whilst listening to some of my own music.

It seemed to be the setting of a film which I was simultaneously experiencing and being a part of at the same time, at least that's how it feels now looking back on it. The music I was playing seemed to form the soundtrack of the film, and it sounded even more beautiful than it does in reality. I was overcome with emotions, for the fact that I had made this music and for the loss of one of the characters in the dream. I was literally crying out loud on the ground.

But the tone of the dream shifted shortly afterwards to something more calm, featuring a nude beach and a voice-activated shower. I find it interesting though that the music didn't seem to be affecting the dream from here on, at least I didn't hear it after that emotional moment. So it seems the combination of a particular part of the music, its transformation by the dream, and the dream context itself, was able to trigger some intense emotions for me. Cool or what?

Cool. I had a similar experience where i was "singing" my own instrumental songs and then the music echoed throughout the dream with a full orchestra and some guitars... It was so beautiful. Like it was the recording that i wanted to be if i had the opportunity to record with an orchestra with high quality sound.

That's great. It's interesting to know there's a method that can have similar effects for both of us. Both of us could make use of this to further our musical creations. By the way, for those who are interested, I plan to release the CD I was using some time this year, once I fixed the flaws in the mixing and done some track improvements.