Calming sounds and dreams

[Dylan]

My mom bought me this digital clock that plays calming sounds on it as well... for example 'Ocean Waves', 'Rain Forest', 'Rain Storm', 'Water fall', "Heart beat', "White sound', etc. There are a few more, but you get the idea. Does anyone else have one of these? I don't really know how research is done here, but if anyone was interested, it might be neat to see how the dreams are affected when different calming sounds are being played while you sleep. For example a week of 'Ocean Waves', and then another week of 'Tropical Rain Forest', and another with 'Heart beat', and so on. I'm working on better dream recall, and I can't always remember all of my dreams as well as I'd like... so I'd like to get a couple more experienced people on board, if some of you guys are interested (and have clocks like this, or other ways of looping sound... like nature cds where you could loop a track or something). How does that sound? Cheers, Dylan

[Placebo]

I'd love to get my hands on a clock like that... Can you buy this online perhaps? They might be really useful for dream signs I used to occasionally leave a tap dripping - and have a water dreamsign. Worked well. I'd have a dream with something involving water, and become lucid ...

[Dylan]

Yes, perhaps you should get one... and NOT WASTE WATER! . Here's the one I have. What are people thinking about this experiment though? Anyone "down"? Cheers, Dylan

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by Dylan Yes, perhaps you should get one... and NOT WASTE WATER! . Here's the one I have. What are people thinking about this experiment though? Anyone \"down\"? Cheers, Dylan This sounds like a really interesting idea man. I can't participate though because ANY noise keeps me up at night. I'd have to get used to it or something I guess. How about anyone else???? Anybody want to give this a go???

[Howie]

I do not have an alarm clock but I do have a number of CD's that have calming sounds. One infact is called music for dreaming. The others are enchanted forest, thunderstorms, etc. I have listened to them but they have never led to any particular events that I can associate with any of my dreams the nights that I listened to them. Also I am like OpeliaBlue, I am a very light sleeper and most any noise anoys me. Somtimes as I listen to the CD's I find they are keeping me up rather than calming me down. I would not think this would be the norm though. You would think calming music would do just that. calm you down. I do notice that most people who have a steady noise like a fan rather than a noise that alternates frequencies tend to say that it helps them go to sleep. This is just from my own personal expieriance and some of the people I have talked to.

[Amethyst Star]

I wouldn't mind getting in on this, but I do have trouble falling asleep with noise. On the contrast, I also can't seem to get to sleep unless my fan is running....stupid white noise. I think I could get used to simple sounds like that playing softly in the background, but I'm not sure when I'd be able to afford one of those clocks...tho they seem cool. ^----my 2 bits -Amé

[bmx-life™]

Anynoe know how to go about geting the CD Alarm thingy on Vinilla Sky?

[Torcher]

I've got an awesome floor fan that sounds like a low-volume airplane engine. I'm a fan of mechanical drone noises, like air conditioners, refrigerators, the ocean can be included, and obviously floor fans. ceiling fans suck because they have a tendency to get off-balance and make ipromptu clicking noises...but a floor fan...man...so awesome. as far as the experiment...I can change up between the normal music I listen to when I go to sleep and others, such as complete silence, classical music, celtic stuff, and then metal. I can go to sleep with just about any noise so long as it has a pattern. I've gone straight to sleep with no problem while listening to old Korn on headphones turned all the way up. So yeah, I can use my own version of sound-aids to join in this test of the audio kind.

[Torcher]

Got an experiment based off this one that I'm using tonight. I have a playlist that begins with very calming music, most of it ambient. Later on down the list the nature of the songs take on the percussive element. By the time these songs play I should be well asleep, but the beats from these later songs, which are trance tracks/club music, should lighten my sleep to the point of LD. I'm going off the principle idea of the novadreamer, in that it blinks a light wt you when it notices REM. I just have to gt lucky and be in REM at the right time with this one. I'll post a followup if it worked or not.

[Howie]

Rather than relieing on luck I wonder if you could apply a technique to this? The Music technique. As some people do, they try to incubate Lucid dreaming by repeating to themselves, I am going to remember to recognize that I am dreaming. In this case, if you a familiar with the songs, maybe you could say to yourself - I will realize I am dreaming when I here (whatever song you choose, later on in the CD) Let us know how it goes torcher

[Howie]

Originally posted by bmx-life™ Anynoe know how to go about geting the CD Alarm thingy on Vinilla Sky? Now it seem that when you rent a DVD that a lot of the newer movies come with a sound thrack CD as well. Maybe you could rent the movie and burn the sound track if you have the capabilities.