Music While Attempting to WILD?

**rhiannon** · 11-21-2010 04:26 PM

Maybe some Pink Floyd? A lot of their music I find really soothing and fall asleep to it often. If I listen to it while trying to WILD, it would relax me, plus I could concentrate on the lyrics to keep my mind awake....right?

Or do I have it totally wrong? Will this hurt my WILD success chances?

- Haven't yet had a successful WILD after months of trying.

**Puffin** · 11-21-2010 04:31 PM

It doesn't hurt to try. The music might end up in your dream though, which can be SUPER annoying, depending on how the dream distorts it.

**rhiannon** · 11-21-2010 04:32 PM

I might go try it now... thankyou!(:

**Ketsuyume** · 11-22-2010 01:42 AM

One of my very few WILD's that didn't involve waking up from sleep first involved having trance music playing in the background. I actually saw hypnagogic images and could feel my dream body floating around in blackness WHILE I was listening to this song....

...so much so that upon awakening I googled the lyrics and found the song.

So yes, Floyd is a good choice too, but ya gotta choose your tracks wisely.

Tracks like, "On the Run" were MEANT to help induce altered states of consciousness, but they're simply a digital form of a drug... a tool that you shouldn't rely on forever, because in the end anything will limit you.

Think of certain types of music like training wheels on a bike. A great start, but you can only get so far using it before you have to take them off and do the rest on your own.

Good luck!