Induction: Music and meditation before sleep

[Goose8]

I recently read a few things on meditation and self hypnosis, just out of curiosity and it didn't really have anything to do with dreaming, it's just techniques to improve concentration and so forth. Then I started drawing connections to it and lucid dreaming and by meditating with the goal of lucid dreaming in mind it kind of helps inducing a WILD. And just to set things straight, I don't believe in transcendental meditation, I believe it could be done though but not in the practice of it, and OBE's and lucid dreams are way different things... What also helps inducing a 'trance' before sleep is mindfully listening to music, as the genre says, Trance music really helps as well as classical music. The music should preferably not have lyrics. While listening to the music, try and imagine patterns and colours or imagine the orchestra performing the work and clear your mind of any clutter. The goals of meditation and listening to music is just to create a cleared state of mind making it easier to focus on obtaining lucidity, doing so for about half an hour to an hour before sleep would suffice. Hope this would be helpful to some of you...

[DinoSawr]

Interesting. Have you personally used this to help you MILD or perform some other technique?

[BlakeE45]

Been doing this kinda thing for a few years myself. I used to use this for VILD'ing all of the time. Helps when you have a strong emotional connection to the music. (Powerful music can influence my emotions easily)

[Goose8]

Have you personally used this to help you MILD or perform some other technique? Well, I rarely get any MILD's and come to think of it, I might try this technique with MILD. Usually MILD's get induced when I dream that something happens to me and I'm supposed to get hurt, but since I don't feel any physical pain in my dreams, I somehow immediately realise that I'm dreaming and it goes lucid. I haven't actually set up any concrete reality checks for myself yet..

[GoldenLight]

Goose8, I use metamusic/hemi-sync when I've been out of practice meditating. It has a deep effect on me during meditation and depending on my goal in meditation helps me focus and visualize. And I think meditating, in general, helps with LD and dream recall. I've never tried this BEFORE sleeping and it's an interesting idea.