To brand music into something you associate with dreaming and playing them while asleep, now that sounds like a great idea. Ive mostly been playing lucid dreaming instructions and hypnotic lucid dreaming inductions while asleep. But soft electronic music mixed with recordings of myself saying “This is a dream, you are dreaming right now…” is also a favourite. Not that i recall it has made me more lucid
Chicane - Overture
Chicane - Early
I don’t know if I’m crossing a line here, so please edit the post if i am, but willingness to share lucid inductions be here. Some of them are swedish, but i’ve noticed there are quite the number of scandinavians on the forum. Here is the link anyhow.
Okay, Space Distortion has now been posted. This is just the wave wash with drones and tones (no vocals are other sounds). Everyone is very welcome, but I dont want to underhand Tamas Labs. This is only 1 part of 4 tracks on the Space Distortion release. If you like it, please purchase some full cd releases by Tamas Labs, let’s keep them in business so they can keep putting out great stuff. I beleive in supporting folks who are doing great things out there!
I have a CD I have listened to for years(?) called Ambient Music for Sleep, and not every night but often I play it before going to bed. For whatever reason I never thought about it as an RC but a few nights ago I dreamt I was in photography class and heard that music. BAM! Lucid!. Has anyone had much/any success w/ music and reality checks?
I tried it once before with a Flaming Lips CD but whenever I heard the song I RC 'ed on I woke up.
I’m taking note of all your suggestions with interest. I was just wondering : do you let the music play all-night-long or do you use a Sleep function ?
I admit that if the music stops when you’re sleeping, you can’t hope for hearing it from your dreams, but on the contrary, doesn’t it wake you up ? How do you set the music volume ?
Hi all,
I tried to sleep listening to this mp3 previously cited.
Went to bed around midnight, on the back. 'must say that I wasn’t pretty reassured by this atsmosphere at first
Finally, I catch some light sleep. At 1:30AM, the CD player takes me out of this resting state (rewind noise that I hadn’t expected). I was still on the back, feeling particularly hot, and with some strange sensation around the throat. I didn’t want to move, but I finally had to. The music was getting on my nerves so I stopped it, I slept on my side and made ND’s.
Around 7AM, I woke up. I set the music to play, slept (on the side), made other ND’s, but when I woke up at 11:30, music had stopped so I can’t know if I slept with or without.
Well, can you tell me if sleeping with music all-night-long is advisable for LDs ? And what about the volume ?
I like a lot of the music mentioned here, but when I sleep I prefer much more ambient and low music. I’ve made a mp3 cd which I play on random when I sleep. Radiohead is my favorite band, so its got some of their instramental tracks like hunting bears and treefingers. It also has a lot of brian eno, specefically his songs for airports. Also there is some instrumental spiritualized, moodswings, boards of canada. Moss Garden by David Bowie is another good ambient toon to snooze to.
I usually listen to the internet radio, which has a wide selection of music. They have a bunch of ambient electronic music which is great for sleeping and dreaming.
The best site is shoutcast.com, but you can browse even easier if you have winamp. Just search for “ambient” and there should be a few stations that are good. There is one called the “Dream Factory” which plays a lot of ambient tribal stuff, the “DroneZone” which has some darker, more industrial soundscapes, and “Cryosleep” which guarantees zero-beat (ambient sounds only). These have worked the best for me and even help me to fall asleep faster. The best part is that they are free and always play different stuff.
I’m bound to say this, but seriously have a listen to my music. I make a lot of this when it’s getting late, and usually end up thinking about lucid dreaming while finishing a song off, so I can go to bed and try and lucid dream.
Some of my tracks have names that came from dreams, which is really strange.
I find that some Aphex Twin tracks seem to induce LDs for me (2 semi LDs in 2 nights with barely any special technique). Windowlicker is a nice track and some of his other works under other names (Polygon Window for example) are rather relaxing too.