Classical for the dreaming mind

[cainam_nazier]

Your enviroment affects your sleeping state profoundly. Everything, from what you are wearing, to what you hear, and smell can affect your dream state.

It is very common for people to listen to various tyes of music during sleep to achieve different things.  It is all a matter of finding out how different sounds affect you personally.  

The most anoying and repeating thing I have happen to me is my alarm clock.  When it goes off I while I am asleep and dreaming I will often have dreams that something else in the dream is making the noise.  Usually some thing that would not normally make noise, like a chair.  In the dream I find myself looking for the noise and track it to the object.  I usually try to get it to stop and often in the end I break the object and it never does stop making noise.  I usually wake up pretty grumpy after one of those.

I have had some really bazare dreams while falling asleep in a room with  some one playing video games.  The music and sounds from the game creep into the dream and cause some interesting side effects.

[wisp]

I don't use alarm clocks for the very reason you described. To remember dreams it's better to wake up naturally. It's bad enough when the phone rings. I think it's because of the phone ringing I've gotten use to getting up out of bed to record my dreams. At least the phone ringing has served a purpose that it has tuned me into a particular vibrational level. Lots of times the phone is ringing and it was just in my head. It's interesting and I haven't figured out why that happens.

I haven't tried the music while I sleep. I may give that a try.

I fell asleep in front of the tv once. There was a medical show and an xray was ordered. In my dream was this big flash of light of a lighted up skeletin against a florescent green or black background.That's was something, I could almost feel a vibration from it, it was cool. []

[SilverSlider]

The past few days I have taken naps after school and played classical music while I slept and during these naps I have remembered the most dreams and they are some of the most vivid dreams I've ever had, one I might have actually come to realize I was dreaming, which if you knew my history of lucid dreaming, is a pretty siginifcant thing. Has anyone else had music in general affect their dreams? I don't know if this is just a personal thing that only helps me, but if it isn't, that would be pretty sweet for everyone else.  

If you want to try this I suggest Chopin and Debussy; they have some great slow, piano pieces.