The Lucid Dreaming Experiments Part 2 has one
year of the seven left to go that I planned on running it before
publishing the results. A couple of interesting things have been noted.
One is without a doubt using audio alone you can teach yourself things when you are asleep.....
I found out if I let the physics lectures and foreign language lessons run all night in the player while I slept I retained more of the information than if they started or stopped anywhere during the entire time I am asleep. I lineup enough audio usually for 10 hours so that it gives me time for going to sleep, perhaps awakening a few times and if I go back to sleep before I awaken for the day (very common for me because either I have very intense REM or very restful deep sleep, both desirable and theoretically represent far ends of opposing phases). I use three discs of the same audio information sessions played back in different orders (using a five disc changer to do them randomly and add more info is the plan for the last year).
I retain the lessons better if I get irregular sleep patterns and times going to sleep or arising, which is also common for me, no set schedule. During the years I've been doing this when I keep regular hours within a few days I remember very little of the lessons when I use a schedule than when I do not; the retaining variable increases immediately upon breaking regular patterns.
Most of what I've noticed so far is the familiarity of the terms or words & phrases mentioned more than the full set of information related through the lessons, though gradually attainment of more specific, re-callable information seems to be increasing also. I am setting up experiments using scents to correspond with the recordings played while asleep to see how recall is affected by using the scents when awake. It is said smell and sound activate memory ahead of visual cues, and increases the vividness of visual correspondence when used in conjunction together. Like when you burn incense or candles and play a set of music will make memories come alive if in the past you did both of the same together.
One very peculiar thing, and kinda exciting actually, is I always program a music set into the sleep experiments. I started doing this after a few years, just to see what would happen, and found a break from the lessons using music helped me "visualize" the lessons and remember them later on. This I found as a side effect, replaying the music on it's own later doesn't seem to help me recall the lesson per se, which was opposite of what I expected. I've used the same lessons and set of music for about a month now, and will change everything again next week......for the first few weeks I'd have lucid awareness during the music segments, then slowly more structured dreams.
Finally, the past three times when asleep, during the music session (at least in my dream the same music is playing, meaning my ears are probably hearing it as it plays), I would have a dream where I was the age and in the same surroundings as when I first bought the record I used as the music during the music session. The friends from that time are there too, it is a very realistic, physical feeling type of lucid dream; and we all realize we are in this dream, and, those friends who are dead are also there and communicate they know it's not today, they are "different", and this is not a dream but a "reality" we can enjoy together.
Seems the music, the entire set (album) in continuity, is the key. I don't have the same surroundings or exact characters in dreams on nights I don't use the recordings, sometimes I don't play the recordings for days; it was the immediate recall of the settings when I did which I thought was cool. And that it happened three times in a row (over course of past week using the same recordings I've used for over three weeks), same lucidity and settings, really made me smile.
Very interesting. More experiments to come.
oh, this is the album that's been playing in full during the music session. I was 14 when I bought this album, included in the dream is the place I was then (my old neighborhood and "world" then) and my friends as we all looked then, I can even recall how the surroundings felt and smelled back then. It's, wild man, and that's putting it lightly.
\m/ ROCK ON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8PSdUu7dc
I found out if I let the physics lectures and foreign language lessons run all night in the player while I slept I retained more of the information than if they started or stopped anywhere during the entire time I am asleep. I lineup enough audio usually for 10 hours so that it gives me time for going to sleep, perhaps awakening a few times and if I go back to sleep before I awaken for the day (very common for me because either I have very intense REM or very restful deep sleep, both desirable and theoretically represent far ends of opposing phases). I use three discs of the same audio information sessions played back in different orders (using a five disc changer to do them randomly and add more info is the plan for the last year).
I retain the lessons better if I get irregular sleep patterns and times going to sleep or arising, which is also common for me, no set schedule. During the years I've been doing this when I keep regular hours within a few days I remember very little of the lessons when I use a schedule than when I do not; the retaining variable increases immediately upon breaking regular patterns.
Most of what I've noticed so far is the familiarity of the terms or words & phrases mentioned more than the full set of information related through the lessons, though gradually attainment of more specific, re-callable information seems to be increasing also. I am setting up experiments using scents to correspond with the recordings played while asleep to see how recall is affected by using the scents when awake. It is said smell and sound activate memory ahead of visual cues, and increases the vividness of visual correspondence when used in conjunction together. Like when you burn incense or candles and play a set of music will make memories come alive if in the past you did both of the same together.
One very peculiar thing, and kinda exciting actually, is I always program a music set into the sleep experiments. I started doing this after a few years, just to see what would happen, and found a break from the lessons using music helped me "visualize" the lessons and remember them later on. This I found as a side effect, replaying the music on it's own later doesn't seem to help me recall the lesson per se, which was opposite of what I expected. I've used the same lessons and set of music for about a month now, and will change everything again next week......for the first few weeks I'd have lucid awareness during the music segments, then slowly more structured dreams.
Finally, the past three times when asleep, during the music session (at least in my dream the same music is playing, meaning my ears are probably hearing it as it plays), I would have a dream where I was the age and in the same surroundings as when I first bought the record I used as the music during the music session. The friends from that time are there too, it is a very realistic, physical feeling type of lucid dream; and we all realize we are in this dream, and, those friends who are dead are also there and communicate they know it's not today, they are "different", and this is not a dream but a "reality" we can enjoy together.
Seems the music, the entire set (album) in continuity, is the key. I don't have the same surroundings or exact characters in dreams on nights I don't use the recordings, sometimes I don't play the recordings for days; it was the immediate recall of the settings when I did which I thought was cool. And that it happened three times in a row (over course of past week using the same recordings I've used for over three weeks), same lucidity and settings, really made me smile.
Very interesting. More experiments to come.
oh, this is the album that's been playing in full during the music session. I was 14 when I bought this album, included in the dream is the place I was then (my old neighborhood and "world" then) and my friends as we all looked then, I can even recall how the surroundings felt and smelled back then. It's, wild man, and that's putting it lightly.
\m/ ROCK ON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8PSdUu7dc