Listening to Aphex while sleeping

I discovered a year or two ago that when I listen to music while I sleep, it affects my dreams in some way, so now, I listen to music when I sleep a lot. I also realized that listening to RDJ's music while you sleep is almost guaranteed to give you vivid or fucked up dreams. I've had a lot of luck with White Blur 1 and Grey Stripe. Grey stripe once gave me a dream about some kind of abandoned concrete water refining facility or something. There was a lot of realistic light bouncing off of the walls, and some of the noises sounded to my brain like giant crayfish lurking beneath the water.

Anyway, enough of my boring stories. Do you guys like to listen to Aphex while you sleep? If you're into posting your dreams, go right ahead.

I honestly don't believe you would be able to recognize a specific song while your asleep. Haven't happend to me before, and I've fallen to sleep listening to music many times before.

Why exactly is that so difficult to believe?

i used to put a playlist on for sleeping, and on many occasions in the morning i'd cycle back through the songs that had been played and remember parts of my dreams quite vividly while relistening. i've even had dreams where i can hear the music i have playing outside of my dream perfectly clearly in my dream. i remember one time specifically i had pink floyd on and in my dream i was playing it on guitar.

I've used a playlist with most of the tracks from saw2, some biosphere as well as other random super ambient tracks from other artists(things like vletrmx, or burzum ambient tracks) as a sleeping playlist for the last 4ish years. I don't remember them affecting my dreams specifically but I don't remember my dreams much anyways. It is weird coming out of a deep sleep to that kind of music though. It almost tricks me into believing I'm not really waking up.

I rarely remember my dreams and i also rarely have music on while I'm falling asleep because I end up focusing on the music and not going to sleep lol

I love it when I'm about to fall asleep and start to imagine weird things while still being awake. I once did that while listening to gwarek2 and it was plain heart-attack-provoking.

there will be definitely many richard d james coming out of watmm soon

There's plenty of shit that will give you weird dreams.

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  On 8/25/2011 at 10:55 PM, drukqs said:

Do you guys like to listen to Aphex while you sleep?

No

I find it impossible to sleep in anything but absolute silence.

i totally share you're sleeping-music experience drukqs. i had a very vivid experience to Gwely Mernans (unless i have it mistaken for another song). I saw pulsating mountains that kind of looked like they were moving away from my point of view and there was this very small object with a long trail hovering over the mountains moving up and down. Ever since I saw that, that's all I see when I hear that song. Nowa dayz I like to fall asleep to the Mike & Rich album although I can't recall what happens. I think that's why I've been listening to that album while sleeping for a year now. Since I don't have any recollection of what happens, my dreams are always fresh. I get the same dream phenomena when I listen to autechre while sleeping. autechre's usually more intense. Rpeg made me see these vibrating, shape-shifting flower forms with pedals that were shaped kinda like outlines of christmas lights. they would change color from orange to like red and dark blue depending on how high the frequency of the melody was. personally i think it's the sensory deprivation of falling asleep that account for such experiences.

  On 8/26/2011 at 5:42 PM, Bubz said:

personally i think it's the sensory deprivation of falling asleep that account for such experiences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia#Sensory_phenomena

  On 8/26/2011 at 9:47 PM, Rabid said:

  On 8/26/2011 at 5:42 PM, Bubz said:

personally i think it's the sensory deprivation of falling asleep that account for such experiences.

http://en.wikipedia....nsory_phenomena

thanks for that link!

i have posted many rambles on watmm about what this article called "the tetris effect." i called them "afterimages of the third eye," which i think is more descriptive... wish it got more technical.

the tetris effect + music gear == your brain adapting to constant music making, dreaming of knobs, and giving you deeper results!

This thread title excited me greatly as I have a wonderful, vivid, and directly 'dreams affected by the music of Aphex Twin' related dream experience to share with you nice people. This dream came to me when I had fallen asleep listening to Selected Ambient Works Volume Two on headphones. My only issue is not knowing the name of the track specifically, but it is the piece which very much resembles strong winds blowing . In my dream, I had walked into my parents bedroom, not their bedroom at their current house at the time but their bedroom from my second child hood home , or maybe it was the third but actually it was the first childhood home I actually remember, as we moved in their about the time I started kindergarden (interestingly enough, this was a common theme in nightmares I had as a child, walking into my parents room to find them horrifically distorted, possessed, or simply replaced by evil entities of some kind) and began to talk to my parents. They both bolted up and their mouths were giant holes and they began forcefully expelling wind from these holes. I woke up at this point and found the sound their mouth winds had made was actually the SAW2 track I was hearing at the time. It was pretty cool.

The End

Wow, I just realized how excruciating it is to listen to other people's dreams. Sorry you had to read mine. Mods close this horrible thread.

Oh, another really intriguing/fascinating thing that happened to me in my mind when I was asleep was last night I took some melatonin and valerian root and some generic nyquil and some kava kava tea before sleep and had I dream I was hanging on to some kind of balloon/space rocket combination and was flying into the air. The actual physical sensation was awesome. Also my drug dealer from my home town was there and I asked him for a cigarette and he gave me this weird blunt/cigar type of thing which I had to close by biting on it. Then I woke up before I got to enjoy the smooth, relaxing effect of smoking tobacco

  On 8/26/2011 at 12:48 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

I love it when I'm about to fall asleep and start to imagine weird things while still being awake. I once did that while listening to gwarek2 and it was plain heart-attack-provoking.

I love that too. Not sure what it is but I like to believe it's DMT.. As for the original topic, I tried once and nothing good happened, just had a horrible headache when I woke up. Just a note.

At one point in my life I put on SAW 1 on repeat and for most of the summer 2008 I went to sleep and awoke with that, this is amazing to wake up to.

  On 8/26/2011 at 9:47 PM, Rabid said:

http://en.wikipedia....nsory_phenomena

thanks for sharing this. ive been inducing this state for a long time now and never knew what to call it. definitely can be used as a gateway for lucid dreaming and synesthesia

  On 8/28/2011 at 1:34 AM, drukqs said:

Wow, I just realized how excruciating it is to listen to other people's dreams.

yehhh usually the only people who like to hear about dreams are psychoanalists and psychonauts.

dreams that aren't super profound or ridiculous are only interesting if you know the dreamer on a personal level too.

i recently discovered my dvd player in my bedroom plays cds

so i turn off the picture and sleep to teh aphex saws or steve roache all night

Whenever I go to sleep listening to music, I usually get woken up by, say, the bell-like instrument in Boxing Day suddenly re-emerging 5:58 into the track, or [shiny Metal Rods] starting. A much more useful technique, to me at least, is to picture myself composing just before going to sleep, usually in an ideal studio, which is generally much more inspirational than sitting at my real desk. The only drawback is having to nip into the next room without awakening my partner in order to hum a melody and some notes about instrumentation into a sound recorder, so even that's arguably best done during the day.

Still, it's nice music to drift off to, until a sudden, loud part.

My dreams are very vivid and can be brilliantly mind-blowing or on some occassions very disturbing. To the point sometimes the thought of entering the dream state can unnerve me, and put me on edge. I take the plunge into the deep end every night when I close my eyes. And when I wake up and can remember reams upon ream of that nights journeys. The following day somebody or something will move or say something, a peice of a conversation, or a trick of the light and this will instantly trigger even more deep set images that I had that night. I used to be able to create synthesia almost at will, (when I wake up from my primary deep sleep I have to lay on my back, but I have to be in the right frame of mind and be patient. I must be free of burdens and have nothing else to occupy my mind) Which as I get older I admit is harder to do.

I always go to sleep in dead silence. And god knows what will happen if I listen to Aphex while sleeping lol. I have thought about it but to be honest it freaks me out what kind of stuff I am going to start conjuring in my head. Silence is enough.