As some of you may already be aware, I have been practicing the so-called "art" of lucid dreaming. I've been constantly trying to improve my techniques in my approach in hope that I may appropriately and precisely grasp this "art". Half of the ease of a lucid dream can be achieved by what is done before the sleep process commences. For instance, beginners are advised to study their own hands right before going to sleep. The point of that is that the hand is the most commonly sighted extremity on one's own human body, unless they've been exceeding well above and beyond the recommended dosage of Enzyte or Viagra.
Feeling that I am no longer a beginner, I don't pay too much attention to what I see before I dream, but, instead, I try to focus more on what I hear. Hearing is a much more interpretive sense than seeing. I've realized that watching a movie or a television show before sleeping can be a very profound distraction. One may have unwanted repeats of scenes from the film within the dream. I'd hate to be in a perfect scenario in a dream, fully aware that I am dreaming and, right before I've obtained domination within my own dream world, I find myself trying to dodge bowling pins from Daniel Day-Lewis after he's told me he's been drinking my milkshake.
Once I realized that visual arts can compromise the lucid dreaming world, I began to listen to music and let it play into my dream. This can either be an aid or it can lead to the downfall of one's success in a lucid dream. For instance, I recently listened to Vampire Weekend before I went to bed. I really enjoy the album. However, I feel that the album created the tone within my dream. The light levels were effected, colors appeared to be similar to those which would appear in a film containing Vampire Weekend's music and the people within my dream all looked like the typical purchasers of Vampire Weekend albums. If I were to listen to a Lil Wayne album before I went to bed, I'd probably find myself in a wanna-be ghetto with a bunch of whiny wanna-be thugs and caught in a would-be drive-by if it weren't for all the Fisher Price guns firing wanna-be bullets at me.
I tried a few other albums of modern music of all different genres and my theory proved consistent. Modern music has a deep impact on one's lucid dreaming experience. It causes limits to exist within the dream. I, then, decided to listen to Chopin before I went to bed. I put on his E Minor Piano Concerto. My dream, that night, was much more versatile. I felt much more in control of my atmosphere and the people within my dream were much more diverse than prior dreams had been. I feel that the reason for this (and I've tried it with other classical music to help prove my theory true) is that classical music is often timeless. For example, if you watch a movie that takes place in 2000 BC, the musical score is often within the classical genre. You can also find movies about the future, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey (I know that would've been seven years ago. Let me prove my point), and hear Richard Strauss's Sprach Zarathustra.
I've now been listening to classical music every night before sleep and I feel I'm reaching a much more advanced stage. I've begun entering a dream where I had left off the last time I awoke. I'm able to fly within the dream, I feel a constant sense that everyone within my dreams admires me for something I'm not understanding. Perhaps it's modesty, an attribute I do not have in my waking life. I'm finding myself in the same place when I enter a dream, but everything is developing very rapidly and I feel that it is my own dream domain being built for me. I awake feeling much more proud of myself than I usually do, which is not very much. I feel as though I'm accomplishing something greater than could ever be accomplished in my waking life. I also awake with much more motivation to get out of bed in the morning. I want to accomplish as much as I possibly can so that I can make time "fly" as fast as it possibly can so that it will only feel like seconds until my next dream. I feel like a king there. I wish that more people could practice this, so we can reach the stage of shared dreaming, so I could show my domain to others and possibly see theirs as well.
It's not that I suffer from delusions of grandeur, but I feel that, having your dream world be a world that makes you feel like a king or queen within a utopia is one of the greatest all-encompassing sensations you can experience. Try it out and I hope to see you soon.
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