Something that helped me LD

Kind of lengthy, just started typing of how I used sound to induce a LD last night.
I used a combination of using sight, sound and feel. As I got comfortable I thought of how what if we feel things by hearing them. Think of moving your finger ever so slightly on a surface, then imagining that it is creating a very clear sound, as if your mind only really heard this. I thought of that sound as I moved my finger and did not even pay attention to the feeling. I was doing this because; 1 i was high and I honestly thought when you feel something you really are just hearing something at a different pitch or something crazy, 2 it seemed like an easy way to push your self away from your body and think more internal. This helped me relax a lot and made me focus on more things such as sound and sight now that I was somewhat distant from my body. I always have noticed when my eyes are closed I see flashing shapes and very small flashing things that look like pixels. I remember reading about how you can create objects with your mind then just start rotating it. So I try that with one of the shapes I see, first it is 2d but I make it into a pretty cool 3d object that starts to rotate very fast. I take notice to not only the object but the sound it makes when it spins. I let imagery form around it and just view everything passively, and thats when for some reason I thought of music. I start thinking of this really nice uppity music, and I start to create my own lyrics. I am watching the object and start having the music say things like; you are about to be dreaming, you need to stay awake for this, you are starting to dream, Dan I hope your realizing your becoming lucid. I said a lot of things that just happened to go with this music as I watched the scenery grow. Pretty much with these mantras were really more for confidence that I knew I was going to Lucid. I start to see very vibrant colors of orange start forming around all my vision with this object in the center, everything is flourishing with vibrant colors in which they all sway together and move to my music I created. This is when I feel the transformation, I take it in passively as I notice my body vibrating for awhile and it eventually stops. I know that if I were to do a RC I would have become very Lucid, but instead I did not want to steer away from the visual in front of me. I keep watching passively for awhile, but I end up not remembering the dream the whole night, my recall has been slacking lately.

But pretty much this is what I did.
1.) Tricked my mind into only focusing on the sound my body makes even staying still. For me convincing my self this was not to hard and really did help me get away from my body
2.) I created a rotating image and after that I was very passive.
3.) After I was not just looking at the object but rather a mixture of things I created sound. Instead of having the sound be created by the things I saw, I made the sound control what was in front of me.
4.) Continue until I felt the signs of a transition between body and mind (vibrations for me)

From their I should have done a RC or just remained on the course of having some sort of setting, because what I was viewing was more just fancy scenery that is no where realistic.

Moral of the story I focus'd on sound to distract my self from my body and then used sound to create and control my visions which in turn made me lucid.

Is there such a thing as sound induced ld?

It's just a WILD, with the trick of imagining sounds, the same way that you can visualize things.

I might try this tonight, it looks like a good way to keep yourself focused.

Shift: thank you for your post. It gave me a little more confidence in a method that I have been expermenting with for several weeks now. What I have been doing is trying to use what things feel and smell like in my visualations just before sleep and when I WBTB. In the visualation I am using the apartment I grew up in and lived there over ten years. I start out leaving the apartment which was on the third floor. I feel the door knob and the curtains my mother had over the glass pannel in the door. I smell the curtains which have a cotten like odor. The hallway also had a smell which was not so nice as the land lady had a ton of cats in the basement. As I proceed through the visulation I touch as many things as I can sometimes smell them too. This can but somewhat time consuming, but I think it has some potential to induce a lucid dream.

If you notice any senses they will become easier to imitate in your mind, so going through out your day and making imprints such as remembering how a certain desk felt, it will help when you try to repeat that feeling when trying to VILD. Pretty sure thats true.

Also to more of what you are attempting try reading
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=75313

Glad to help :)

You might really be interested in this thread

You mention doing an RC at the end. Were you physical in the dream at that point in time? Also, did this work for you only when high or can you do this naturally (and much more easily now that you've already once)?

Anyhow, it sounds like you were doing well to stabilize the visualizations into a dream. If you had done an RC (or, otherwise transitioned to lucidity) you probably would have found yourself in a lucid. (You were at the 2nd of the 3 general V-WILD stages)

Anyway, this would fall under the umbrella classification of V-WILD (often referred to as VILD, too, but they mean different things, VILD being a tech that relies on enforced familiarity, V-WILD relying on creation)

Thanks shift and arby

I think it could have been a dream but instead it was more just like watching a really messed up but interesting visual in windows media player when listening to music. So me being physically in the dream I guess it's no but only because thats what I made it look like.

As far as being high it helped get to the point in where my visuals and hearing were very crisp. However when I am now sober I find it harder to reach the same experience. I have not yet gone to sleep as high (btw I went straight into sleep when attempting this I did not WBTB) so I'm not 100 percent sure if that was reason but honestly its the only thing that makes sense to me.

Next time I get this far I plan to either start focusing on feeling the object or maybe even using it or just doing a RC after awhile of the scenery. And I would consider what I did more of a V-WILD.

Either way I need to start dream journaling more my dream recall is still pretty bad. I remember when I first started I was so excited and writing everything down was easy, I'm just going to give my self the same excitement. Also been working on prospective memory :)