Thread: Music as a means of stabilizing and travelling in the dream

I have found some benefits of music in the dreams.
One of the things i found is that singing makes you stabilize the dream. Whenever i see that the dream is fading, sometimes i rub my hands, or touch stuff to stabilize and sometimes i just sing. This singing does the trick very well. The dream comes back and while you are singing, you are entirely inside the dream and you will continue your lucid experience.

Another thing i found is that the lyrics and the right song can make you go places. If you want to fly, try to sing a song about flying. If you want to go to space, try to sing a song about space. For me it works.
For example, sing "Man on the moon" by REM and you will go to the moon. Or "Alexander the great" by Iron Maiden and you will go to that time and place.
This is kinda new to me as i'm discovering it, but sometimes it works great. I believe that the right song, the right lyrics and great intention will have you dream great experiences.

I was thinking about doing this too once! However I've noticed for some reason that if I don't really think about the things I want to attain in a dream, they happen in my dream. I guess it just needs to be in my subconscious or something?

The things you are talking about I also have thought about them recently which is so weird. Thank goodness for this post because I was going to post my own about a similar topic.

Sadly, I don't have any headphones to plug into my MP3 player. But I could just listen to music on my computer which yeah, that is not going to work out anytime soon.

Oooh, I love this! I'll have to try singing the next time I have a lucid dream. Thanks, DreamHighlander!

I'm surprised this suggestion didn't get more responses, DreamHighlander, because singing in LD's hits a lot of important notes.

The most important, I think, isn't about stabilization at all, but, rather, accessing memory. Recalling the music and lyrics to a song is an almost unconscious event (you just know the words to "Man on the Moon," you don't have to remember them), and that event is one of bringing a solid chunk of memory into your dream all at once, and ever so subtly ( you don't even know you're doing it). With memory accessed, you can more easily summon your dream goals, your control improves, and, yes, lucidity is stabilized:

As you noted, the act of doing something you do not have to think about, but recognize and internalize completely, would be most helpful in stabilization and increasing lucidity. It's almost like there's an internal focusing going on with music, one that sets you more in tune with your unconscious. You really can trigger schema (i.e., that trip to the moon) more easily if you've got a powerful tool working for you that does not require much thought -- and music is just that.

Now that I think about it, singing is a good summoner of self-awareness as well, especially when the song means something to you personally.

Plus, hearing your own voice singing in the dream also tends to be a good RC, because you almost never sound the same as you domin waking-life.

Finally, one small warning: it might not be the best idea to stabilize by singing if you are LD'ing very late in the sleep cycle. Why? Because at that point you are drifting very close to a waking state, and -- because singing is an almost autonomic event -- you run the risk of belting out your song in waking life as well as the dream!