Thread: Outside Influences?

External sounds most definitely affect my dreams, but usually they wake me up.

I usually hear my alarmclock but never realize that I'm supposed to wake up, usually think it's an annoying phone.

Originally posted by deeptrance
Do things outside your real body affect your dreams? I just recently had an experience where I was flying toward the sun and all of a sudden the dream shifts to where I am on a stage performing a song with some nameless unknown band. It was a really great song and I couldn't help noticing how familiar it sounded. We finished the song and I walked through *a door and right into some news studio, whereupon I was interviewed extensively. I don't remember the exact nature of the interview, only that it was shortly over. Then the band came in from the next room and said that we need to get back to our concert, and so I walked back onto the stage and we played several songs before I woke up. I mention this only because shortly upon wakening I realized that the radio was on. So I think either the radio was influencing my dream, or my dream was very normal and the fact that the radio was on was just a coincidence. What do you think?

Yes, the physical perceptions can be incorporated into dreams.

I used to make dream induction tapes, and often they would be incorporated into the substance of the dream -- I would hear myself conducting a lecture embodying the contents of the suggestion tape.

One time I did a tape of the recitation of a Mantra. It came up in a Lucid Dream. I followed the Chant until I found that small sparrows in a cage were doing the Mantra... with my voice.

There is a product on the market with little blinking lights that are supposed to indicate to one that one is dreaming. Well, for many people the little blinking lights are just incorporated into dream content, as plausible aspects of reality -- the blinking light at a crosswalk, or a blinking neon advertising sign.

I'll second that. although outside influences do affect your dreams, the way they do affect them can be odd...or random within your dreams ..you could try to experiment with sounds. Im a heavy sleeper enough that usually sounds dont get through, but you might be different