Dreaming while the tv/radio is on?

[Journee]

If I go to sleep and the television or radio is on, I will sometimes dream about what is playing. For example: In one dream, I was at church while the pastor was preaching a particular passage from the bible. When I woke up, there was a tv evangelist show airing that was speaking on the same verses in my dream. Is this normal? What do you call it?

[RandomNumber677]

If you were religious then you might believe it was a small miracle or something making you pay extra attention to that passage and how it relates to your life. However, you can hear things while im REM and see flashes of light to an extent etc. That is where the EILD (Electronically induced lucid dream) came from and the nova mask. For example, you put the nova mask on and go to sleep and it is set to detect when you are in REM and thus dreaming and gives a minute for the dream to stabilise, then lights flash and you can see lights inside your dream, with training, your brain will recognise this is a signal that you are dreaming and you will become lucid. Your mind tries to incorporate it into your dream though so the lights might flash and in the dream you see a police car with its sirens on zoom past. The EILD tutorial is here

[Abra]

It's normal. I call it "A dream which was affected by waking life surroundings." Fun times.

[Hukif]

Hm, so you can sleep while something is still on, lucky you, I has only seen this like 5 times for me, wish I had something saved that talked about LD so I could make use of it and remember tasks or become lucid.

[AjWasHere]

This has happened to me before, usually when I fall asleep with a movie on. Sometimes, if I have a song stuck in my head, I'll hear it in my dream, also. Anyway, the first thing I thought of when I read this comic was this old Calvin and Hobbes strip.

[Allinmyhead]

The first time I noticed this happening to me was when I took a nap while listening to The Notorious BIG on my computer. I dreamt I was at a party with biggies music playing in the background. It's funny because in the dream I knew I was dreaming and mentioned to a DC that the music was probably playing because I had fallen asleep to it. I did not go lucid and was pretty angry with myself when I woke up. I have since used music to induce lucidity. I used to fall asleep to Andy mckee's music and could recognize in the dream that I am hearing it because I fell asleep listening to it. The drawback however is that I could not get the music to stop playing after I became lucid and it really reminded me that I was laying in bed with music playing and made dream control difficult.

[Noogah]

It's happened to me on many an occasion before. Mostly when i wasn't even trying. When I was younger, I used to sleep with my radio tuned to Christian music. It helped me sleep. Later on, earlier in the morning, a preacher would come on the radio station, and I would dream that I was listening to his sermon in a Church, or that it was someone talking to me.