Thread: Sound in dreams

you could try talking out loud.

usually when i enter a lucid dream, i respond to what is happening by yelling "i'm lucid dreaming!!" and i can usually hear the echo from my own voice =)

The only component that primarily holds steady for my dreams is vision. Usually I get sound, sometimes touch, taste if I am eating something, and rarely smell.

Sometimes I have dreams where I don't actually hear sounds, but it is more like the telepathic sensing of sounds occurring. I figure, since there is no sound to hear, I am getting ahead of myself and realizing what the sound means (or maybe in dreams, I am realizing a meaning for a thing and its representation sound never gets around to being presented to me) before I 'hear' it. I've noticed this the most during communication with people and objects. Sometimes I can't get my voice to come out when I talk, but I can 'telepathically' communicate. Sort of like how when you read a sentence out loud, you can 'hear' it in your head without actually hearing it.

Maybe just spend a lucid stabilizing and then knocking around on things? Like a lucid drum set or pots and pans. Just drum away and make the sounds happen? Or you could try exercises like imagining sounds during waking life, and see if that helps? Like, 'barking dog', 'ambulance siren', 'trickling water', 'wind through leaves', 'background conversation', etc?

Thank you all for your input. I will get to work on these ideas and see if that helps me.

D.G

I hear sounds alot in my dreams. Maybe because I interfere with music alot in my daily waking state. But it sometimes makes me so annoyed that I can't recall these sounds when I wake up. Last night I had this actually. And it sounded like a beautiful chaotic symphony. Always when I start getting sound I think in my dream "aghh this sounds good, I should try to use this" but as soon as I wake up it's gone....dhat's a bummer!

but I like having them though...it makes the dream more dynamic sometimes.