I’ve had this MP3 for quite a while before I found LD4All.com. I have some ear clips, so it’s easy for me to put them under the pillow, with the wires going under my bed, so that the CD player buzzing doesn’t keep my up. The sound carries through the pillow well, and is gently muffled and soft.
To make sure I don’t wear out the batteries in the CD player, and to make sure I don’t have that voice interrupting my dream, I only set the song to play once.
Unfortunately, I find it difficult to sleep with this on because I find myself listening to the nice sounds of the recording, and keeping track of when they change (especially when that weird percussion bit comes in). I figured there’s no way I’m going to get to sleep with this thing. Sometimes I’d ride it out to the end and start the CD again, starting it all over.
So I tried inserting 5 minutes of silence before the actual recording, figuring I’d be relaxed enough by the time it comes on. No dice. I’d either be waiting too anxiously for it to start (which kind of defeats the point of this), or it would pop in just when I’m about to sleep, making the whole effort pointless.
Then I tried inserting 15 minutes of silence. This one time, I fell asleep before it started, but I don’t remember having any dream. When I woke up at 8AM the next day, I dimly heard the induction. Apparantly, I left replay on by accident. Still no luck.
I’m willing to try again, maybe this time with a 20-minute delay. I find it much easier to get to sleep now than when I was first trying this in high school (since now I go to art college, which I find less stressful, and I haven’t been keeping up with my sleep), so I figure now I can sleep within 20 minutes, and the song will chime in right when I’m ready. I just need to kill some time before he eventually quiets down and I can have some uninterrupted fun.
But is it possible to play the song too late? Like, if I’m in too deep a sleep, I won’t hear it?
