I played this file using an applescript which slowly increases and then decrease the volume sinusoidally, with an additional 5 minutes of silence between each crescendo. Additionally, it rewinds the track a bit in between, so you don’t miss the parts that are playing during the bottom half of the sine wave (when the volume is less than 50%).
Around 4 am I was having a very interesting dream, and then I started hearing the track playing. Since I had been preparing for bed a few minutes earlier, I assumed that I had turned it on, but forgotten about it. I was wondering if a DC could hear it (wish I’d asked them!), and tried to turn it down using a remote, because it was getting louder. Exciting but also annoying, because I recognized what it was, but it didn’t occur to me that I might actually be dreaming! Maybe I should try listening to the track before bedtime, and during every cycle (every 6 minutes) do a few RCs, so that I associate hearing the track slowly getting louder and doing RCs.
Oh, side note, the dream remote that I tried to turn the music down with – about 10 seconds before that, I was using the remote to turn down some lights, but they behaved somewhat strangely – they slowly got dimmer (which is what I was expecting), but they also triggered a lower set of lights. Of course, I just thought I didn’t know how to work the remote… Then the track caught my attention, I tried to turn it down, and then almost immediately woke up, and grabbed the real remote next to my pillow and turned down the stereo a bit.
Couldn’t go back to sleep, luckily I had to get up at 4:45 am anyway, and I was able to imprint the end of the dream quite well – sure wish I could’ve gone back to sleep and into the same dream, because it was really really interesting…
Here’s the code for the applescript: Possible Holy grail Technique part II (links to a specific post, not the beginning of the thread)