I actually signed up a good couple of years ago, yet losing my quest to have a proper lucid dream, I lost all motivation… However, I’m back.
I had a little search, but found nothing of use, so I thought I would enquire…
When I’m sleeping, and I hear my alarm going off, I sometimes hear the alarm in my dream before it fully wakes me up - I’m sure others have experienced this. Now, as my N95 can support multiple alarms, in .mp3 (and others) format, I wondered if there would be a method to set one alarm to play as I sleep (say about 5-6am or so, which helps to induce a lucid dream? Is there sounds freely available to do this? Does it work? Something which basically tells me, “hey, you’re dreaming!”
What you’re describing is indeed an effective method to induce lucidity. If you want to stick to your alarm clock and you can put in .mp3s in there of your choosing (that’s actually really cool btw), then I suggest recording your own voice saying “You are dreaming” and then putting it on your alarm clock in .mp3 format. The voice you’re most familiar with subconsciously is your own voice, so it’s effectiveness would increase greatly. If that doesn’t suit you, there’s a program called Daldom that a guy named dodobird created and posted up at my site. It’s actually a really cool piece of software and does exactly what you’re looking for. Here’s the link to his thread, which has the link to his software (it’s free).
Thank you - I downloaded Daldom, and see it has the .mp3’s included, so I could try out some and see works best for me. If I have no luck, then I will record myself!
Would a ‘you are dreaming’ be of use on its own, or should it have other sounds too to be more beneficial?
I’m pretty eager to try out this technique, and hopefully it’ll yield better results than I had previously!
Well. From what I’ve heard from other people’s experiences with sound triggered LDs, they also need the correct volume setting. If its too loud, it might wake you up. If it’s too low, you might not get the message.
And “You are dreaming” could work fine, but you could also include something like: “Do a reality check and notice that you are dreaming!” or something similiar. You have probarly plenty of time to configure it! Some different message might work better for some people, and another message might work better for the rest.
Hehe thanks, well after posting previously I went straight away to record, and came up with “Mark… Mark… You’re dreaming.” repeated a couple of times! I thought this may work as also when you are awoken by someone calling your name, then you find someone in your dream is calling you too! Just an experiment really!
Now my trouble is how to use this in a workable format… I thought my N95 would have more options to configure the alarm but it appears this is not the case… It starts off quieter and gets gradually louder (which is good) but then as it repeats more, it gets far too loud! Also, all alarms have to have the same alert sound, so it may not be too good if it did work and I ended up dreaming my way through the day when I should’ve been at work!
I can’t really find a solution at the moment on the Symbian front, but I’ll have to have a search more.
I use a Mac, so if anyone can recommend some good (and free) software which could work that way, then that’d be great!
Well I bet n95 plays music files… So you could use this one hour mp3 I made (6mb!). It’s just silence, so you can use that as a “timer”, by making a playlist that plays this file 5 times, then your own recording.
Good luck rapidshare.com/files/88119422/1h … ilence.mp3
