The Music of Dreaming

From my past experiences, I’ve found that music is key in having dreams that you will actually remember.  I used to always plug in my iPhone before bed every night and listen to the most relaxing playlist that I owned and drift off into hysteria of pleasant dreams. It was amazing how much more vivid the dreams became with the music playing, because although you are asleep, you can still hear everything around you. The dreams would have a tendency to shift with each song change, which to some is unpleasant, but to me was refreshing.

            Another thing I noticed about falling asleep to music was that I would subconsciously memorize the lyrics while I was asleep. Sadly, after about a year of doing this nightly, my dreams began to subside and then diminish completely again. I don’t know why this happened, but my best guess is that dreams have a tolerance and I had a high tolerance. Once I stopped my dreams began to slowly resolve back to normal every other day or so. Although, I can honestly say that musical dreams were indeed the most vivid and tantalizing of any of my dreams I’ve ever had and it was seemingly impossible to have a nightmare because I was too at peace with my surroundings. I’m no scientist, nor have I done any legitimate research on the effects of music and dreaming, but I believe what I witnessed, although I never can fall asleep with music playing anymore, I’ve taken too much of a liking to the peace within the quiet.