(NSFW tag for mention of suicidal ideation)
So recently I have been listening to the musical “Next to Normal” on loop as I fall asleep. It continues to play during the entire night. Thus, my dreams have been affected.
For those who don’t know, next to normal is a musical that deals a lot with mental health issues and grief. So I’ve had a lot of dreams related to those, as well as dreams that I am auditioning for the musical, watching it, or just listening to it.
It’s gotten to the point where I find it a lot harder to fall asleep if I’m not listening to it. I’m sure that my Spotify wrapped is fucked at this point lol.
I think that my mental health is also being affected by it, because I’ve started having more dreams with dark undertones and themes of suicide. But at the same time, the dreams aren’t too bad, and I love the music, so I’m probably going to continue lol
tldr: I’ve been listening to the same musical on repeat at night, and now it’s hard to sleep without it and my mental health is being affected
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Last week, I watched a couple of horror movies on consecutive nights and ended up having a terrifying dream that combined the two movies.
My dreams are usually reflective of whatever shows I’m currently watching or video games I’m playing. Which is why I stopped watching the walking dead and stopped playing dead island- too many zombie dreams.
Uh that’s your cue to find a different soundtrack to listen to. Most people do water sounds or bird noises?
According to my cousin, he fell asleep while listening to New Found Glory’s Sticks and Stones album and woke up to the beginning of the secret track where they whisper “Someone’s in your house” repeatedly.
I’ve been listening to music as I sleep for probably 17 years. It started with swaths of random songs on a few burned CDs and progressed to rock and country, to metal rock and country, to rock and metal, to metal, to metal and piano music, to power metal, and now to a little bit of all of it depending on how I’m feeling, but mostly metal.
I like listening to music when I sleep (although I have heard from a few studies I remember reading years ago that it negatively impacts sleep), but it can also sleep without it. I can’t say if it’s ever had much of an impact on my dreams, but I don’t feel like it has— not nearly like what you describe yourself going through. And sorry about that; sleep is important.:!
You can likely find something else to listen to that has similar vibes and see if that makes any difference. Now I’m extremely uneducated on the inner workings of mental health, but I’d venture a guess that it’s not the music. Find something else to direct your attention toward during the day/week that is non-destructive and play the same music when you sleep— that might change some things.
yup it’s seeping into your subconsciousness, I’d recommend meditation music, personally i use the gateway tapes with the binaural sounds
I have no idea if this will work, but it’s worth a try. Turn on your music, like you always do, loud if you do, then each night turn it down one notch, that way maybe it will trick your brain and within a week or so, you can be sleeping in silence once again. Maybe!
As someone who chronically listened to Lofi for about 3 years straight to sleep.
You can turn the playlist you’re using off for the Spotify wrapped “exclude from your taste profile”
That’ll stop the hyperinflation in numbers.
Listen to something else. Habits can be changed.
Interesting I’ve been having dreams that always end in suicide I wonder if music will help
it reminds me that one time I fell asleep mid rewatching Hamilton and then I dreamt the fucking founding fathers and all that as the obc cast and it was weird because they were preforming?😭 I got a selfie with Lin lmfao if not irl then in my dreams.
If you’re into musicals try to switch to something lighter? I haven’t watched next to normal yet so i don’t know what to recommend that’s similar but you can try something a little more lighthearted maybe, like Heathers is a dark comedy (talks about suicide and such too tho) or phantom of the Opera for something more classical and relaxed