Lucid Dreaming
By Naturespace · 6 reviews ·
At first, the realism is simply spellbinding and completely convincing. But then you notice that the forest has a strange glow. And the temperature... it's as if there isn't one. Your bare feet engage the soft earth gently. Your breath turns to mist and wanders along a ribbon of silent air that spills into the woods. You are slightly transparent. Your presence here is noticed, and they know you don't belong here. The birds come to investigate you. "We have a visitor. The one who walks is asleep." The colors deepen with the realization that this is the landscape of your own mind. All that you see and hear... it is you. You are the dreamer, the witness, and the architect. And as soon as that concept takes hold, you wake up. But you will always know that you have left a part of yourself behind. You remain the architect. You will return again to witness your own mind and to exist within it. Next time you will have more control. Soft, deep tones from Native American flutes bleed like dye into a detailed tapestry of day interwoven with night. Distant owls and loons are steady and spacious as woodpeckers flit about, continuing to transform the space. Thunder rumbles vividly overhead, but there is no rain. Crickets serenade the trees as the wildlife seeks to perpetuate the never-ending moment.
What listeners say
Easily one of my favourite tracks. The ambience is that of a bayou or deep forest. There is a good amount of clear wildlife activity and the odd owl as well. In general it's a similar ambience to Loki with the frogs, crickets and thunder. Not quite a daytime track, not quite a night time track. But very evocative all the same. It's a place I get lost in. My only quibble is I wish the flute was a stronger element as it's barely audible rendering this track more of a pure nature track. It could have been quite haunting at a higher volume. Maybe we'll get something of that nature in the future?
This is a nice, unique entry to the catalogue. The Native American flutes are VERY subtle, providing mysterious harmonies which filter through the various layers of this track. There is abundant life in the night/day scape all around, some of it known and others unknown. Some aspects of the environment sound temperate, others almost tropical in the sense of a dark jungle. Either way, the vegetation is thick and the trees tall. There is a sense of a marsh or swamp nearby, without the sound of water. The thunder adds further depth and edge, is centered nearby but seems to radiate outwards in an echo around you, lending vastness to the space.
This so peaceful, I love it!
Very nice, mysterious track. Nature seems very busy, but not too distracting. Subtle tribal music with the occasional thunder rumble is just enough to drown out the buzzing noise of flying insects to keep you from swatting. LOL. Great track for meditating or involking deep thought.
Really love this new track. There is a lot going on; it's very active, but it's still relaxing and not disruptive. The tonal qualities behind the nature sounds are very subtle. There is one very high pitched, occasional bird song that some might find too startling when trying to fall asleep, but the overall track is great. I have a lot of Naturespace tracks and this is my new favorite.
Cognition shuts down as the prefrontal cortex goes offline. Neurotransmitter uptake slows down while the medulla oblongata paralyzes muscles...except the ones which control eye movement. Once the stage is set the brain stem begins firing neurons in no particular order. The limbic system senses this and tries to make sense of chaos in colors, shapes, smells -- the stuff memories are made of. The midbrain hears the beats of the brain stem and sends them to the optic muscles. REM sleep begins and the subconscious mind is allowed to go outside and play. Fragments of memories are painted in sight and sound, conjuring up a buried memory of an old girlfriend -- or walking into your graduation ceremony and told that you can't graduate because you missed a test in middle school. The depth, color, and combination of disorder in "Lucid Dreaming" is a playground for the subconscious, playing tag with the birds, running with the thunder, and munching on the tasty crickets. You may even rise to a level of consciousness, trying to get a cricket leg from between your teeth. After a short while the subconscious hears the calls of the midbrain and, dragging its feet, reenters the amygdala, and waits patiently for deep sleep to end. "Lucid Dreaming" is one of those tracks that you immerse yourself in. It may make no sense to you, but as your thoughts drift away, becoming random bits within a neurochemical warehouse, the colors and shapes and sounds of "Lucid Dreaming" tells the brainstem to let the subconscious out to play. It's sunny and rainy outside!