Wierd buzzing noise when lucid dreaming

[Radical]

Hi, I have a question for experienced lucid dreamers.

I once thought I had a lucid dream, I became concious in my dream, but everything was nearly completely black and there was an intense buzzing noise in my ears - I freaked out and woke up within a few seconds.

Is this normal?

[SenorKaffee]

Well, that was the environment of your dream avatar at the moment. No idea why your subconciousness modelled it that way in that moment, it will always come up with some weird stuff that you can react to, but you can´t keep it from doing that.

Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm - if you can stay calm, you will find a way to tune your surroundings into something more pleasant.

[Mnemosyne]

I've never experienced anything like that but I've heard that buzzing/static/vibrations are an indication that you're moving into a different (higher?) frequency at the beginning of an OBE.

[yesyesyes]

You were in the launching stage for an astral projection.

[Wabi-sabi]

I get that sound every morning but not in a lucid dream. If I hit snooze, I get it twice.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by yesyesyes

You were in the launching stage for an astral projection.

On the limited amount of info we have here... this was my first thought, also. A pronounced buzzing sound can accompany the initial stages of astral projection.

Ever had an OBE?

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Wabi-sabi

I get that sound every morning but not in a lucid dream. If I hit snooze, I get it twice.

Haha, great =D

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Radical

Hi, I have a question for experienced lucid dreamers.

I once thought I had a lucid dream, I became concious in my dream, but everything was nearly completely black and there was an intense buzzing noise in my ears - I freaked out and woke up within a few seconds.

Is this normal?

I think that might be Tinnitus!

[Radical]

No, I had never had an OBE before, and if you look through the thread OBE's or Delusions? You will see I am very skeptical on the subject.

The buzzing was not an alarm clock or tinnitus.

I remember suddenly realising that I was dreaming, I don't know how I became conscious, but I had been trying to have lucid dreams since listening to Erin's podcast about them.

However, everything was black and there was a piercing buzzing noise in my ears. I thought I had woken up, but I hadn't since I could only see blackness accompanied by a slight blue tinge. I thought to myself I'm lucid, then I immediately woke up, sat up in bed and everything was normal.

[Lotus]

Skepicism is healthy for a subject like OBE. The only reason I believe they are possible is because I've had two--one spontaneously at age 12, one purposefully at age 23. (And I'm still trying to do it again, but I haven't been able to.)

OBEs aren't something that you can hear and believe; if you haven't experienced one, then it seems flakey. How do you describe the color red to a blind man?

Even I am not sure that they weren't some kind of seizure or explainable phenomenon. Maybe people claiming OBE all just have a misfire somewhere in their head. Personally, I don't care what causes it; all I know is that I enjoyed my OBEs on a very spiritual level.

What you are describing sounds a lot like what many people describe as leading up to an OBE. I'm totally deaf without my ear toys (cochlear implant and a hearing aid), but during the moments leading up to my second OBE, which occurred after I lost my hearing, I experienced a loud, rushing, sound that increased in pitch until I found myself violently shoved "out" of my physical body and literally up the block to the area rec center. Strangly enough...

I sound like a nut, no? It's all good.

[RandomJohn]

I did have an experience last night where, when deep in meditation, my body started buzzing (nothing to do with a lucid dream). I got scared, my heart started pounding, and after that my meditation was not so deep.

[Blueskied]

On my one and only LSD experience i heard a buzzing sound before the trip started going haywire. Was not intense though, more like a low humming.

[Digits]

Ive gotten the same thing a few times before too. Anyone else here was unable to move, and got a long period of lag before being able to move the body again after deciding to get up? I got that, and the samething with my senses, too.

[abanu]

Hi, Digits!

I have exactly the same symptoms as you do.
It seems like no matter what effort I put in to move or wake up in that moment I can't. Only after some time I am able to.

A few times I was able to reproduce this by falling asleep immediately after one of this things.

Sometimes the noise is so loud that it's kind of scary.

Abanu

[karlos768]

yes me too i have only had it once it was about 5/6 months ago ...

i knew i was dreaming and heard it buzzing really loudly in both ears and i could sort of feel it too i was trying to ride it out and hoped it would go but it just got louder to the point wher it also scared me and woke up sweating and heart pounding.

havent had it since though. i wouldnt want it neither

its made me curious that its not just me and also got me thinking about astral projection

[kgiuliani]

I have had the same thing - the very loud buzzing sound in my ears/head and then not being able to move for some time. That's happened to me several times and always scares me.

I also have a Chakra meditation CD which makes my whole body buzz - but not in a scary way.

Glad to know I'm not alone!

[boxofrain]

Hi everyone,

I found this thread on a google search for "buzzing sound while dreaming." I've been experiencing this buzzing sound since I was a kid. It happens a few times a year. 90% of the time it is when I die in my dream. As a child it would freak me out but now I'm used to it.

FYI: It was this article, that I found on reddit.com, that reminded me of the buzzing sound which led to my google search. This is my type of forum, I hope to contribute some more.

[The David]

I have had many OBE-related experiences at night. However, the problem is that it is simply impossible to tell if they are real or not, because my research on OBEs is almost certainly influencing my dreams. I have had nights where I will wake up convulsing, moving phantom limbs, paralyzed and freaking out, only to roll over, tell the person sleeping next to me about what happened, only to wake up for real the next morning and find out I had been alone all night. lol

[heidie]

Hey Radical,

I had a very similar experience this summer that I posted about here: psychic hearing in dreams?