Customer Reviews

Liquid Mind VIII: Sleep

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I happened to hear this on XM Radio in the car. Oh my goodness. This is not the thing to be listening to while driving. I happened to have on the Vision (New Age music) channel and this came on in broad noon daylight as I was running some errands. Within minutes, I was as calm as a lake on a windless day and heading for nod-off time. Change the channel..but quick, make a note of the album.

I tried it (safely) at home. It has a warning; do not operate machinery or drive while listening to this cd. It does really work. I put it in the cd player in my alarm clock and put it on low before I went to bed. I think I fell asleep in 4 minutes.

The trick is the slow tempo. The music is almost complete phrases, no discernable tune but also not simply noises that sound spacey.

If you want something effective to calm yourself during yoga, to sleep to or to calm a fussy baby or put down the toddlers, this is it. Zzzzzz

Some new age music albums get it; some don't. I do not buy new age music to hear third rate melodies (that quickly become annoying), annoying beats and clicks, drumming, chanting, etc. I buy it to help me relax and chill out. Sometimes I use it to filter out noise from outside my home or in my office. Sometimes I use it to help me sleep. Good sleep music should lull - it shouldn't demand attention. It should draw you in enough so that you will stop fretting about your problems at work or at home but not so much that your mind is anticipating a predictable melodic pattern. Liquid Mind has figured out how to do what new age music should do. This album has gently changing tones that ease in and out, cascade, and encircle the listener. Think of it as pleasant white noise. This is definitely sleep inducing. If you feel like youa re sleep deprived but are too wired to nap, put this on your headphones and just listen. You won't be able to focus on any sound in particular - there is enough shifting to keep you from doing that. But you will find yourself being lulled into dreamland. Very good.

I have no trouble staying asleep, but for years I've struggled to fall asleep. I've used several relaxing CDs, some commercial and some I've put together myself. Most of them helped, but eventually they had less effect, so I changed to another one for a few months. I started using Liquid Mind VIII recently, and it has easily been the most effective sleep CD I've used. Most nights I'm asleep by the fourth or fifth track (15-20 minutes, which is very good for me).

Other than the obvious fact that the music is fairly nondescript and very soothing, I don't know why it works so well, but it does.

Highly recommended if you have problems falling asleep.

I took my 3 nephews, ages 11, 15 & 16 on a trip recently and decided to play Liquid Mind VIII. They all passed out after 10 minutes and it put me in a hypnotic-like trance. Without my complete awareness, I followed a car off the exit that I wasn't supposed to get off. Only after seeing the brake lights from the car in front of me that I snapped out of it, and everyone else in the car woke up. We decided to listen to heavy metal and rap for the rest of the way :-). Normally though, I listen to the Liquid Mind CDs after a very stressful day and it melts the stress away. I am looking forward to Liquid Mind IX (if there is one in the works).
I wonder...Are there other people like me who checks Amazon periodically to see if Liquid Mind IX is out? :-) I also wonder if anyone has ever had a get together, like a concert, listening to this music?
Peace My Friends,
Tom

This music from "Liquid Mind" is in my mind the most relaxing music I have ever heard in my 69 years! I play it continously, when I'm on my daily walk, or just puttsin around the house. Ihave all 8 cd's and I recomend any or all of them without hesitation!!

If I listen to this lying down, I only make it to the 2nd or third section. Very relaxing.

This is by far the best Sleep album I have heard. Soothing and harmonious it gently takes you on a journey into bliss!!! Wonderful and highly recommended - in fact all 8 CDs by Liquid Mind are fulfilling perfectly all the needs of different aspects of Stress-relief.

I gotta say that I agree with the other 2-star reviews. While I think that this recording mildly succeeds at creating a relaxing mood, as actual *music*, it's lacking. It's just a lot of chord progressions that don't go anywhere, unresolved phrasing, random structure, etc. I realize this sounds like music geek babble, but these are just ways of saying that, as music, it's pretty annoying to listen to. As another reviewer stated, it's not very relaxing to listen to droning tones. If you are effectively relaxed by what I would call "calming noise", then perhaps this would work for you. But if you're looking for something that sounds like logical, calming, relaxing *music", I'd recommend something like "Sleep Therapy" from SonicAid's.

Liquid Mind music is truly universal. And while I may not be able to name which album a certain piece comes from; the music on each CD seems to encourage the feeling or state of mind named in the title. This album, Sleep, does help me drift of to sleep. The other albums, likewise, support Meditation, lifting of the Spirit, and other states of mind. Perhaps they are inter-changeable; in any event, this album's selections help me relax and prepare for sleep.

I was quite skeptical that Liquid Mind would actually work, but I have to say it does, it does, it does! I downloaded the cd and have used it to help me fall asleep, when I have woken up in the middle of the night, and even to fall back asleep in the morning when I wanted a bit more shut eye. When I set up the cd to play I put it on repeat and it doesn't interfere at all with my sleep patterns, it actually helps me fall into a deeper sleep. Until I decided to play it on repeat, I noticed there were a few times that I still woke up and then had some insomnia so I turned the cd back on to fall back to sleep. I find it helps me to concentrate on listening to the music instead of whatever thoughts are running thru my mind and keeping me awake.
I'd really recommend this, it's very soothing and it works.