Not sure when this happened, but ads have been automatically added to the video because of the copyright holders. It's very intrusive, and I just hope Robert Rich himself is receiving some money from this, not only the copyright holders, but who knows. A few ways around: - Listen to the album on Robert Rich's official Bandcamp robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/somnium (free streaming, 20$ download) - Use brower extensions like uBlock Origin or any adblocker (PC) - Use alternative UA-cam front-end apps like Vanced (Smartphone) - Subscribe to UA-cam Red
@@diemuffinmannMe too. I like the natural sounds around me when I am out in the forest, desert or wherever. I only listen to music if I am driving through the landscapes.
Why the hell are there ads? Is it not the most egregious thing to have extremely intrusive advertisements on an amazing ambient work like this? My experience was completely obliterated when McDonalds stepped into my vulnerable and peaceful headspace.
"So much goes on in nature and you have to calm down to see it, I mean you have to really calm down, and sometimes I think the power of low doses of psychedelics is simply that they make people sit down, shut up, and pay attention." - Terence McKenna
Back in the 70's I first heard Tangerine Dream LP "Rubicon" and it blew me away I now like the new breed people like Thom Brennan Robert Rich Steve Roach
the whole purpose of this piece was to listen to it through your sleep at night. 7 hours is perfectly normal sleeping time for humans, so why "song" wound have to be shorter, the idea was to fall asleep and to wake up in the same environmental tune, therefore the name is Somnium!
The first track is amazing. For those of you WoW players, it makes me feel like I'm walking through the lost jungles of Stranglethorn Vale, or the jaded mists of Feralas.
Sometimes when i'm listening to (especially Robert rich), i strike my mind into this "magic zone", i feel like my body is giving up, my ego dying, everything around me becoming one, you and me. It's like a room, where you and i are together alone in a perfect understanding.
Ads were automatically added by UA-cam because of the copyright claimers. An adblocker is the way to go. If you can't, just listen to Somnium on Robert Rich's Bandcamp. robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/somnium End copyright law now.
Dr. Hannibal Lester When ads are added by the copyright claimers, the uploader isn’t the one getting that revenue. We got a big Disney fan over here...
How about we have two genres for this kind of music from now on? Ambient Music for moderately melodic but largely astructured soundscapes that produce a mood, sustain that mood, and even evolve that mood. And then Ambiance. Somnium isn't even music. It IS ambiance.
@@fleaship6134 But it's often 1h compilation of different artists called Ambient Mix. That's not the same. THIS is true ambient artist. Of course there are very different pioneering bands in Ambient genre, but Rich is probably best at that ''peaceful'' minimalist ambience.
@@utqiagvik1991 I wasn't fucking referring to ambient compilation mixes. I was referring to incredible ambient albums from pioneering ambient artists such as SAW 2 by Aphex Twin, Sleep by Max Richter, Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno, TOWERS by TOWERS, 1979 by Deru, The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski plus there are lesser known ambient producers that have produced exquisite ethereal ambient albums like Mer De Revs by How To Disappear Completely and For Those Who... by Huerco S plus there are hundreds more!
This music was designed to give vivid dreams. It matches with the phases of sleep. It was used in an oneironauticum in 2015 or 2016. Play this while sleeping and use some oneirogen. It opens a new world of divination.
This was the first ambient track I ever found and lead me to discover some of the most beautiful and otherworldly tracks out there. This by far holds a special place in my heart. I remember discovering it at college and just letting it run while the classroom was quiet and everybody was working. It was between this and 8 hours of night train, another track which holds a place in my heart. Somnium, 8 Hour Night Train, Brad McBride and William Basinski's Watermusic II' were my introduction to ambient music, so peaceful and relaxing.
Nice choices as ambient intros. May I suggest Robert Curgenben's Climata? An amazing ambient and drone album that can be listened to normally or both discs simultaneously. It's a really beautiful journey.
The flute keeps blue balling me by never hitting F after hitting F# or D#. You expect F to be the next note in the scale, it should be the next note in the scale, but the flute fades out before hitting F. It’s obnoxious. But it also evokes emotions of longing, loss, and dread. I respect it.
This is very very good for studying. I cracked a mathematical proof that I've been having a hard time with for a while. It is nothing Earth shattering, but the point is...this music clears up blockages in thought! Thanks Robert Rich once again!
Combien de fois cette musique m'a sauvé... Dans les moments difficiles, je m'en retourne, je m'allonge dans la nuit et j'écoute simplement. Et je m'apaise. mon être s'unifie à nouveau. Et s'attache à l'essentiel. Merci Robert.
2:13:30 I got lost in what I was doing and forgot I had this playing, I started to wonder where that water-dripping sound was coming from... then realized I am a doofus.
This is more spiritual to me than spooky. It makes me feel...everything that once was at the beginning or perhaps the end of time. Then again it feels timeless. If you dedicate yourself to REALLY listening and leave behind all preconceived ideas of what is frightening and just listen to what you hear, you may hear and feel many things, even fear is there for a reason. This is more than "spooky" - It is the sound of life and birth and water, air , birds, breath...it is all that life holds. It is a true masterpiece. Leaving this world for now and opening the door to a better reality...unknown, yet peaceful and exciting. Fills me with a somewhat melancholy longing for somewhere, sometime...Thank you for sharing this world with all of us who love it. Peace to all, everywhere. Off to dreamland.
You enter into the dream realm. As you begin your journey. As you look up into the sky there is a light at the end of the rain forest. Your journey begins now. Find what lies at the end to awaken your inner you. To finally be free and achieve eternal bliss. To awaken from a cocoon to free yourself and become one. With yourself.
I usually listen to a lot of metal and rap, and to be honest I can't even remember what was the first ambient artist/album I ever heard (probably something by Spheruleus), but there is something about this music that always keeps me coming back, I drew some of my finest art and dreamt some of the most beautiful dreams while listening to this genre of music, there is just something so pure and honest about it that I just can't let it go. Just a random rant, just got home after a few drinks and felt like writing this, hope someone relates, enjoy this fine piece of music...
If you like this, you should look into the work of Steve Roach as well. Makes similar "panambient" music and has made a series of iOS apps called "Immersion Stations" that lets you take the individual elements of a track and cycle them together randomly for as long as you want.
It is a masterpiece. Yes. But this branch gives me shivers. I see myself lifting it, walking underneath and stepping into a vast, dripping forest where Things happen.
it's musical art. let's just put it that way. it is a form of meditating because if you let you mind go free on this track. you will see amazing things depending on how you feel that moment. this track gives me an other kind of daydreamish experience each time. you should go out in the mountains at full moon clear sky and be totally alone. have a fire up on a peak and watch how the earth spins and what the universe is looking like. even just walking in the woods with this track is amazing. ;)
I think the true meaning as to why this incredibly eery and dark ambient music is so calming is because we as humans find comfort and ease of mind in safety from the unknown. The differences in reaction to this music in a light forest or a pitch dark forest example this.
It’s likely lost listeners here listen to this music in the comfort of their beds, homes or cars rather than in the open camping or walking through the bush at night
because it is a music you can work listening to. delicate, ambient tunes in the air help focus on the task at hand while allowing your mind to remain relaxed and isolated from the common outside noise.
The second night I sit and listen to it. That's great. I imagined myself lying on my planet in a field, in the middle of a huge wasteland. This album is playing around and I'm happy.
I just listened to this entire thing today while awake in the middle of day for the hell of it, I feel like I'm sleeping with my eyes open. See why when people are sleeping this could become a real mind bender. Gonna need like 10 gallons of coffee for this one. A boring day well wasted, thanks Somnium!
ButterMeOrange This recording is making me go back to sleep,in anticipation of a long day on the regional rail to Jefferson hospital in center city Philadelphia
Jo Do Effects will depend of your personality and if you re on a bad moon or not. I ve listened this track many times and got a lot of different dreams. It works because this track is atmospheric and got a lot of variety of sounds
Боже! Какая же спокойная и расслабляющая музыка. Подумать только:я полгода не мог научиться медитировать,но при помощи этой музыки смог за 5 минут войти в транс.
Just discovered this artist. This is the kind of ambient music I like. The kind that has a spiritual feel to it. I have a feeling I’m going to be going through this guy’s discography..
I’ll never forget my Sophomore year of high school. AP World History, the teacher was barely there, all of my friends and I were free to fuck around and do whatever we wanted. One day, I remember laying on a table in the back of the room with this in my headphones and drifting to sleep. Yeah, that was a good class.
Такая музыка, англичане и могу и должны писать больше музыки про природу и то что там за горами есть райские места для очищения души, молодцы Англичане
because it sounds like nature but it is new and different. I don't know. it sounds like the music of the nature you want to be in. it makes you dream of other places you wish you could be. it makes you forget the stress of city life. or it makes you dream you live in a city or in a forest or in space or in hell. it makes you forget your life and takes you to another place.
I have insomnia regulary , and i listen all kind of shit to fall sleep. I have to say that this song is the best i hve listened for this. The most relaxin sound for along time
I have slept to the soft sounds of my 8 hour mp3 disks of classical music for a long time now, and can say that they have definitely influenced my sleep and my dreaming. But I will definitely give this one a try tonight. Fascinating! Thanks for the upload!
I've used this for meditation for years. A long time ago, there used to be an iOS app officially licensed by Robert Rich that played segments of each hour of Somnium in random, mixed order infinitely. You could adjust how long it took for the app to change segments. It was a fantastic ambient music app, but sadly it kinda disappeared from the app store years ago. I have an old first-gen iPod touch with this app and I still use it, but unfortunately it's kind of trapped in time...even if you took the app and manually installed it on a newer iOS device, it won't work since it was never updated for the new versions of the OS.
one gets a great sense of peace and tranquillity from listening to parts of Somnium. the widespread water sounds, either dripping from forest canopy or sounding like water sloshing against a boat , slow moving bass sounds , echoic reverberant feel.
this music with or without electronics exist since 40 or fifty days with tangerine dreams , klaus schultze , terry riley as pioneers ... and " the beat goes on " with news musicians , new technology , but it's always the same thing . In a style more ( ! ) dark , listen " phragments and Corinth " or " dark-Ambiant archives ( mixed session ) " ... Good trip , and excuse me for my bad english .
@@CS-fe5yg well basically she fell asleep trying to type the word comment and her finger slipped and held period for a second then didnt have the strength to keep it going so it ended like that and when she woke up she realized oh I feel asleep writing a UA-cam comment on somnium by Robert rich
Ich wünschte mir die Welt,die Menschen wären so wie diese wunderbaren Gefühle die ich habe, die ich im Rausche dieser wunderbaren Melody empfinde.Träume,Illusionen,und Wünsche können so bezaubern,wenn die richtige Musik Herz,und Seele umschließen.In sehnsuchtsvollen Spähren und unendlicher Weite entfliegt meine Seele meiner Erlösung entgegen,und wird eins mit dem Lichte der Schöpfung.Auf Ewig!
I Love it.....it's exactly what I've searched for for so long with no luck, but now I've found it......This is perfect for studying ,meditation and/or sleeping.
at 6:01:35,going to the end tonight without passing out or whatever, found out I had a talent for meditation though, with this, there are no "flaws" and seriously..this is genious. This is one of the Big 4-5 in MY life, 1. was Sex Pistols, my "wibe" was shooked by Nirvana too, Lemmy is the King of rock`n`roll, music are getting better and better, I love this. But after this night it can rest for a while, I`m mentally exhausted..dude
very good! I love to listen to this when I'm working on a painting or drawing or whatever.. It makes youre subconcious take over, so to speak. "It takes you to another place" great music.
The first 2.5 hours of etheric electronic are mellow and relaxing, after that it gets loud and annoying, like white noise. After about 2 hours it mellows out again.
Exactly ! Just like ur emotions, this piece has no structure but emotional resonance. I believe in someway this is a language, a language of subconscious.
I like to break this out every Fall. Isn’t this great? Musician myself and can’t imagine how much work a 7 HOUR RECORDING may have been. I love many ambient artists, my 2nd fave is Stars of the Lid, but Robert Rich is easily the best and should be in his own category. This man paints with sounds! If you like this one, check out his Perpetual, and Humidity. Nice long recordings that soothe and color and calm the overactive mind.
very well said, jamesedwardtheobald ... seems sometimes like music for music's sake is most enjoyable w/ out having to liken it to a specific film, a particular era or style or other cultural reference, (but maybe a lot of the people who feel that way don't post comments to youtube ?) in any case, thanks for pointing that out, music was probably more enjoyable when imagination 'met it 1/2 way', before it started getting re-purposed for films and other commercial uses
Not sure when this happened, but ads have been automatically added to the video because of the copyright holders.
It's very intrusive, and I just hope Robert Rich himself is receiving some money from this, not only the copyright holders, but who knows.
A few ways around:
- Listen to the album on Robert Rich's official Bandcamp robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/somnium (free streaming, 20$ download)
- Use brower extensions like uBlock Origin or any adblocker (PC)
- Use alternative UA-cam front-end apps like Vanced (Smartphone)
- Subscribe to UA-cam Red
I recomend AdBlock chrome extension, to remove ads from any website and you can browse happy and calm. Say no to excessive advertising :)
@@ScorreaT1 Big THIS. I don't think I've seen an ad in 10 years.
Quality Channel, thanks for the info
Just get Adblock for UA-cam. Screw ads, screw Google.
RIP Vanced 😭
The ads wild jolt your entire nervous system out of a deeply meditative state.
Hi, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, ADBLOCK?
@@TranceMissions Doesn't work for phones though
Scroll to about 10 seconds before the video ends, let it play to the end and then restart it. No ads.
@@pigammon7843 oooh thank you 🙏
@@pigammon7843 bless your soul
I am sure that I have logged at least 100 hours listening to this. Maybe many hundreds. This is my go to ambient. It's just that good.
Your comment made me smoke 12 bowls to my head and listen to the beginning 3 hours! Magical! Thanks!
me too! (Somnium & Bongs) 💚
Listening to this while hiking through an unknown forest was one of the most mystical experiences I've ever had in my life
I love to listen to his music in forests and hikes all alone... it's quite the experience
Normally people are implored to leave the house more. In your case, I would suggest less.
@@drunkroku4054lol
I always need to listen to my surroundings on hikes
@@diemuffinmannMe too. I like the natural sounds around me when I am out in the forest, desert or wherever.
I only listen to music if I am driving through the landscapes.
I listened to this while lying in my bed. I fell asleep and was shown a very vivid, touching dream of my childhood.
Dreaming can be such an experience
automated slayer 1789 ur a weak coward.
I'm not even sure if what automated said was a insult. Nevertheless even if it were. Is calling him a coward through this form just as cowardice?
Corey That person had made tons of terrible comments to folks all over this page, I reported him +gave him a dose of his own medicine.
What will reporting and name calling do for him?
Why the hell are there ads? Is it not the most egregious thing to have extremely intrusive advertisements on an amazing ambient work like this? My experience was completely obliterated when McDonalds stepped into my vulnerable and peaceful headspace.
I pay10 bucks a month no add 's no intrusion I don't have cable or any plug in device just UA-cam LOL😃 and have downloaded this to my phone .
I’m completely agreed with you ! That’s very annoying
You can use Adblock if you're using a PC. It's very nice for blocking all ads. adblockplus.org/
as far as I'm concerned if I can't have the option to skip it, it goes against my human rights.
Brave Browser has a built-in ad blocker. I listen to this with no interruptions for free :D
"So much goes on in nature and you have to calm down to see it, I mean you have to really calm down, and sometimes I think the power of low doses of psychedelics is simply that they make people sit down, shut up, and pay attention."
- Terence McKenna
Back in the 70's I first heard Tangerine Dream LP "Rubicon" and it blew me away I now like the new breed people like Thom Brennan Robert Rich Steve Roach
These guys started in the 80s 😅
@@yoavsnake i only was aware of them when i got on the internet...so ??
I love to sleep, read and draw with this great music in the background.. ideas just seem to drift through on something slippery
Same here Sir....Just need a good sound system..
What sound system you recommend?
Basically most ppl spend a fortune over sound system and live for the moment. Do u really enjoy listening everyday day ?
Jog Singh
yes
yeah I draw to this too...abstract drawings of balanced chaos that manifest before my very, very eyes.
the whole purpose of this piece was to listen to it through your sleep at night. 7 hours is perfectly normal sleeping time for humans, so why "song" wound have to be shorter, the idea was to fall asleep and to wake up in the same environmental tune, therefore the name is Somnium!
The first track is amazing. For those of you WoW players, it makes me feel like I'm walking through the lost jungles of Stranglethorn Vale, or the jaded mists of Feralas.
This is an old comment but i farm in wow to this.
Nerd
Sometimes when i'm listening to (especially Robert rich), i strike my mind into this "magic zone", i feel like my body is giving up, my ego dying, everything around me becoming one, you and me. It's like a room, where you and i are together alone in a perfect understanding.
I will listen to this with an ad blocker. Posting as a fan = good karma. Posting ads = bad karma
Ads were automatically added by UA-cam because of the copyright claimers. An adblocker is the way to go. If you can't, just listen to Somnium on Robert Rich's Bandcamp.
robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/somnium
End copyright law now.
Dr. Hannibal Lester When ads are added by the copyright claimers, the uploader isn’t the one getting that revenue. We got a big Disney fan over here...
Dr. Hannibal Lester So true! I forgot that UA-cam lets just anyone claim copyright whether or not they actual are! It just gets worse
@@perspektiw I prefer to actually own the works I create. Copyright law is important.
@@MightyDesperado Well, the uploader didn't create this music, so why on Earth should he get any of the revenue?
pure ambient, and it's not everyday you find it.
How about we have two genres for this kind of music from now on? Ambient Music for moderately melodic but largely astructured soundscapes that produce a mood, sustain that mood, and even evolve that mood. And then Ambiance. Somnium isn't even music. It IS ambiance.
@DerBlasewitzer Yes, but in quite different meaning than any other music. Maybe harsh noise is also ''not music, as we know it''.
Decent ambient is easy to locate on the Internet.
@@fleaship6134 But it's often 1h compilation of different artists called Ambient Mix. That's not the same. THIS is true ambient artist. Of course there are very different pioneering bands in Ambient genre, but Rich is probably best at that ''peaceful'' minimalist ambience.
@@utqiagvik1991 I wasn't fucking referring to ambient compilation mixes. I was referring to incredible ambient albums from pioneering ambient artists such as SAW 2 by Aphex Twin, Sleep by Max Richter, Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno, TOWERS by TOWERS, 1979 by Deru, The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski plus there are lesser known ambient producers that have produced exquisite ethereal ambient albums like Mer De Revs by How To Disappear Completely and For Those Who... by Huerco S plus there are hundreds more!
This music was designed to give vivid dreams. It matches with the phases of sleep. It was used in an oneironauticum in 2015 or 2016. Play this while sleeping and use some oneirogen. It opens a new world of divination.
This was the first ambient track I ever found and lead me to discover some of the most beautiful and otherworldly tracks out there. This by far holds a special place in my heart. I remember discovering it at college and just letting it run while the classroom was quiet and everybody was working. It was between this and 8 hours of night train, another track which holds a place in my heart. Somnium, 8 Hour Night Train, Brad McBride and William Basinski's Watermusic II' were my introduction to ambient music, so peaceful and relaxing.
Squarezone definitely
Nice choices as ambient intros. May I suggest Robert Curgenben's Climata? An amazing ambient and drone album that can be listened to normally or both discs simultaneously. It's a really beautiful journey.
The flute keeps blue balling me by never hitting F after hitting F# or D#. You expect F to be the next note in the scale, it should be the next note in the scale, but the flute fades out before hitting F. It’s obnoxious. But it also evokes emotions of longing, loss, and dread. I respect it.
Whose that 8 Hour Night Train from? I cannot seem to find it
This is very very good for studying. I cracked a mathematical proof that I've been having a hard time with for a while. It is nothing Earth shattering, but the point is...this music clears up blockages in thought! Thanks Robert Rich once again!
Combien de fois cette musique m'a sauvé...
Dans les moments difficiles, je m'en retourne, je m'allonge dans la nuit et j'écoute simplement.
Et je m'apaise. mon être s'unifie à nouveau. Et s'attache à l'essentiel.
Merci Robert.
Il t'en prie 😏
I hope you've been doing well, 10 years on.
2:13:30 I got lost in what I was doing and forgot I had this playing, I started to wonder where that water-dripping sound was coming from... then realized I am a doofus.
I thought i was the only one
This is Extremly Relaxing!! I've never found in my Life a music so Pure and Full of Peace!! Robert Rich come from the Eden Of Music!!!
One hour in and this is so infinitely relaxing, wow. What a gorgeous trip.
Same here Sir....
You’re right, try same artist: Perpetual. 8 hours of pure meditative audio.
Always coming back to this. Absolutely flawless material.
Yes, many returns indeed and I sleep with it often
@automated slayer 1789 I back as well. How are u ?
This is more spiritual to me than spooky. It makes me feel...everything that once was at the beginning or perhaps the end of time. Then again it feels timeless. If you dedicate yourself to REALLY listening and leave behind all preconceived ideas of what is frightening and just listen to what you hear, you may hear and feel many things, even fear is there for a reason. This is more than "spooky" - It is the sound of life and birth and water, air , birds, breath...it is all that life holds. It is a true masterpiece. Leaving this world for now and opening the door to a better reality...unknown, yet peaceful and exciting. Fills me with a somewhat melancholy longing for somewhere, sometime...Thank you for sharing this world with all of us who love it. Peace to all, everywhere. Off to dreamland.
I agree totally, give me that imagination and Self question myself often.
There's a difference between falling through darkness and traversing it. Do you have a torch?
You enter into the dream realm. As you begin your journey. As you look up into the sky there is a light at the end of the rain forest. Your journey begins now. Find what lies at the end to awaken your inner you. To finally be free and achieve eternal bliss. To awaken from a cocoon to free yourself and become one. With yourself.
Beautiful comment.
I usually listen to a lot of metal and rap, and to be honest I can't even remember what was the first ambient artist/album I ever heard (probably something by Spheruleus), but there is something about this music that always keeps me coming back, I drew some of my finest art and dreamt some of the most beautiful dreams while listening to this genre of music, there is just something so pure and honest about it that I just can't let it go. Just a random rant, just got home after a few drinks and felt like writing this, hope someone relates, enjoy this fine piece of music...
If you like this, you should look into the work of Steve Roach as well. Makes similar "panambient" music and has made a series of iOS apps called "Immersion Stations" that lets you take the individual elements of a track and cycle them together randomly for as long as you want.
I listen this week to all Death album, Obituary, Nile, Coltrane and now Robert. Ambient belong to everyone , just like metal.
You should try ambient Black Metal like Alcest, Lustre, Les Discrets
@@Indianpsychonaut those are shoegaze and black. Not a huge fan besides Alcest tho
@@PathodDayshade Lustre's music is really close to nature sounds especially the new albums
I'm in Somnium World. It's safe, get in here and close the door. The rain is almost over...
in another 7 hours
daniel morris ok brad pitt
everything after 1:50 is nightmare material, imo
Said the spider to the fly.:)
Maria Diaz A world of spiders Maria...
Recommended to the lovers of the deep sound around. Sit back and relax and let Rob Rich take you on a journey.
This is one of my favorite all time albums .... the best of the best.....
another night of perfect sleep, thanks!
Out of this world!!!For sure
This is a Masterpiece
Yes it is!
Great album...
No one can deny the healing effect of music after listening to this, no one
It is a masterpiece. Yes. But this branch gives me shivers. I see myself lifting it, walking underneath and stepping into a vast, dripping forest where Things happen.
I love your imagination...are u a writer ?
@@SelfHealingGod No, but you can't imagine how many times in my life i was asked this question :)
@@TheKokain78 Well meaning there is a hidden behind it. Your write imagination, not words for others. Your words gave me imagination. Thanks.
Listened to this on an eight hour flight to Hawaii.
You're a terrible troll
automated slayer 1789 a troll and a baby
huh?! why the heck would you even say this stuff ....just listen to this vid and calm down LOL
I freaking love Hawaii... I lived on Molokai for a few months and have been to every island. I need to go back at some point... cheers
What did you do on the last or first hour?
This is like something you'd hear in the background of Half Life 2 or something. So perfect.
automated slayer 1789 why do you let hate live within you ?
it's musical art. let's just put it that way. it is a form of meditating because if you let you mind go free on this track. you will see amazing things depending on how you feel that moment. this track gives me an other kind of daydreamish experience each time. you should go out in the mountains at full moon clear sky and be totally alone. have a fire up on a peak and watch how the earth spins and what the universe is looking like. even just walking in the woods with this track is amazing. ;)
I think the true meaning as to why this incredibly eery and dark ambient music is so calming is because we as humans find comfort and ease of mind in safety from the unknown. The differences in reaction to this music in a light forest or a pitch dark forest example this.
It’s likely lost listeners here listen to this music in the comfort of their beds, homes or cars rather than in the open camping or walking through the bush at night
The distant, perpetual train whistle is an especially haunting touch!
Somewhere just before the 3 hour mark, I think. 2:53:00
because it is a music you can work listening to.
delicate, ambient tunes in the air help focus on the task at hand while allowing your mind to remain relaxed and isolated from the common outside noise.
The second night I sit and listen to it. That's great. I imagined myself lying on my planet in a field, in the middle of a huge wasteland. This album is playing around and I'm happy.
I just listened to this entire thing today while awake in the middle of day for the hell of it, I feel like I'm sleeping with my eyes open. See why when people are sleeping this could become a real mind bender. Gonna need like 10 gallons of coffee for this one. A boring day well wasted, thanks Somnium!
i feel utterly unnerved and filled with anxiety while listening to this. it feels like my mind and body are separating, and it is not a good feeling.
You're glimpsing the abyss my friend, people get lost there. Especially with psychedelics. Memories of a dream, long forgotten...
ButterMeOrange
This recording is making me go back to sleep,in anticipation of a long day on the regional rail to Jefferson hospital in center city Philadelphia
@@crazierthorn10 Well put my friend. The unnameable dreams whisper from behind the veil
Great
Big up from POLAND ❤
Tak, z tym się zgadzam
i`ve listened this the whole night and i woke up many times because i had nightmares.
YourDeath311 around the middle the album gets some scary sounds, had the same
Dolan Duk You got nightmares from this too?
Jo Do Lets say It gave some uneasy dreams!
Jo Do Effects will depend of your personality and if you re on a bad moon or not.
I ve listened this track many times and got a lot of different dreams.
It works because this track is atmospheric and got a lot of variety of sounds
dude, that's just your reflection. relax
Боже! Какая же спокойная и расслабляющая музыка. Подумать только:я полгода не мог научиться медитировать,но при помощи этой музыки смог за 5 минут войти в транс.
Just discovered this artist. This is the kind of ambient music I like. The kind that has a spiritual feel to it.
I have a feeling I’m going to be going through this guy’s discography..
Another Masterpiece among others by this Brilliant and Talented Genius.
The final portion of this album is incredible.
👍👍
sometimes you just have to relax
It is so peaceful and I feel like I'm having a good dream. I love it so much. Let's continue...)))
I’ll never forget my Sophomore year of high school. AP World History, the teacher was barely there, all of my friends and I were free to fuck around and do whatever we wanted. One day, I remember laying on a table in the back of the room with this in my headphones and drifting to sleep. Yeah, that was a good class.
Такая музыка, англичане и могу и должны писать больше музыки про природу и то что там за горами есть райские места для очищения души, молодцы Англичане
все творцы одинаково ценны, они отделены от понятия нации
hour 5 (especially 5:32:00) has the most beautiful drone sounds I have ever heard.
'Resonance' is another classic Robert Rich egg-scape
Yes, but the time is wrong, it's 3:23:00
I recommend you reading "The Willows" of Algernon Blackwood while listening to this. It's mystical and frightening experience at the same time.
archive.org/download/TheWillows/The%20Willows%20by%20Algernon%20Blackwood.pdf
because it sounds like nature but it is new and different. I don't know. it sounds like the music of the nature you want to be in. it makes you dream of other places you wish you could be. it makes you forget the stress of city life. or it makes you dream you live in a city or in a forest or in space or in hell. it makes you forget your life and takes you to another place.
this music is not for tit heads.ok the queen's of Liverpool.
I'm going to places I've never been before
I have insomnia regulary , and i listen all kind of shit to fall sleep. I have to say that this song is the best i hve listened for this. The most relaxin sound for along time
I deserve music like this for free on the internet and without ads
just adblock
mustard grass
wow. says who? entitled much?
I have slept to the soft sounds of my 8 hour mp3 disks of classical music for a long time now, and can say that they have definitely influenced my sleep and my dreaming. But I will definitely give this one a try tonight. Fascinating! Thanks for the upload!
Between the murmurs of the forest, the wind that belies the sea, and metallurgical plant !
Nice to meet you here my good friend. Your taste in music i salute .
@@SelfHealingGod thank you very much and have a nice day!!!
Listening to this in a dark room right now while enjoying some top notch mushrooms 🐭
it's such an escape...
I've used this for meditation for years. A long time ago, there used to be an iOS app officially licensed by Robert Rich that played segments of each hour of Somnium in random, mixed order infinitely. You could adjust how long it took for the app to change segments. It was a fantastic ambient music app, but sadly it kinda disappeared from the app store years ago. I have an old first-gen iPod touch with this app and I still use it, but unfortunately it's kind of trapped in time...even if you took the app and manually installed it on a newer iOS device, it won't work since it was never updated for the new versions of the OS.
I feel like I'm alone in a spaceship.
You're not alone.
Great for D&D ambience while players try to avoid terrors of the night.
one gets a great sense of peace and tranquillity from listening to parts of Somnium.
the widespread water sounds, either dripping from forest canopy or sounding like water sloshing against a boat , slow moving bass sounds , echoic reverberant feel.
Never Done Before! One Thousand and One Nights of Sleeping Music…Thank You Robert Rich.
I listened to this when I was awake and it's still a pretty great ambient/drone album.
It's to realize terapy geeting out soul of dream and life Thinking on waves and sea , and sphere of air.
Means you are healing brother..
The only times i am able to dream is by listening to this master piece!!
Madness my old friend I have come again..
this music with or without electronics exist since 40 or fifty days with tangerine dreams , klaus schultze , terry riley as pioneers ... and " the beat goes on " with news musicians , new technology , but it's always the same thing . In a style more ( ! ) dark , listen " phragments and Corinth " or " dark-Ambiant archives ( mixed session ) " ... Good trip , and excuse me for my bad english .
a soundtrack to many late nights in the library
My God that will had been awesome..
I fell asleep while typing this com....
While typing this com? Whats a com? Hey!! Can you wake up and explain this?
@@CS-fe5yg well basically she fell asleep trying to type the word comment and her finger slipped and held period for a second then didnt have the strength to keep it going so it ended like that and when she woke up she realized oh I feel asleep writing a UA-cam comment on somnium by Robert rich
@@PebanbayPlayz yeah they know
Ich wünschte mir die Welt,die Menschen wären so wie diese wunderbaren Gefühle die ich habe, die ich im Rausche dieser wunderbaren Melody empfinde.Träume,Illusionen,und Wünsche können so bezaubern,wenn die richtige Musik Herz,und Seele umschließen.In sehnsuchtsvollen Spähren und unendlicher Weite entfliegt meine Seele meiner Erlösung entgegen,und wird eins mit dem Lichte der Schöpfung.Auf Ewig!
Absolutely amazing. Leaves me with so many questions.
"where are my pants"
a sublime masterpiece
I Love it.....it's exactly what I've searched for for so long with no luck, but now I've found it......This is perfect for studying ,meditation and/or sleeping.
Reminds me of the Myst series, good memories.
2 hour mark, ima n alcoholic and hearing these liquids drop to the floor is some crazy psychedelic shit...
too short
😂😂😂
Too $hort, I love his albums!
Just put the next one...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rockeem iswudt
Perfect! The perfect album for every dreamer!
at 6:01:35,going to the end tonight without passing out or whatever, found out I had a talent for meditation though, with this, there are no "flaws" and seriously..this is genious.
This is one of the Big 4-5 in MY life, 1. was Sex Pistols, my "wibe" was shooked by Nirvana too, Lemmy is the King of rock`n`roll, music are getting better and better, I love this.
But after this night it can rest for a while, I`m mentally exhausted..dude
such an amazing piece
I do believe Robert Rich has orchestrated some of my past dreams... feels like stepping through a portal to astral travel... wonderful.
!Impresionante! Es la Aurora Boreal auditiva.
very good! I love to listen to this when I'm working on a painting or drawing or whatever.. It makes youre subconcious take over, so to speak. "It takes you to another place" great music.
The first 2.5 hours of etheric electronic are mellow and relaxing, after that it gets loud and annoying, like white noise. After about 2 hours it mellows out again.
Sonido de lluvia+relajacion+suspense un poco+toque cosmico=maravilla maravillosa.oye.no se cuando lo escucharé entero
Lo pudistes terminar? Ya van 8 meses de tú post lol. Apenas yo estoy empezando.
@@AthenaGM Lo terminaste?
Love it.Start listening when I get tired.Zzzzzz
truly amazing, you can get things done while listening to this, relax to it, have a good sleep and dream with it, brilliant in every way
Because it make me feel in other place, like if the music is telling a story wich involves me
Whoa this guy was doing ambience before it was cool! Nice!
this is largely where my head resides, thank you, robert.
Exactly ! Just like ur emotions, this piece has no structure but emotional resonance. I believe in someway this is a language, a language of subconscious.
when I listen this piece of music, i wake-up in a lucid dream... But finaly ends in a nightmare. Thanks for this masterpiece.
I like to break this out every Fall. Isn’t this great? Musician myself and can’t imagine how much work a 7 HOUR RECORDING may have been. I love many ambient artists, my 2nd fave is Stars of the Lid, but Robert Rich is easily the best and should be in his own category. This man paints with sounds! If you like this one, check out his Perpetual, and Humidity. Nice long recordings that soothe and color and calm the overactive mind.
AMAZING moment in music history.....a musical sleep in....for lucid dream purposes.....I wonder how well it worked?
this is exactly like ambient music from the amazing chernobyl game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
let's smoke magic cigarettes and everything will return to its place
Can't agree. This was done years earlier. So it's the other way around. :)
Actually I’ve heard this ambient in one of the stalker mods, very immersive
@@tbohkyc4425 which mod? i want to play hehe ;p
@@halfpipefreak Radiophobia 2, I swear I also heard it in Anomaly, but Radiophobia was the mod from where I Shazamed it
very well said, jamesedwardtheobald ... seems sometimes like music for music's sake is most enjoyable w/ out having to liken it to a specific film, a particular era or style or other cultural reference, (but maybe a lot of the people who feel that way don't post comments to youtube ?) in any case, thanks for pointing that out, music was probably more enjoyable when imagination 'met it 1/2 way', before it started getting re-purposed for films and other commercial uses
draccarddrac interesting, good point
This gave me ASMR
I love this music.