Sleep Programing With Sleep Affirmations – How To Make Your Own Sleep Tape

• Sleep tapes directly target the subconscious mind.
• Sleep tapes can provide 6-8 hours of positive reinforcement each night.
• Sleep tapes are effective at programming 80% of the population!  

 What Is A Sleep Tape?             

A sleep tape is an audio recording that contains several affirmation statements, which are repeated in a continuous loop while you sleep.

As the subconscious is always recording new information (even while you sleep) a sleep tape provides an excellent opportunity to flood the mind with positive reinforcement.

When a sleep tape is used with other programming methods, the subconscious receives positive reinforcement throughout the day and night, thereby accelerating the process of reprogramming.

However do not confuse a sleep tape with “sleep learning” which is something different, and something I do not believe to be effective.

What Can I Use A Sleep Tape For?

A sleep tape can be used with any information you would like to put into the subconscious, so the possibilities really are endless. But here are a few ideas…

• Use a sleep tape to loose weight.
• Use a sleep tape to increase confidence.
• Use a sleep tape to increase sales.
• Use a sleep tape to get a certain job.
• Use a sleep tape to grow back hair.
• Use a sleep tape to attract a lover into your life.
• Use a sleep tape to improve your health.

How To Make A Sleep Tape

A sleep tape does require some effort to create and a small amount of technical knowledge, but in my opinion the effort is well worth it.

Creating Spoken Affirmations For Your Sleep Tape

To begin, you first need to decide what areas of your life you would like to improve and then create several related affirmation statements.

It is important these statements are spoken in the present positive tense, so should start with “I have…” or “I am…”.

Click here for detailed examples of affirmations.

Recording Affirmations For Your Sleep Tape

Once you have decided on your affirmations (I recommend a maximum of 5-10 statements) you now need to record them. Here you have 2 options.

1 – Record your own voice.

2 – Use a text to speech program to do it for you.

I personally prefer* using a text to speech program, such as the one found here (I recommend Audrey UK Voice).

If you are using this method to create your sleep tape, type in an affirmation and save the spoken statement as a file.

Do this for all your affirmation statements.

*Sleep tapes may be more effective if they are recorded in a voice that is not your own.

Create A Booster Statement For Your Sleep Tape

It is also a good idea to create an additional “booster statement” to encourage your subconscious to accept these affirmations. A statement I use is…

“I accept these commands and use them to benefit my life in positive ways”

You can use that statement or create something similar that you are comfortable with.

Editing Affirmations For Your Sleep Tape

This is the part that requires some technical knowledge, but it really isn’t that difficult.

With the affirmations you have recorded (and have saved as files) you now need to repeat these affirmations in a continuous loop for 6-8 hours, depending on how long you normally sleep.

You will also need to create a period of silence at the beginning of the sleep tape. How long you make this silence, will depend on how quickly you fall asleep.

I have 2 hours of silence at the beginning of my sleep tape, so I only hear the messages during sleep and upon waking.

The program I use to edit my affirmations is called “Wavelab”, but there are other free audio editing programs you can use such as Audacity which do similar things.

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Wavelab download here.

If importing the text to speech affirmations you recorded, in wavelab select file, new wave and make sure sample rate is manually set to 16000. Then edit, insert audio file at start and repeat for each of your affirmation files.

Once these are all inserted add a 5 second gap between them, then select all, copy and edit, paste special, multiple copies until you get something close to 1 hour in total play time. Save this file. Then edit select all, silence to add 1 hour silence at start. Repeat until you have 3 hour silence at start.

Then save as a separate file. You can save this as wave file, and mp3 file also. 16000 / 16000 mono mp3 setting is fine for sleep tape. Although you can make better quality if you don’t care about file size. Under the mp3 setting click encoding, then edit to enter these settings.

The 1 hour file you have created copy and past in windows so you have around 4 copies, then use the mp3 joiner to join all the files into 1. This is how i make my sleep tapes. Sleep tape around 60mb is normal, for 7-8 hour tape.

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The best way to create your sleep tape is to copy and paste your affirmations until they repeat for 6-8 hours. Then insert a period of silence at the start (remember to include the booster statement at the start of your affirmations!).

The resulting file is likely to be very large, so you now need to convert it into mp3 format. Don’t worry about selecting a high bit rate (quality) as you are working with spoken words and so can quite comfortably lower the quality to get a smaller file size. My sleep tape is around 100mb.

Trouble Creating The Files?  

If you have trouble creating one large file, repeat the affirmations for 1 hour in your audio editing program and save it as an mp3 file. Do this 6-8 times to create additional identical 1 hour files.

Now use the same file but this time insert your silence at the start and save it as a separate file. To avoid confusion label the files “silence”, hour 1, hour 2, hour 3 etc…

When you have done this, you should have 6-8 identical separate files that contain 1 hour of affirmations each and also a separate file that has a period of silence at the start. You can now use an mp3 joiner to merge these files together into one large file. 

Playing The Sleep Tape

If you have successful created your sleep tape, congratulations! You now have an excellent tool for mind programming, which you can use everyday. But first you need to a way to play it!

My preferred option is to keep the sleep tape in mp3 format and play it via an mp3 player.

However if you prefer you can convert it to CD format and play it via a CD player, or alternatively use your computer if you leave it on at night.

Since you will most likely find it difficult to sleep with headphones on, I recommend using small portable speakers. These can be wedged between your mattress and headboard underneath your pillow.

If you do this you should test out the volume so that you can hear it while you sleep, but make sure the volume is not too loud otherwise it will wake you up!

Please do not sleep with headphones on. This will most likely damage your hearing. The sleep tape does not have to be played very loud. Ideally it should be played on a bedside cabinet at a low volume, or via some small portable speakers tucked underneath your pillow.

Sleep Tape Final Thoughts

A sleep tape is an excellent method for accelerating the process of mind reprogramming, as it directly targets the subconscious mind for a prolonged period of time. It is like having someone praise you for 6-8 hours everyday, sooner or later your subconscious will begin to take notice!

The Sleep Tape May Influence Your Dreams

When you start using your sleep tape, you may notice something strange happening to your dreams. For me the first thing that happened was a person speaking my affirmations to me in a dream.

After using the sleep tape for a few weeks, I then began to notice that the majority of my dreams were in some way consistent with my affirmation statements.

If you experience anything similar to this it is an indication that your subconscious is being modified, which means the sleep tape is working! But don’t worry if you can’t remember your dreams, as sleep tapes will be effective for 80% of the population.

If you would like to learn more about sleep tapes I recommend listening to this speech given by Aldous Huxley (author of A Brave New World). In it he talks about controlling the mind and makes reference to the use of sleep tapes, very interesting stuff!

Can You Help? Share Your Experiences / Thoughts

I do not claim to have all the answers on sleep tapes. This research is an educated best guess based on the things I have read, and the people I have heard talk about sleep programing. It is an ongoing process, and I am constantly tweaking my sleep tapes based on new research I discover.

The US Army has been said to use sleep tapes on some of their soldiers, so I have no doubt that sleep tapes are potentially very valuable mind programing tools.

Where I am uncertain is what the best method of delivering the affirmations should be, i.e. how should the affirmations be phrased? How often do they need to be repeated? Periods of silence between each affirmation? How quickly do they have an affect? What sort of programing are they most useful for? etc.. I suspect the key is in how the affirmations are phrased.

The more we can learn about sleep tapes from peoples experiences the better sleep tapes we will be able to create in the future. So please share your thoughts, suggestions and experiences.