Thread: Alarm Clock

I don't have any advice, unfortunately. I have, however, experienced this exact same thing.

In one of my dreams I heard an extremely obnoxious noise that I couldn't identify. Throughout the entire dream I was searching for the search of the noise with no luck at all. I eventually woke up to the same obnoxious sound of my alarm clock.

My only real suggestion is to move your alarm clock closer to your ears, maybe? If it's possible turn the volume up?

Originally Posted by Casualtie

My only real suggestion is to move your alarm clock closer to your ears, maybe? If it's possible turn the volume up?[/b]

Or. . . train yourself to use the Bio-clock! I find it quite accurate and works well when the intention is set.

Maybe change the alarm sound to the radio or something. Maybe the difference in sound (rather than the beeping) will catch your attention better. Then once you find yourself incorporating the radio into your dreams, switch back to the beeping/buzzing.

Originally Posted by Burns

Maybe change the alarm sound to the radio or something. Maybe the difference in sound (rather than the beeping) will catch your attention better. Then once you find yourself incorporating the radio into your dreams, switch back to the beeping/buzzing.[/b]

That would probably work. If you have an Ipod, you could make it play some song that you never listen to as the alarm, and then use that as a cue to know you're dreaming whenever you hear it if all else fails, and you are completely unable to wake up from an alarm (I can't wake up from an alarm unless I'm already sleeping lighty).

Change to an air-horn. =) That's not a sound you can ignore . . . until it makes you deaf!

To wake you in the morning, I suggest you change it to a radio, as well. Make it loud!

But, at the same time, if you can keep the old alarm, you can turn the "annoying dream sound" it makes into a dream sign.

CITRUS ALARM CLOCK. Google it!

You can play ANY sound file (for example, a song that you really like). IN ADDITION, the volume gradually increases. So, you can set your computer volume to where if you played a sound, it would bust out your eardrums. Then have it gradually increase to that volume. Likely, you will get up before it gets TOO loud and turn it off. Works all the time. Even if it does incorporate into your dream, you will soon be woken up, no doubt. Furthermore you can change the sound.

Yes I will look into what you have said.

I would like to address another issue I have been having in the mornings. Whenever my alarm clock goes off it either injects itself into my dreams or I just turn it off and drift back into dream land and that prevents me from writing in my dream journal. I am not a morning person and I am just not in the mood to write in the mornings.

If you don't want to write, you can always use a tape recorder by your bed. Hit a button and just say what's on your mind.

What wakes me up best is a loud radio. I tune it to the rock station.

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

For whatever reason, instead of waking me up, my alarm clock has injected itself into my dreams as some horrible unknown noise. Actually I don't really know if there is any advise for this to be given =p[/b]

Here's one you might try. It vibrates really strong, and is supposed to be one of, if not the strongest, vibrating alarm clocks available. In addition it has a 4 minute snooze alarm that can be reset as many times as you wish.

I'm still experimenting with it, but I like being woke up by the vibration rather than a sound, and it really puts out a strong vibration.

http://www.epill.com/sonicshaker.html?sour...CFRlmWAod7xHQHw

There are several other companies that sell this clock so you might be able to find it a couple dollars cheaper, but this company has a good guarentee, good service, and had someone knowlegable I could talk to that helped me find the strongest alarm clock they had.

Originally Posted by slothming

Or. . . train yourself to use the Bio-clock! I find it quite accurate and works well when the intention is set. [/b]

And how would I do that?

Originally Posted by CymekSniper

And how would I do that?[/b]

I think they are talking about using your own internal clock to wake you up by concentrating on what time you wish to wake up while falling asleep. Here's an article I found on it while googling. http://www.wonderquest.com/bio-clock-1.htm

Although this technique does work rather well, I still like having an alarm clock as a backup. If fact just setting an alarm clock often activates my bio-clock to wake me up right before my alarm goes off.

I used my vibrating clock to wake up last night by putting it under my pillow, and here's how it went.

I set it to go off about 2 hours after going to bed and it woke me up with the recall of 1 dream. The one thing I dislike about this vibrating clock is that it is so hard to find the snooze button, so I finally just got up and turned it off.

After setting it to go off for 2 hours later again, the next time I was awoke by my bio clock right after a dream, only 45 minutes after going back to bed.

Two hours later, the vibrating clock woke me up again, and since I was having a good dream I hit the snooze button to finish my dream and put the alarm clock on my chest since it was easier for me to find the snooze button when it was there. After hitting the snooze button 4 times I finally decided to get up as I had now remembered 3 dreams from this session.

About an hour later my biological clock woke me after a dream, and since it was almost time to get up to go to work, I turned the vibrating alarm clock off.

I wish someone would make a wrist watch with a vibrating alarm that would go off of at least a minutes instead of the customary 20 seconds, with a customizable snooze button in which the amount of snooze time could be set, and a coundown timer that could be set for up to 4 1/2 hours. This would be awesome for helping a person to become more aware in their dreams.

I knew what they were talking about but I was wondering how to train yourself to use it.

this happens to me sometimes, not very often, i will be in my dream and i will hear a constant ringing, my dream will begin to fall apart or get to a really good part and then the dream will end and i awake to my alarm clock, very annoying

Back to first post, woudln't this be a good dream sign???? I don't see how it's a bad thing.

As for the bio-clock thing you can either look at the time before you go to bed and say to yourself it is about 'x' I will wake up around 'y'. Approximately 'z' hours.

Or you can set your alarm off and get up EXACTLY when it goes off everyday for 2 weeks, then you will have this ingrained in your sub-conscious to wake up at that time. However, just say that after you stop using the alarm, you don't wake up straight away or very soon after you will screw up the sub-conscious part which is making you wake up and you will cease to be awoken at this time. But doing it a few times every now and again won't matter.

But for you I think the first option is better since your alarm isn't waking you up. But if you want to do this I suggest, as other people have said, changing the tone of your alarm.

Ugh, I had this happen once! In my dream one of my friends got on all fours and started making this very annoying noise, we were all pissed about it and it was extremely irritating. I woke to realize it was my alarm, lol.

What I did was get an alarm clock with two settings. I set one to go off at a certain time, then another to go off 15 minutes later. I've never slept through both.. and I would hate to see two people on all fours making those kinda noises!! What a dream THAT would be huh? Hahhaa.... good luck!

If your computer is near your bed get it to wake you up with a song from your playlist.

You can find Alarm Clock 2 on the downloads page from Apple if you have a Mac, if you have a PC I'm sure that there are similar programs out there. Depending on your computer you may need to put it to sleep instead of turning it off, very few computers can turn themselves on.

Sometimes my alarm clock enters my dreams, sometimes I sleep through it, and sometimes I wake up but fall right back to sleep. What I need is a better alarm clock. I will look into the bio-clock and that vibrating clock. I cannot get an alarm clock on my computer because then I run the risk of an overnight power-failure which could delete all my data due to the fact that I am running an expired windows xp trial OS on my computer. I just put it into hibernate so it actually does turn off, but if I ever reboot it then I'm screwed.

Well now, it's 4:00 AM in the east coast and the EBS noise just woke me up on the radio. But after shaking off the initial surprise, I found out I had spectacular recall, even remembering a FA (I was actually waking up at 3:00 to record my dreams on my computer)!! Does anyone else get better recall if sudden external stimuli such as an alarm clock wakes you up instead of waking up slowly? I didn't remember much at first, but it came to me spectacularly, later! Or is this just because I woke up in the middle of a sleep cycle?

Originally Posted by mini0991

Well now, it's 4:00 AM in the east coast and the EBS noise just woke me up on the radio. But after shaking off the initial surprise, I found out I had spectacular recall, even remembering a FA (I was actually waking up at 3:00 to record my dreams on my computer)!! Does anyone else get better recall if sudden external stimuli such as an alarm clock wakes you up instead of waking up slowly? I didn't remember much at first, but it came to me spectacularly, later! Or is this just because I woke up in the middle of a sleep cycle?[/b]

It is probably that you woke up in the middle of a dream that made it easier to remember the dream. Waking up in the middle of a dream almost always makes it easier for me to remember a dream. Otherwise I sometimes have to lay there for 2 or 3 minutes without moving until the dream comes to me.

Or is this just because I woke up in the middle of a sleep cycle?[/b]

lol You always wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle. All of sleep is a cycle. Assuming you meant the dream part of the sleep cycle, then yes, it is mostly easier to remember a dream when you wake up in the middle of it, just like nightmares that scare you awake! You always remember them.