DEILD question.

Hi er'body, was wondering if an alarm would affect a DEILD attempt, would it wake up your mind to much?
PS. its beeping for one minute.

thanks.:)

I guess that depends on how loud and annoying the alarm is. Don't use the same alarm noise that you use to wake yourself up in the morning. It's possible that you may just wake up completely due to natural response to that noise.

You should be fine, just use an alarm that's only loud enough to wake you up enough to achieve your goal, not one that's so loud you wake up entirely. (Well, you should wake up, but what I mean is that you don't want to wake up so hard that you lose your will to go back to sleep.) It may take some experimenting to find the right setting and strength for the alarm.

It have worked for me, but the problem was that it was hard to find the time when I should wake myself up. So I used Lucidology's time setups which wakes me up in intervalls and I got some lucid dreams with that, but they lasted a really short time because the next alarm woke me up some minutes later. I used a very loud alarm and it was on autosnooze for 10 seconds and in order for this to work the same WILD "rules" apply you have to lay still and have closed eyes on the awakening. But otherwise no it doesn't affect the DEILD attempt.

Well an alarm would naturally wake you up, rather than the other option in which you realise you have woken up and proceed to attempt the DEILD.

Maybe one minute is a bit too long..but just make sure the alarm tone isn't too jolting/loud/annoying.

I've always personally liked doing it the old fashion way :) waking up on my own without other devices. I did use an alarm when I was practicing the technique in the beginning but now I can't because my gf gets mad when I wake her in the middle of the night :P

Used an alarm that lasted 3 seconds. You have to find out the optimum setting of duration and time for your alarm. It can't be too long that makes you more awake, neither too short that you wouldn't even notice that the alarm ringed. And it can't be too loud that it makes you jump off the bed and neither too subtle that you don't even wake up.

So try out various alarms until you find a nice one! Just combine the alarm with an autosuggestion "I lay still when I wake up" or "I lay still when my alarm goes on"

It doesn't hurt to try. Try it out tonight and let us know how it goes. It will take some experimentation to get the timing, volume, and duration right. I find it is more trouble than it is worth.

so am i supposed to be barely awake?

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Originally Posted by IchimaruTaichou

so am i supposed to be barely awake?

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Barely awake? It helps. On any method of LD attempt I would also suggest visualizing.