Thread: Question regarding REM cycles and how to find them?

You actually wake up after every REM phase automatically anyway - no need for alarms to get that effect. Just usually we don't do anything else than turn over and sleep on and forget about it.
You need a pre-set intention to notice it, and arouse yourself fully, and note down the time, and journal your dream.

Mantras/self-suggestions going to bed will work. "I wake up after every dream I vividly remember it, and write it down" or some such for several times. After a while you have the usual times, when your REMs end, at least the more important for LDing later ones.

Take a look on Wikipedia about sleep cycles, REM and non-REM, so you can understand how it all fits together and get an idea about duration and quantities. Then you should be able to plot it down - given you have a regular sleep cycle.


By the way - BatteryCharged - if you wake up in the middle of a REM phase, it doesn't suck, you are very lucky, because you can hold completely still and keep your eyes closed and do a DEILD, if you have autosnooze (like Alarm Clock Buddy Pro for I-Phone). Such multiple alarms make sense only in the pursuit of DEILDs in my eyes.