Thread: Snooze Alarm Clock Technique

Originally Posted by Graphik

I originally posted this in another forum, but thought it perhaps applied better here.

I first came across this website a month or two ago, worked on lucid dreaming for a bit, got nowhere and forgot about it.

Last night I stayed out late and was quite tired. I ought to have left somewhere this morning, but instead I kept hitting snooze and making excuses to myself for doing so until I finally shut off the alarm clock, deciding enough was enough and I was staying in bed.

Snoozing the alarm clock had an interesting effect, though. I was trying to catch as much sleep as I could between snoozes, and this caused me to think to myself 'am I asleep yet?' every time. Well, after I shut off the alarm I fell asleep, dreamed for a bit and asked myself the same question, and the answer was of course positive.

I flew about a bustling city (that was sort of the holy grail of lucid dreaming I envisioned when I decided to try it), finally solved the posture problem that was inhibiting my martial art ability (yes, even in real life), generally explored the world of my own imagination a bit, engaged in some unprintable activity, etc.

Around the time I began with the unprintable activity, I gradually became aware of some weight on my chest. I opened my eyes to find that my youngest sister (5 years old) had come in my room and curled up with me in bed. On the one hand it was sweet, on the other she had interrupted my lucid dream. I sent her out, fell asleep again and dreamed, though not lucidly.

When I woke up, I realized my sister had not come into the room at all, I had simply dreamed she had.

The main reason I post this is the alarm clock bit. I seem to have found a shortcut that the monks of Tibet didn't have access to. For the uninformed, those monks asked themselves 'Am I dreaming?' twenty-seven times a day. Six times (once every ten minutes) with a snooze-featured alarm clock seems to have done the trick for me.
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i just have one question for ya, how real did it feel?

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Originally Posted by pablo

i just have one question for ya, how real did it feel?
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Considering I was actually fooled and thought my sister had come into the room, quite real. During the lucid section I was able to identify certain things that were not visually accurate (I'm a graphic designer; I know my lighting to an extent that I haven't the brainpower to generate a world that stands up to my knowledge of it), but otherwise very real.

It just occurred to me that you may be asking entirely about the... unprintable stuff. The false awakening occurred right when the tactile-sensation-heavy part was about to begin. I suspect this is a result of the subconscious realization that I simply could not recreate such a thing to a believable degree -- too much information to process.

Are you saying you heard your alarm while still asleep or what? I mean Once i saw some lights from outside in a dream and they helped me become lucid but how would you regulate it using your alarm clock. (I've also wanted to do this so tjhis is why i ask you)

Originally Posted by bro

Are you saying you heard your alarm while still asleep or what? I mean Once i saw some lights from outside in a dream and they helped me become lucid but how would you regulate it using your alarm clock. (I've also wanted to do this so tjhis is why i ask you)
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No, I simply became accustomed to asking myself if I was asleep because of the continued attempts to fall asleep. I guess drifting in and out of sleep so often and so many times might have helped to blur the line a little, too.

Interresting. Only too bad your alarm clock will wake you up again perhaps maybe in the middle of a Lucid Dream.

But the main Idea behind it is you found something important that seemed to Focus your attention on the Question wether you were asleep yet constantly.

Somehow this could be recreated without an alarmclock. There must be a different way to create circumstances in which the Question ''Am I Dreaming yet?'' is very Urgent, important and constantly on your Mind.

Any thoughts on that?

This is interesting. Before I actually discovered lucid dreaming I would sometimes set my alarm for 4am and then I could quickly and easily push it forward 1 hour when it went off. So I'd be waking up 4am, 5am, 6am 7am. I did this because I knew I dreamt more in the early morning hours and if I woke up and fell asleep again. I never went lucid, but I usually had more dreams that way.

Even just hitting the snooze button 6 times in an hour (every ten minutes) sometimes produced more dreams than if I had just slept straight through.

I tend to slap the snooze at least 3-4 times and I've gone lucid in between. It's like really fast WBTB.