Thread: New method, works for me...

Originally Posted by Siotheun

I think It's new anyway...

Anyway, I should Introduce myself, I'm Sio. I've been lurking around these forums for the better part of a year trying to get a LD, with almost no luck.

I gave, MILDS, WILDS and WBTB each a few months of try's, I could just never get it to work. Even when I reality checked often, and wrote down my dreams, I would invariably fail to reality check while dreaming, and hence never LD'd.

Well.... Last week, I finally moved my computer up from my basement to my bedroom. This gave me an idea.... All my previous attempts had failed because I failed to realize that I was dreaming when I was dreaming. Their was simply nothing to tip me off. So...... I set up a alarm on my computer to play a fairly short, distinct beep once every half hour. It starts at 5:00 PM, and continues until 8:00 AM. Everytime I hear it, I simply stop, do a quick reality check and resume what I was doing. Theory being, you don't really have to remember to RC every so often, that's what the beep is for. And If you hear it while your dreaming, that should do the trick.

I realize this is somewhat similar to the commercially available Head thing that you wear when you sleep and can help give you LD's. This method Has the Following Pros/Cons.

Pro:
Worked on my first day
You actually know what your listening for. (since you'll be hearing it for hours before you go to bed)
No clunky headpiece.
Inexpensive

Cons:
Will disturb anyone else in the room
Hit or miss as to whether you get the sound during a dream.



The sound I used...
http://www.zetalink.biz/zwaves/h415.wav

The Alarm Program I used...
http://www.tarsoft.com/

This is my second day trying this, the first day I tried it I (last night) I had my first LD in as long as I can remember. It was highly personal so I won't recite it.

Anyways.... Best of luck everyone.

Hi, yeah what U did was to prime the mind to look out for the dreamsign(the sound) IRL and do an RC, sort of like a dream rehearsal method that I used which involved non-working lights. About that problem about waking everybody up....U could connect headphones or put the speakers nearer Ur bed?.

IMJ

Siotheun, great first post.. sharing a method you're trying!

Welcome to Dream Views and please let us know if this method continues to work for you!

Hey there,

That should do the trick. I think Laberge suggested something similar with a wristwatch that beeps every hours.

The one thing I wonder about though is, how long does it work? The danger would seem to be that after a while you get so used to the little sound you start paying it little further attention. So be sure to keep giving the little sound your full conscious attention as much as you can

-Redrivertears-

Originally Posted by Siotheun

Inexpensive

Not really, as a computer uses much energy. Why not just burn it on a CD and play it in repeat mode instead?

how do you get it to beep every half hour? I can only see every hour.

If you used the audio to create an MP3 which consisted of nothing but silence, and the occasional queue for a RC, you could leave it running on an iPod or PSP etc. on a loop all through the night.

Use a cell phone on silent and put it on intermittent vibrate.
Set the alarms for 5am, 5.30am and so on.
Put it in your sock like I do or up your sleeve.

I remember seeing a method similiar to this a while back using a chirping program that would be set to go off every so often. Although the links you included should pefrom basically the same thing however it's using newer stuff so I think it is worth a go and would help a lot of people.

Originally Posted by ouija

If you used the audio to create an MP3 which consisted of nothing but silence, and the occasional queue for a RC, you could leave it running on an iPod or PSP etc. on a loop all through the night.

I put the playlist on from the same spot every night before bed..

Same consept.. same result.. I can even tell how long I sleep, and when I wake up, by the song...

Welcome, Siotheun.

I agree with that being a nice first post. I hope that method keeps working for you. I've thought about doing that as well but never got off my lazy butt and did it. I'd like to make a CD with about four long tracks and have the beginning of each track some sort of sound that I could RC off of (and have the rest of the track blank). Then set it to repeat play and dream away.

It sounds like you're off to a great start. Keep up the excellent work