Thread: I H8 Reality's VILD Technique

Originally Posted by Chelita

This sounds like a great idea. The only problem for me is that I rarely have those conscious "brief awakenings," which I think might be pauses in your sleep cycle, which repeats itself like 4 times a night. I mean, I'm sure I have them, but I never wake up enough to have a conscious thought (or at least I don't remember).

I put my mobile phone on vibrate in my sock under the arch of my foot in bed.
I set it for 4.30am. 6am and 7.30am.
I wake every time and not disturbingly either. Nice and calm.

Originally Posted by DreamChaser

I put my mobile phone on vibrate in my sock under the arch of my foot in bed.
I set it for 4.30am. 6am and 7.30am.
I wake every time and not disturbingly either. Nice and calm.

Ok, that's an idea I'd never heard before.. your cell in your sock! Pretty clever!

Originally Posted by Clairity

Ok, that's an idea I'd never heard before.. your cell in your sock! Pretty clever!

Its an old phone and has multiple alarm times to programme.
Also doesn't wake up my wife anymore with an alarm.
Now have to work out a way to record the dreams without waking her up with a light.

Originally Posted by DreamChaser

Now have to work out a way to record the dreams without waking her up with a light.

So I don't disturb my husband, I keep a small memo pad open with a pen clipped to its spiral next to my pillow. When I wake up from dream, I don't turn on the lights, nor open my eyes.. I just reach for the pad and start writing using my left thumb as a place marker (since I write with my right hand). It's not the NEATEST way to do it but I can usually decipher what I wrote when I finally do get up.

They also have those pens whose tips light up.. but I find my recall is better if I don't open my eyes.

maybe I forgot to emphasize this but, when you awaken during the night you should be really tired.

for example you know when your mom wakes you up in the morning and yells "John wake up its time to go to school!" and you know how you barely wake up and just open your eyes and just ignore her. You probably dont realize it but you re-enter your dream in less than 10 seconds.

What you gotta do is wake up during a brief awakening and make sure your tired (and dont think a lot) then start imagining what i mentioned in the beginning of this thread

Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

maybe I forgot to emphasize this but, when you awaken during the night you should be really tired.

for example you know when your mom wakes you up in the morning and yells "John wake up its time to go to school!" and you know how you barely wake up and just open your eyes and just ignore her. You probably dont realize it but you re-enter your dream in less than 10 seconds.

What you gotta do is wake up during a brief awakening and make sure your tired (and dont think a lot) then start imagining what i mentioned in the beginning of this thread

I think this is my problem. I wake up naturally in the middle of the night, but I'm not really sleepy when I do so. I fall back asleep alright, but I'm not groggy or anything like if I have to wake up for work or class.

Tonight, I'm gonna try waking up a lot later, like after 6 hours. Hopefully, this will work.

Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

maybe I forgot to emphasize this but, when you awaken during the night you should be really tired.

for example you know when your mom wakes you up in the morning and yells "John wake up its time to go to school!" and you know how you barely wake up and just open your eyes and just ignore her. You probably dont realize it but you re-enter your dream in less than 10 seconds.

What you gotta do is wake up during a brief awakening and make sure your tired (and dont think a lot) then start imagining what i mentioned in the beginning of this thread

I tried this last night, and I was really tired when i woke up during the brief awakening. I managed to have 3 Lucid Dreams last night.

Thanks

This method worked for me again this morning, the exact same way! This is an excellent sign, as I've never tried a method that worked 2 days in a row.

Originally Posted by DreamChaser

Its an old phone and has multiple alarm times to programme.
Also doesn't wake up my wife anymore with an alarm.
Now have to work out a way to record the dreams without waking her up with a light.

Just leave a piece of paper that you can easily locate, along with a pencil or pen. And try t write a summary of your dream, when you wake up in the morning (assuming you have a normal sleep) read it and "translate" that to you dream journal. Or try to write it up in the cellphone, check if your cellphone has a Notes feature.

I will try again, since I didn't go to sleep yesterday XD

Originally Posted by DreamChaser

I put my mobile phone on vibrate in my sock under the arch of my foot in bed.
I set it for 4.30am. 6am and 7.30am.
I wake every time and not disturbingly either. Nice and calm.

A bit uncomfy ... no ?

Originally Posted by Selmuir

A bit uncomfy ... no ?

This old phone was quite smooth and rounded around the edges and I wore big socks.
I only needed to do it for a week and I found on the weekend when I didn't put the phone in my sock I was waking up at the times myself.

Soon I was waking autoatically at the end of every dream.
I think I trained my body into getting used to waking in early hours.

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ha.. I do something very similar.. I put velcro on a glove and did the same to my cell phone.. you get the picture..