Quote Originally Posted by TheCosmicOctopus View Post
I think the question was asked earlier but I'm not sure it got an answer.

Would setting an alarm ruin the depth of sleep needed for this technique? What are other ways to be sure you wake up during your little 'REM breaks' during the night?
The whole idea of the brief awakening is too reach the point where your on a fine balance between awake and asleep.

If you can reach that point with an alarm clock which Im very sure you can(never really tried) you can avoid the brief awakening and just use an alarm clock.

Keep in mind the rule that you should do this after 6 hours of sleep still applies, because if you do this before 6 hours of sleep I can almost guarantee that you will fail