anyone else do not need a clock to wake up 5-6 hours later?

**dimensiongod** · 03-27-2008 06:15 PM

I'm curious about this phenomenon. since I've decided to actively pursue LDs and practicing WILDS, every night I seem to wake up around 4-5 hours after I initially went to bed without the use of an alarm clock. Of course, this is perfect for me, since my wife would stick a knife in my back if my alarm clock went off around 3-4 AM

**RockNRoller123** · 03-27-2008 06:22 PM

Yep, I done it everyday since I was like 9.
(I only discovered LD's 3 months ago.)

**Through the Looking Glass** · 03-28-2008 03:07 AM

I don't naturally wake up in the middle of the night but can easily do it with autosuggestion. Just saying to myself I'm going to wake up in 5 hours to do WBTB. But I don't have to pound it in to my head over and over like a MILD mantra until you fall asleep. I just think, I want to WBTB and I do, usually perfectly 5 hours after I fell asleep.

**Sulukra** · 03-28-2008 03:31 AM

Yeah, it amazes me how well autosuggestion works.

I just have to say to myself once or twice that I'm going to wake up in five hours, and I will wake up in five hours.

**a.nomad** · 03-28-2008 05:58 AM

yes, the same process of auto-suggestion works for me in waking up in a specified amount of time, but only from once I fall asleep. If I would say something like, I want to wake up at 5 AM, what would happen is that I'd wake up in 5 hours from the time I went to sleep, so if I fell asleep sleep at 2, and repeated the before stated suggestion, I'd awaken at 6 instead of 5.

Only duration counts, time is irrelevant.

**Dreamworld** · 03-28-2008 07:46 AM

I wake up every day at 5:30, when I regualry wake up to go to school. I guess its your sub-con giving you this convinence.

**warock** · 03-28-2008 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Sulukra

Yeah, it amazes me how well autosuggestion works.

I just have to say to myself once or twice that I'm going to wake up in five hours, and I will wake up in five hours.

Sweet...
defiantly trying this tonight, i always need an alarm clock

**Patrick** · 03-28-2008 11:08 PM

Just the inner clock, I guess. I automatically wake up at 6 every weekday morning, but EXACTLY quarter to nine every weekend morning. Pretty random.

**dorpis** · 03-29-2008 05:41 PM

It's weird, I autosuggest that I wake up early, but when I don't really care, I just nonchalantly think that I'm going to wake up early, I do! But when I really concentrate, it doesn't!