Hey. I just read a post over at lucidpedia about a guy who set his cellphone to play a clip of him saying "I am dreaming!" in the middle of the night at 5 minute intervals. This seems like it will work 100% of the time if you have the luxury of doing that. It works on the same principle of NovaDreamer with one MAJOR difference - in dreams, the lights are warped by your mind to be other signs, like sirens, flood lights, etc. Your brain might not pick up those signs as your cue all the time. However, if you could hear the sound (which you can in the dream), then once you hear it (it would make sense that sounds are much less distorted in dreams than lights) you will automatically realize your dreaming, because its telling you you are!
Now heres why this technique wont work for me and others, and my modifications. One, my cell phone cant play back sounds I record as an alarm (hell, i dont even know if I have a recorder). Two, if anyone in my house heres that mp3 of me saying it, they will think I'm crazy and it wont be pretty (theyre die hard christians). And finally, you might play the mp3 at the wrong time when your not in a REM cycle if you just set your phone to ring in the middle of the night. SO, here is my plan:
1)Buy wireless headphones. You can find ones from 50-100$ in stores like circuit city or ebay/amazon. Hook these up to your computer and make sure you can hear sounds from where your sleeping (in other words make sure the signal can reach). Be sure to take any cordless phones out of the room to minimize interference.
2)Create an mp3 on your PC of you saying "Im dreaming", and loop it for five minutes. There are plenty of easy and free tools that can do this, just use google. When the final tutorial comes out (after I have bought the headphones and tested it) I will recommend my favorite one.
3)Now, see what time you normally go to sleep. Say its 12, then you are going to want the sounds to play in one of your later REM cycles, six hours after you fall asleep (or 7.5 if you have the time), so you will want it to play at 6:00 AM.
4)Now your going to schedule a task telling your computer to play the sound at 6 am. Go to start, then run, and type in cmd. then you will use the command:
Code:
at 06:00 C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Documents\dreaming.mp3
change the path to the full path to your mp3. This will open up the mp3 in your default mp3 player at 6 am 
5)If you find that one time isnt enough, instead of making the mp3 longer, you can schedule more tasks, at 6:05, 6:10, etc. Fool around and find the perfect time for you.
So, if anyone has wireless speakers try this method and see if it works well, the theory seems great and i believe it should work like a charm. It seems like a better alternative to pricey things like RemDreamer and NovaDreamer, which don't work all the time in the first place, because, as I said, their cues are easily ignorable. However, sound isnt 
One final note: Make sure you dont make the volume too high or you might actually wake yourself up. Just adjust your system volume before you go to sleep to a volume where you can hear it clearly but its not blasting - again, just fool around and you will get the perfect setting for you.
Some stupid things I realize slower people may ask 
1)YES, you do have to leave your computer on all night. Scheduled tasks dont magically turn your PC on 
2)yes, you have to sleep with the headphones one, not leave them by your bed and hope you hear them. When I sleep with my iPod I find the headphones are still on in the morning, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep them on. (If you have a problem, duct tape can help )
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