With DEILD How do I wake up after my dreams and NOT move?

I want to do DEILD but its the waking up after dreams that frustrates me so any ideas what do you do????????

What I do is not drink water before I go to sleep, have that thirsty feeling, and then you can usually tell when you wake up after that.

I also have a question:

How do you just WAKE UP after a dream ends? I can't seem to carry this out or even remember when I woke up from my dreams in the first place. I've tried repeating my intentions but it just doesn't work.

I'm forced to used an alarm clock, but for that I have to move to shut it off. Or it just keeps going.


Any suggestions?

Autosuggestion works for me. I just visualise myself waking up and staying still, while repeating some sort of mantra, as I go to bed in the evening, and I usually manage to wake up a few times without moving.

Autosuggestion is the most direct way to wake up as a dream ends and to keep from moving. The more you do the autosuggestion the better it will work. I do it about a dozen times throughout the day, for a few minutes at least each time.

If that doesn't work, try an alarm clock. The first REM cycle starts about 90 min after you fall asleep. Here is a link to a good article on the sleep cycle. Try to time the alarm to ring near the middle or end of each REM cycle.

I just tell myself I'll wake up after each dream and remember it, then use x method to LD before I go to bed. It works very well for me, but not very well for others it seems. If you keep telling yourself to not move when you wake up, you will eventually not. Also, FYI, you wake up after every dream, but you just don't remember it.