Thread: Recognising incorporated sounds

Originally Posted by Dying Dignity

I use a radio alarm to get up for WBTB and in the morning, I can't be doing with other people's voices waking me up so I just put it to the white noise thing.

I think having it turn on at ungodly hours to wake up for WBTB has made my body start ignoring it and just incorporate it into my dream now, I realised that this could be kind of like the REMdreamer in the way that it gives you a signal that you are dreaming via lights, these are usually made into something inside the dream, such as a police car with its sirens on, but with white noise instead.

How could I start recognising that hearing this noise inside of my dreams means that I am dreaming for successful EILDs? I did look at the EILD tutorial but it didn't really say how.

One way is to look out for any sound that resembles your alarm in waking life. The minute you hear any sound that resembles it..do an RC. It would help if you could change the alarm sound to one that is more recognizable in real life. Hope this helps.

IMJ

Ah ok, so if I could just go turn it on as many times as I want throughout the day, do a reality check and when it comes on in my dream I should do a reality check and become lucid?

You can try that too to 'fix' the sound to the clock but what may happen is this..You get so used to the sound because the subconcious would know where the sound is coming from after doing so many checks with the clock it ignores it as the alarm and continues dreaming. This has happened to me using a light cue...I knew it was the light and waited for the light to stop and then continued dreaming. I theorized that this is caused by not being concious in the first place, it's instinctive. Remembering to RC or do any task as a direct response to a known 'specific' cue requires waking conciousness so it may work when you do have substantial waking conciousness say near morning in the dream and actively recognize the sound as the alarm and then you will react to it as planned. But IMO Y narrow it to being the clock alarm....it could be anything with that sound in the dream.

IMJ