Has anyone tried this method?

I read the other day that an old inventor (cannot remember which one) used to lucid dream in order to help with his inventions. The method he used was to put a penny on his forehead, so that when he finally enters sleep, the penny falls off and makes a noise resulting in a slight return of consciousness. Prior to reading this, there was one occasion where I was extremely tired and didn't want to fall asleep; so lying upright in my bed, I balanced a bottle of water on my head so that it would wake me back up if it fell. It worked - scaring the shit out of me in the process aha.

I'm very interested in trying this method, has anyone tried this previously?

Dalí did this for days at a time, only I think he held rocks which would clatter into pans below... He ended up inducing waking hallucinations, heh.

I wouldn't recommend you go to his extreme, as that'll have detrimental effects to your health (irritability, lethargy, inability to concentrate).

I've also heard this done with snooze buttons.

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Originally Posted by life705

I read the other day that an old inventor (cannot remember which one) used to lucid dream in order to help with his inventions. The method he used was to put a penny on his forehead, so that when he finally enters sleep, the penny falls off and makes a noise resulting in a slight return of consciousness. Prior to reading this, there was one occasion where I was extremely tired and didn't want to fall asleep; so lying upright in my bed, I balanced a bottle of water on my head so that it would wake me back up if it fell. It worked - scaring the shit out of me in the process aha.

I'm very interested in trying this method, has anyone tried this previously?

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What you did is to be so aware of the bottle that it maintained your conciousness I used this similar way with leaving a dim light on and watched the dream hover from the light on the table to the area of the window..happened twice in a row but for me that was very exahusting because it leaves the sleeper unable to fall into prper sleep.

IMJ