Thread: Need a noise free way to practice finding my REM cycle, and getting up at specific points at night.

At the moment I'm using the affirmation, "I'm wake up after my next dream, play dead and count to five."

I'm using that because I want to experiment with Michael Raduga's techniques in the long term, but at the moment I'm just using it to up my recall a bit. I don't know if the counting to five bit makes a difference but it makes me more certain that I've done it properly and I reason that in the future I'll be able to "insert" affirmations/actions into the space where the count to five was. I think it's important to review your attempts in the morning. For example, last night I managed to reach the count of five without moving (or opening eyes) on two attempts, but on the next attempt I opened my eyes when I woke (but quickly realised, then closed them, and still did the playing dead and the counting to five).

I've got a cheap mobile phone - probably the cheapest in the shop (that's me!) - that has an option to switch on only when the alarm (vibrate) goes off. I can let you know what mobile I've got. I found a reasonably safe way to make it vibrate without waking my wife - I tape it to the sole of my foot. I reasoned this is the best place because it's rare for the sole of the foot to be actually against the bed; thus I'm the only one to hear the vibrate. (I also tape the end that vibrates fairly tight against my foot so it wakes me quickly).