Are Radio Alarm Clocks bad for Lucid Dreaming?

**Merro** · 11-21-2011 08:53 AM

I have a radio alarm clock and I was wondering if its bad for me to use it for waking me up in the mornings, or using it for WBTB, etc. Should I get another one or keep this one? It has another buzzer noise with it as well but it doesn't wake me up. Because it doesn't have a setting to turn up the beeping noise. Last time i had a lucid the radio went off and it got me out of it fast. So would it be a bad idea to have it on? Should I buy another one with out the alarm? Or just keep it?

**FancyRat** · 11-21-2011 09:11 AM

If you use an alarm for WBTB, there is always a chance it will just wake you from a LD. If you can become aware of the times you wake up naturally in the night then of course this isn't a problem, plus it's easier to recall your dreams when you wake up naturally instead of being jarred awake by an alarm. I don't see why it being a radio would make a difference except if you want one that turns off by itself so you don't have to move if you want to do DEILD or something.

**Matte87** · 11-21-2011 07:05 PM

You should get an alarm clock that can wake you up properly when it's time to LD. Then just shut it off and don't turn it on again unless you have to wake up at a specific time. If you can sleep for as long as you want to, then get some earplugs and make sure nothing can disturb you

That's what I do.

**Merro** · 11-21-2011 09:34 PM

Thanks for the advice guys, And Matte87 nice hearing from you again.

**Evolventity** · 11-22-2011 02:23 PM

I like using radio alarms. They can induce a lucid dream in which I can hear the radio playing inside of my dream. Do whatever your ears like, I suppose. As for alarms in general, I read from a book about Shamanism that they are bad in a spiritual sense because they jolt you back to the waking world unlike waking up instinctively.