Although I have had LDs in the past this is my first week of making an effort to have them more frequently. I set a few five second alarms that go off after 4-6 hrs of sleep. Sometimes they wake me up, sometimes no. When they do, I can easily recall the dream that I exited and sometimes even have a slight physical "feel" of them. The problem is, when I feel my body falling asleep, the sounds around me become blaring loud and they steal my concentration away from my dream. I struggle with this for maybe as much as a half hour before eventually my dreamscape dissappears and I fall asleep normaly.
Does this happen to anyone else? Should I pop in some earplugs? If this has happened to you also, does it eventually become less pronounced?