Thread: Anyone else struggle to get up for WBTBs?

Before I started trying to Lucid I used to have more trouble falling asleep but all the wbtb and intention setting have helped me learn to fall asleep more easily. I do sometimes get insomnia from piles of supplements tho

But since I like to wake after every cycle I include in my mantra 'I will wake after my dreams' and also drink lots of water on each awakening.

I have recently begun to practice sleep disruption on a night where I never get much sleep anyway (wed night I get home like 9pm have to be up at 5am). On this night I set an alarm for 9pm and 10pm but am almost always awake when they go off. I reset them for 11 and 12, usually I am asleep by 12 and often by 11. These alarms wake me from deep sleep, each time I set alarms for next hours 1am 2am, but usually I begin to wake up just a few minutes before every hour (when the alarm would have gone off), and my sleep cycle adjusts to be awake for less than 5 min, then asleep for like 50 min then wake up before alarm, (journal) wait for alarm then reset. I often set the alarm for the last time at 3:00am and sometimes have a lucid at like 4:40 or so (because my brain is staying in light sleep and is afraid to go into deep sleep, having an active mind and usual wake up time cause me to be more likely to trigger)

On other nights and this one falling asleep and waking after dreams becomes more automatic. (plus I get lots of experience falling asleep, and journaling a pile of dreams).

I think the fact that I know an alarm is going to wake me soon helps me to actually fall asleep, If I am just laying in bed with an alarm at 5:12 in the the morning and its is many hours away sometimes I can't get to sleep.