Thread: How can i Naturally Wake?

That's rough, I also find that I only naturally wake occassionally through the night, if at all. Do you have a watch alarm? Say one that goes for 30 seconds and then stops so it doesn't bring you to total awareness, but enough to perform an induction technique? I know it's not exactly natural, but it may help you to wake. If you are against this idea, I would reccomend imagining yourself waking up. this is just my bit, but I would say, lay in bed, look at the clcok, and think of the approximate time you want to wake, and tell yourself you will wake then. This seems to work for me if I want to wake, within a half hour or so...I would try less "rough" alarms, perhaps you can sleep with headphones in on your mp3 player, and pre-record a gentle "song" where you or anyone says in a quite voice "Time to wake"..."time to lucid dream", you can try yourself, but a subtle voice telling you to wake or a quiet alarm may be of service to you. If you are keen on doing it naturally, if you beleive you can do it, I am sure you can. Again , lay there and imagine waking, there's no question it can be done

However I do reccomend more quiet alarms...Good luck mate

I've heard people suggest drinking a lot of water before bed so you have to get up to use the bathroom...

Thanks guys for the replies!!

bro, i think that a quieter alarm would not work for me, i tried my mp3 but my headphones always fall out when sleeping so i'm not sure if it would work, but i think your right about a calmer wake up approach, i will experiment and see what works best, thankyou!

Mes, i will try that tonight since it seems most sucessful for me hopefully, but sometimes i will sleep so deeply that i wake up and literally burst into the bathroom regardless to who is in there in the morning and fill the toilet to the brim haha! Thanks for the advice guys though, i will try the water one tonight and bro i will maybe try using tape to stick my headphones to my ears

1000 posts!!!!! :p I would congratulate you if I weren't so jealous!! Haha.

I saw it nearing 1000 so i decided to just get to about 1000 tonight, i wouldn't see it as a race, but you make it so competative Mes hehe, mind you i will be away from DV for two weeks, unless i can build a computer whilst in america, oh boy, i'll come back and you'll have more posts than Seeker lol, ah well. But at least i'm posting decent stuff instead of "Yeah" or "I agree" or "WTF man?!?!"

Wow this is off topic a bit, erm, yeah, i will drink plenty of water

i find if i tell myself to wake at a certain time 70 % of the time i will wake up around then.

maybe thats just me

I just woke now, i tried to WILD without the alarm but failed because my mum kept disturbing me, so i gave up, i woke up at about 10 instead of 11 which was unusual for me, i suppose i'm doing ok for now, i will keep trying at both, i really needed the toilet this morning however!

this is on the topic of alarms but if you have a mobile fone...set a few reminders for when you want to wake up..put your fone on vibrate and slip it into your pillow case.

wakes you up real good

Well my phones vibrate function is screwed, i would try it but i am quite a heavy sleeper so i couldn't imagine something like that waking me, i need something that has enough to wake me but not wake me too much like an alarm clock. It my heavy sleeping that does it.

I've been struggling with the same problem.

I've been trying some things out and I'll let you know if anything works for me.

Hmmm. I used to have this same problem. An alarm clock would wake up the rest of my family so I practiced autosuggestion. I tell myself to wake up after having a dream repeatedly before going to sleep. Next thing you know, I'm awake. This is great too, because when you wake up, you're always in your REM stages or else you wouldn't have awaken. You need to be in REM to have dreams so...well you know what I mean. Once you get this perfected, you'll wake up every single night after having a dream. It's pretty awesome. Give it a try! And good luck with your dreams!

I suggest you get a alarm clock with a CD player function with it. My method would be to make a CD that starts out with soft songs and then songs that gradually are louder etc.

This way it slowly builds up to a point that you might wake up instead of a loud noise right off the bat that may wake you up to much.

Have you tried using an alarm clock as sort of "training wheels", slowly weening yourself off until you awaken at the same time every day? Ex: Use an alarm clock to wake at 7:00am every morning for a week, not performing any LD induction methods. (well, at least WBTB and MILD and WILD.) Then, after that week, try not using an alarm and see if you still wake up close to 7:00am. (or whenever you set your alarm.)

I've tried this, and I've managed to have some success. However, my schedule is so messed up right now I'm rarely able to set my alarm for the same time every day! Maybe you could have better luck with it?