It's been somewhat more than 12 hours since my last post. Lol.
Updates:
-Using water to try and wake up in the middle of the night usually worked fine, however my two issues with it were just that it didn't always work for me (sometimes even when I drank a ton of water) and even then I would only really wake up once during the night.
-So what I've been doing is kind of what I mentioned earlier, using an alarm. A lot of people have said that an alarm is a dream killer, but my alarm is just my cell phone and I actually just keep it charging in bed with me, so I don't have much trouble with inhibiting dream recall. I even have it set to require me to do arithmetic for the alarm to turn off, and I still feel like it doesn't give me much trouble with recall.
-I use this voice recording app for my cell phone, which makes things even easier. So I don't ever have to even get out of bed or move much at all to turn off my alarm and record my dream.
-I used to have trouble getting back to sleep with WBTB or things, but now I've gotten the hang of things. I used to think too much about my day while going to sleep, now I just kind of meditate while lying there. Helps a ton. I used to like...set an alarm for 3am, and then not be able to go to sleep until 6.
-So my dream recall has gotten pretty good with the aid of my cell phone, though if I were doing all of this 10 years ago I would be pretty hopeless, which is probably...not so good.
-I've been attempting WBTBs maybe 3 times a week for the past 3 weeks, but I haven't had much success. I will wholly admit that I have really just been going through the motions with WBTBs: I've been getting up for a bit in the middle of the night, but I've hardly been doing any intentionality, or reality tests at all during the day.
One other issue I'm (going to start) having is that of school. I mentioned above that I use that Steve Pavlina alarm clock method thing to get out of bed easily in the morning. That might get kind of confused with the alarms I use to wake up during the night. It hasn't been an issue for the past month and a half because I was on winter break for a while and the first few weeks of the semester are never a big deal, but I'm going to definitely have to start getting back on track with waking up early in the morning.
I feel like it sounds somewhat ridiculous to try and have two different alarms conditioned to do different things, but...hopefully it works out well. We'll see.
For the past two nights though, my cell phone has been randomly shutting down in the middle of the night and not playing alarms. I wake up in the morning, and the phone is just off. And when I turn it on, it shows that none of the alarms were triggered. So...I'll try to figure that out today.
I think I'll keep doing WBTBs on weekends, but it's probably going to stop being practical on weekdays as much. What would you guys recommend I do for now? MILD?
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