False Awakening Through Expectation (FATE)

[Astaroth]

A technique from the Daniel Love's book 'Are You Dreaming?' which seemed interesting. 1. Retire to bed. Before retiring to bed as normal, set your standard alarm clock to wake you after a minimum of five hours sleep. Also, set your alarm app to give random alarms for a 90-minute period, starting shortly after the time you have set your standard alarm clock to wake you. Place both of your alarms some distance from your bed, enough so that you have to leave your bed to switch them off, but not so far that they will be ineffective at waking you. Also, be sure that any clocks or devices clearly showing the time in your bedroom are covered, so you are unable to judge the time simply by looking around your room. 2. Wake at the preset time. Once awakened by your standard alarm, get out of bed walk, over to where you havepl aced your alarms and switch off your standard alarm, making sure its face is now covered so you cannot red the time. Pay careful attention to everything you do as you walk over to the alarm, how it feels, the lighting your, bodily feelings. 3. Perform the nose pinch reality test. Once your primary alarm clock is switched off, and its face covered, making it impossible to red the time, slowly and carefully perform the nose pinch reality test. Once you havce firmly established that you are awake and not dreaming, return to bed. 4. Visualise the reality test whilst returning to sleep. Whilst you return to sleep, run over in your mind the process you have just performed, Imagine how it felt to walk over the alarm clock, and imagine yourself performing the nose pinch reality test but discovering you can breathe, that you are indeed dreaming. Remind yourself also that soon you will be awoken by a random alarm and will be requiered to perform the same test. 5. Awaken to the random alarm. During some point during the next 90 minutes, you'll be awoken by the first of an unknown number of random alarms. When this occurs, get out of bed, walk over the alarm (paying attention to your environment and how you feel), dismiss the alarm if requiered by your app, then once again thoroughly and carefully perform the nose pinch reality test. If you establish that you're awake, return to bed. 6. Repeat tasks 4 and 5. Continue to perform tasks 4 and 5 until you achieve lucidity or wake for the day.