Thread: Forced Brief Awakening (FBA) Induction Technique - Early Testing

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Anyway, I'll have to think some more on what I can learn from the results. One thing is that toward the end, as I got distracted by some things, my induction rate fell substantially, despite, again, doing almost exactly the same things as before technique-wise. (the only thing I changed might have been a bit less strict adherence to the "keep it on whenever you're in your room" rule -- I started skipping occasionally, but I still did it most of the time)

I also made sure in the earlier times to not be doing anything explicit other than the technique, so as not to disrupt the results. But I guess, merely having more things on your mind puts a burden on the process, even when you had kept the technique constant, and as your only support for lucid-dreaming.

I'll continue to mess around with various approaches (including this one and FBA), but I'm ending the semi-formal recording phase and just falling back to "whenever I feel like it" mode. It was fun, and I think it did have an impact, just not as reliable a one as I was hoping for.

The highest induction rates I've had seem to have been with the FBA technique in my other thread. I will probably revisit that one next. [edit: Oh nvm, it's this thread. I've kind of been posting in the wrong thread, due to this being where I first mentioned my starting testing of RVPv2.]

The main reason: My family is moving to another house in a month or two, one where I have a larger and more separated room. So, it should be far enough away that I can use alarms without waking other people up. Which means I don't need to use sleep-headphones anymore, which was my main annoyance. (I didn't like turning it on and waiting for it to connect, and its sometimes making my tinnitus act up more due to the outside-sound obstruction -- it wasn't terrible, but it will be nicer to no longer need it)

So anyway, I'm ending testing on this for now, but I'll be back in a few weeks most likely to give the FBA technique another try. (this time without the need for headphones)