Shotgun Awakenings

[TaxiWalkit]

Hey everyone, I'm really excited to meet many of you but in the meantime, I have a crappy problem. I've been trying LD for about a week, and I've found that an extremely old trait of mine is destroying my ability to dream recall. I awake with a jarring start to ANY alarm, eyes snap open, the room gets sucked in, and I immediately shoot out for the alarm to turn it off and see the time. Think Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction awakening from his dream about Christopher Walkin Needless to say, I remember NOTHING about my dreams after this constant traumatic event of awakening. Is there a more kosher way to awaken one's self multiple times a night? Any help would be fantastic, thanks again everybody.

[Shift]

Maybe a different method of alarm? Ear plugs + a vibrating cell phone alarm? This usually happens to me when I use alarms, too. Try to be diligent during the night, you'll be having a bunch of dreams then too that you can record. Also, after being startled, try laying still to see if you can recall anything.

[l000needles]

Maybe sleep earlier so that your body naturally wakes up before the alarm? Also, doing affirmations like 'I am awake at X:XX AM' right before you sleep is supposed to work.

[oniman7]

Nice to meet you. Not a lot of people know it, but you wake up in between each dream. Sometimes you go right back to sleep, but sometimes you won't. What a lot of people do is drink a lot of water before they go to bed. Your body could easily hold it all night, but when you wake up in the middle of the night with a full bladder, you're going to want to get up and go to the bathroom. Get up, go to the bathroom, write in your dream journal, get some more water (depending on how late it is) and go back to bed. Otherwise, find a subtle alarm. Hunters sometimes use wrist watches with vibrating alarms so they don't disturb their pray. Try to find something like that.

[hisnameistyler]

Well, it would take some practise, but there ARE ways that you can train yourself to wake up WITHOUT an alarm clock. I do this frequently; if I know I have to wake up early the next day, I typically finding myself waking up BEFORE my alarm even goes off. But, seems kinda complicated to learn, right? I'm no expert at that, so I'm not going to pretend like I am. I say Shifts idea is probably the best idea; it's a very subtle way to wake up, instead of a loud alarm blaring in your ears.