I just PM'd sivsason who seems to have mastered alarm-DEILD and asked him how long it took to get really good at it, he mentioned it took *3 years* of attempts before it became really consistent for him, and that before that he was already very proficient at DILD. So as always in this discipline, it pays to take the long view. You also have to be someone for whom falling back to sleep is quick/easy, which is probably why late morning DEILD is so rare for me, because I have to be in a perfect state where I'm dozing back to sleep easily.