Thread: Motivation for a WBTB?

Three different alarms? Or maybe a second alarm farther from your bed? Or maybe some notes from your pastself beside your phone? Or all these things together? I have no better adivice.

I choose all three! ^_^ ....not sure if I have 3 alarms though :S I'll have a look, thankyou for your advice

Get a philips wakeup lamp alarm
Theres a huge lamp in the alarm that will turn on when ur alarm goes off. And put ur laptop next to bed.

Thats what i do ^^

What I do, is place my alarm a good distance from my bed, that way I have to move to turn it off. That way, I'm not lying in bed thinking if I should attempt a WBTB or not, since I'm already up I think I may as well do it since I've already left the bed, haha.

And whenever my dog is in the room, and the alarm wakes her up, she'll keep me up anyway, haha.

Put my laptop next to my bed? I fear a bright screen would wake me up too much :S I think the main one I'll try is my alarm on the other side of my room

Drink water before bed and everytime you get up to restroom. One of those time you get up will be at your desired WBTB time, or close enough to it. This is excellent technique also when you want to remember your dreams from early part of your sleep. Happy dreams

wake yourself up with an internal clock. You will be much more awake much quicker. You will be able to think clearer as well. This also seems to help me fall back to sleep for my WBTBs since I wasn't jarred awake by an annoying alarm.

If you have trouble I can teach how to wake up whenever.

I tried the alarm clock distance and the water drinking thing last night, both got me out of bed like a charm. No dreams recalled from it though

@Brandonboss - Whats your secret at teaching yourself to wake up after every dream?

No secret. I actually don't know how I figured it out, but one of my LD friends also knew how to do it.

Anyways, I think you have to put using mantras on hold for a week or two.
You need to go to sleep thinking about the time you want to wake up. If you don't want it to be in the middle of the night then I suggest choosing a time about 10 minutes before you wake up. So go to sleep while thinking 6 O'clock, over and over again. It should work after about a week. If you can make it happen a few times in a row then you should try a different time. I would try this in the middle of the night. If you wake yourself up like this it is easier to fall asleep, so do not worry about it too much. Use it as a way to DJ more. After being able to choose different times you should be able to just think 6 O'Clock once and wake up exactly then. It is actually freaky how exactly it is.

Thats incredible! I am def going to try this! Are you able to wake yourself up after every dream as well?

Yeah, but I normally find the first dream unsatisfactory and boring, so I normally wake up after the second.

If the dream is too boring I can't get myself to actually write it down.

haha i feel you there, i tried what you said last night and i remember waking up but i think just went back to bed lol, i am going to work on it...

Just make yourself stand up. That in itself will make you more awake/motivated. If im feeling really tired and nothing is working to get me up...I have a mini dance party with myself. xD.

ill def try one of these ideas! Im just limited sometimes because my roommate wakes up fairly easily

Mancon....that...is a brilliant idea xD

@nighthawk
Did you try again?

Yepp! I was in a dream and towards the end somehow i just knew to open my eyes at exactly 7:00 a.m. approximately 5 hours from when i went to bed. I dont know if it was just luck that i did that but i will try again tonight to see if i can obtain the said results. Thanks for the advice it seems to be working so far. I then tried to WBTB/WILD, but i had alot of difficulty falling asleep for some reason... i think i just need to work on relaxing a little more. But even though i didnt become lucid, i still remembered both dreams that i woke up from which is great progress for me.

I forgot to say side effects. I cab easily get back to sleep if it is in the middle of the night. I have troubles going back to sleep if I don't really need any more sleep.

That is why I said to wake up five minutes before you normally do at first.

I woke up about 4 hours and 45 minutes after i went to bed because i didnt fall asleep until 2:25 so i figured i would be good to fall back asleep right away, maybe i just woke myself up too much. lol I'm going to work on it, at least i got myself to wake up. I consider it progess.