Thread: **CrazyInSane's WILD tutorial!!**

For people who are on Macs, theres a nice application that you can use for the custom alarm. Its called Apimac Timer (http://www.apimac.com/timer) and its basically an alarm clock that rings once (or twice, or up to 5 times, check in options).

Im gonna try this method this morning. I set Apimac Timer to ring as "Purr" 4 times. That seems to be the best option. The purrs are about 1 sec apart and are a soft but distinctive sound. Should work fine.

Awesome guide, looking very much forward to trying this. I will prolly have no difficulties what so ever in not moving. Im a natural sleeper

Thumbs up, thanks for the great idea

So I tried to do this, I went to sleep at 10:30pm, and I set my alarm at 3am. I woke up and I kinda panicked and opened my eyes and sat up. But then I just laid down and went into Sleep Paralysis.

I did not recall ANY dreams today

I am happy to report a lucid dream induced by this technique



My tips, learned over the last 3 nights of trying this technique-

1) Use multiple times to set off the alarm. I had three times keyed in last night, and only the final alarm (4:30am) induced a lucid dream post-sleep-paralysis.

2) Familiarize yourself with the sound of your alarm.

I used this- "I will wake up, keep my eyes closed, lay still, and enter a lucid dream when I hear this sound" - and would then play the alarm noise I used.

3) Make sure you alarm is not too loud, or too obnoxious. I used the sound of a cat meowing to wake me up the first two nights, but every time I heard it I would think it was my cat and it'd wake me up way too much.



Unfortunately I got very excited and fell out of it extremely quickly, so I'm not counting it as an LD worthy of putting in my sig or adding to my official count. But I am a VERY new LDer so you'd expect my lucids to be fleeting in the first place.


Good luck!

ok i have an idea how to help out with the 3 sec ring,ok,on ur cellphone you probably have the option "ring once" ,if you do,you should go and conposite something randomly that lasts like 3 sec,i'm gonna do that

btw,a great techinique to know,logical,simple and fits with the sleep pattern...

Originally Posted by konj

ok i have an idea how to help out with the 3 sec ring,ok,on ur cellphone you probably have the option "ring once" ,if you do,you should go and conposite something randomly that lasts like 3 sec,i'm gonna do that

btw,a great techinique to know,logical,simple and fits with the sleep pattern...

"composite something" I don't know what that means

I got lucid using this technique this morning!

Originally Posted by A dreamer168

"composite something" I don't know what that means

Compose something, as in, make your own track using a voice recorder on your phone or something similar.

you have an option in the cellphone to make your own music,my Cellp. is in serbian,so i don't know whats the name of the folder in english(extras maybe,and u have a program there compositor),but u can make it last like three notes,and it will last 3 sec etc

i believe this is what idid when i had my first LD
I will try this tonight and post my results in the morning

Ok,
ive tried this and when im paralyzed* i swallow my saliva (cant help it), when i do this its IMPOSSIBLE for me to WILD..

The closest i got was i focused on my 3rd eye and my vision turned white, which is when the swallowing thing happened.

any tips?

For a brief alarm, I would recommend the Invisible Clock. You can set it to beep or vibrate, and you can adjust the beep volume and the number of beeps from one to six. I've stopped doing middle-of-the-night alarms, but when I was doing that for a while, the Invisible Clock worked perfectly--it beeped three times, woke me up, and that was that.

Originally Posted by ProdigyRd

Ok,
ive tried this and when im paralyzed* i swallow my saliva (cant help it), when i do this its IMPOSSIBLE for me to WILD..

The closest i got was i focused on my 3rd eye and my vision turned white, which is when the swallowing thing happened.

any tips?

If swallowing really gives you problems (it doesn't for some people), then try sleeping on your side with your mouth slightly open. Any saliva accumulation will drip out onto your pillow. It's gross, but it works.

Well, CrazyInSane, I'm gonna quote you for truth on this, and try it tonight. Wish me luck! Whether or not it works, thanks for contributing a method that has clearly helped others to achieve their lucidity.

I'm having a really hard time waking up. So far I've attempted it two nights, but I simply don't wake up. I'm gonna use a louder alarm and get some more sleep.

I tried it last night and didn't LD or a dream, been a couple nights without dreams of any kind. It startled me and I shook awake, so I'm going to try it again tonight, now that I know what it's like.

I have a timer set on my mac that plays 5 high bell sounds for about 5 seconds. But i feel as if the 5 single bells that ring when the alarm goes off, will not be enough to wake me up. Do i need a constant noise like the sound file you provided that gets progressively louder, or can 5 constant high pitched bell sounds be enough on my computer to wake me up?

Thanks. I am going to try this tonight

Originally Posted by Zelzahim

Thanks for a great tutorial! I think this technique has great potential. Because when i elarnt it really well, you can say "Well, i cant do that in a LD tonight, since i need the sleep, take it tomorrow?", which would be impossible with such techniques as DILD.
But one question, i got a wristwatch with alarm. It goes "Bip bip, bip bip", but it goes on for about 13 seconds. Does it still work?

//Zelzahim

Well, from reading over the tutorial, and from trying this myself, 13 seconds is going to fully wake you up, assuming you wake up before the last 3-5 seconds of the alarm. If you think about it in terms of just sitting there with an alarm, 13 seconds is a very long alarm. Also, I don't think it would even be loud enough unless you have your hand up by your head when the alarm goes off. Is it a very loud alarm, one that you think would wake you up from it? If it does, I think it's too long of an alarm to do a CAN-WILD as described above.

Originally Posted by dreamer94

I have a timer set on my mac that plays 5 high bell sounds for about 5 seconds. But i feel as if the 5 single bells that ring when the alarm goes off, will not be enough to wake me up. Do i need a constant noise like the sound file you provided that gets progressively louder, or can 5 constant high pitched bell sounds be enough on my computer to wake me up?

Thanks. I am going to try this tonight

Either way should work fine for you - I tried it the other night myself with a constant, loud clip from a song that lasted for about 4 seconds before disappearing, which was plenty enough to wake me up and yet not long enough to keep me awake. Chances are, you're going to be awoken by the very first sound from the alarm, so if it gets progressively louder, or is just loud constantly, it could work either way.

If you're undecided and could go either way, I'm going to recommend you use the progressively increasing in volume version of the custom alarm, since I think that would get you up, yet not scare you awake like mine did, and you'll be able to get right back to sleep.

First night of trying this method and I don't think the alarm woke me up. I'm a heavy sleeper so I'll either have to turn it up or instead of having a 5 second alarm change it to 10 seconds.

Tried this last night. I told myself "I will NOT move when my alarm goes off", and went to sleep. When my 10 second alarm went off, I moved to shut it off. Although, when my normal alarm clock went off I woke with my eyes closed and my body perfectly still. If only it didn't have a duration of five minutes...

Also, I am using the "Auto-shutoff alarm clock" app for the iphone/ipod touch. Although it has to be plugged in (The application stays on all night), it does have a 10 second duration. As I saw in the other posts..it sounds like 10 seconds is fine unless your a light sleeper.

I'll try this method tonight; I'll tell you how it goes!

Ok, I've found a pretty good way to do this with an Ipod touch. I downloaded "BackGround App" (something like that) and "Auto-stop alarm clock" from Rock (jailbroken app store) and the app store. The Auto-stop alarm clock can be put on background using the app from Rock, and doesn't kill your battery. I have not gotten conscious enough from the beeps yet, but I'll keep trying

Hey friends,
So for anyone working at this technique I have made a custom Mp3 for it. It is iPod friendly if you have any of those apps or you could use it on your computer mac or pc.

heres whats on the track, it starts out fading in to the alarm (railroad alarm) it plays for a total of eight seconds and then fades out, then it plays silently for the rest of the time *about 70 minutes. This is so you can implement it on iPhone apps without having to use one that has auto stop. Personally i think the fading will be beneficial for this technique but i think there is personal touch involved in how loud you set your device to play it.
Here is a multiupload link, I am sorry that the file is some 60 odd mbs its only because the track lasts about 70 minutes. I did this somewhat quickly and it takes a long time to compile but in the near future i think i will make one that lasts 90 minutes(avg length of a dream cycle) so maybe you could put it on repeat and try it multiple times a night? just a thought

http://www.multiupload.com/P0JLO4RD58

Cheers,
Dave

EDIT: i recommend using the direct download from multiupload, no wait time and right now im getting 500kbps so it only takes ~2 mins to download.

Wow! I've been trying this wild for 5 days now and finally last night I got the closest I've ever been to an obe. My problem was with the alarm. I don't want my wife to wake up so I found an app for the iPhone (routine timer, $3) and finally fine tuned it to work great! U can set it to vibrate and to vibrate for as long as u need. Bought a jogging arm band for iPhone and strapped it to my ankle....problem solved. Wife doesn't wake up but I do. This app is well worth $3, since it is extremely customizable. So last night I set it to wake me at 6hrs and 7 hrs. The first alarm woke me, stayed still, heavy sinking feeling set in really quick and then vibrations came on very subtle and then got really strong. Tried to relax past vibrations but don't remember what happened after that. Also, while in vibrations, I heard lots of voices and rationalized them as a party going on next door ( at 2 am..?). I know now that they were the "voices of the universe" as they are often called by famous obers. I am sticking to this method because it fits best with my schedule and it finally gave me results!! Will post more as they come.

How do I prevent my computer to going in to "sleep mode"?

Originally Posted by drgreat

How do I prevent my computer to going in to "sleep mode"?

Change your power save settings to never turn off your monitor or harddisk.