Quote Originally Posted by Zelzahim View Post
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.

Quote Originally Posted by dreamer94 View Post
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.