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[Yoink]

Wait, your alarm doesn't vibrate? What the heck kind of alarm do you have, then?
Just... get an alarm, make sure it vibrates, and stick it in your pants. Trust me, it works. I used to sleep through every alarm ever.

[Alev]

No, my problem is that I sleep straight through the alarm.

Using the internet, this site was found: http://onlineclock.net

Turn up your speakers all the way, I guess. Either that or get a new, louder alarm.

[Tawa]

My speakers on my computer are borked.

It's also a floor lower than my bedroom.

[Alev]

My speakers on my computer are borked.

It's also a floor lower than my bedroom.

Oh, I forgot that you can't have it in your room. Well, I can't think of anything else. Maybe get some chickens and keep them in your room.

[Tawa]

As before, I'll change my regular alarm clock after getting the time on it fixed, something I haven't done since the last power outage got it to be like 7 hours fast.

[ShadowHammer]

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Hrmm I've never had particularly interesting dreams...maybe I should try some of this stuff sometime.

Is having frequent dreams necesary for this? I only ever really recall a dream like twice a month, and the ones I do remember aren't very lively. Hallucinated once or twice when semi asleep, but then I always went full awake after 3 seconds.

I think most of us want to do this to become dream wizards.

Yeah, that's my objective as well.

My alarm failed to wake me up last night, but I woke up on my own about half an hour after it was supposed to go. It's possible that I forgot to turn it on. I had no lucid dreams.

Shadowhammer's log, day 3
I woke up, but I read/walked around for a much shorter time than was recommended, only about two minutes instead of five. I'm not sure why.

After I turned off the light, I lay down with my hands on my stomach, but I found myself to be very sleepy and unable to focus well. I attempted FILD, but moved several times (most of them without making a conscious decision to do so), and fell asleep within ~15 minutes of starting.

I had several dreams, including hiding behind a semi trailer truck with a bunch of classmates while being shot at; being at a swimming pool with a friend who decided to take my shoes, light them on fire (in the swimming pool), and then pull the fire alarm; and wearing a bandana with a knife sheath on the back. None of them were lucid.

Tonight I will ensure that I am fully awake before going back to bed, and I will double check that my alarm is actually on.

How do you fall asleep in 15 minutes? It usually takes at least two hours for me, which is annoying.

I also usually take hours to fall asleep, but since I started trying the lucid dreaming stuff, I've fallen asleep oddly quickly.

[Alev]

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Hrmm I've never had particularly interesting dreams...maybe I should try some of this stuff sometime.

Is having frequent dreams necesary for this? I only ever really recall a dream like twice a month, and the ones I do remember aren't very lively. Hallucinated once or twice when semi asleep, but then I always went full awake after 3 seconds.

I think most of us want to do this to become dream wizards.

Yeah, that's my objective as well.

My alarm failed to wake me up last night, but I woke up on my own about half an hour after it was supposed to go. It's possible that I forgot to turn it on. I had no lucid dreams.

Shadowhammer's log, day 3
I woke up, but I read/walked around for a much shorter time than was recommended, only about two minutes instead of five. I'm not sure why.

After I turned off the light, I lay down with my hands on my stomach, but I found myself to be very sleepy and unable to focus well. I attempted FILD, but moved several times (most of them without making a conscious decision to do so), and fell asleep within ~15 minutes of starting.

I had several dreams, including hiding behind a semi trailer truck with a bunch of classmates while being shot at; being at a swimming pool with a friend who decided to take my shoes, light them on fire (in the swimming pool), and then pull the fire alarm; and wearing a bandana with a knife sheath on the back. None of them were lucid.

Tonight I will ensure that I am fully awake before going back to bed, and I will double check that my alarm is actually on.

How do you fall asleep in 15 minutes? It usually takes at least two hours for me, which is annoying.

I also usually take hours to fall asleep, but since I started trying the lucid dreaming stuff, I've fallen asleep oddly quickly.

Mmm. I noticed the finger tapping while saying 'I am dreaming' helped me think of nothing else.

[martinuzz]

If you sleep through all alarms, just buy one that is so loud it will wake your neighbors, so they call the police on you for noise harassment. Police are quite proficient at waking you up.
Protip: car burglary alarms on a timer work well for this.

[Orange Wizard]

I was going to say about car alarms and someone thinking the car is actually being stolen, but then I remembered that no-one hears a car alarm and thinks its being stolen.

I'm also reminded of a story I read about a policeman who was called out because some guy had locked himself in his room and wouldn't come out. The cop kicked down the door to see the guy having a fap with his headphones on.

[Arx]

Tried MILD, no success. I don't actually have a dream journal, but I remember about a third of my dreams in near-perfect detail anyway, and another third in reasonable detail. Will starting to write them all out help significantly?

[Yoink]

What brand were they? They must have been some damn good headphones.

[freeformschooler]

Tried MILD, no success. I don't actually have a dream journal, but I remember about a third of my dreams in near-perfect detail anyway, and another third in reasonable detail. Will starting to write them all out help significantly?

Probably. Even if you don't remember all of them, you'll start to remember at least one scene or snapshop from every dream.

My alarm clock didn't wake me up like night, either. Wow! OK, back to putting it right beside the pillow.

[RekkaAtsuma]

I'm a very heavy sleeper, and I cannot seem to do WILD. I also tend to have a lot of Prophetic Dreams but when my Prophetic dreams become reality, it causes a sense of Deja Vu combined with near-crippling Nausea. As for my success so far with Lucid dreams, that has been limited to switching dreams only once a sleep cycle at the expense of oversleeping, with an ultimate result of tending to forget dreams more than remember. (The visual effect of dream-switching is like changing TV channels.)
I began trying Lucid dreams when a bunch of nightmares plagued me. The switches were successful in the fact they switched from the nightmares to something more acceptable.

My goal is to become a full-time lucid dreamer, and I need pointers on how to handle this with my situation as listed above, I am working on saving for a Personal and Dream journal, of which if things go well I should have said journal(s) at the end of this week.

[Tawa]

Hello!

My alarm worked last night.

I tried to use WILD, but I ended up laying there for an hour doing nothing.

[Carnwennan]

I told myself that I would start again yesterday, did all the meditation and reality checks every time I switched scene (going through a door, into or out of a car etc. I find that works a little better in my dreams since I am rarely in the same place the entire time) and got lucid (or at least, dreamt about being lucid) towards the end of my dream. I didn't do much, since I got a little too excited and woke up almost immediately, but I did manage to open a door without touching it which was cool.

I just have to say though, wow, I really didn't expect that holding my nose and inhaling through it would actually work but it does! It's weird though - it's like it's not working but is at the same time. I can only imagine that dream-me couldn't breath but real-me could (I can't really explain it better). This is probably going to be my go-to RC along side trying to remember how I got to places for now since it's pretty quick.