Alarm clocks.

[Abstract Fire]

When I'm dreaming, lately I haven't been doing my writing-before-bed, because my lucid dreams then have been very short. But I just found a new way of lucid induction that's probably harder than finding a needle in a haystack: Using an alarm clock. If I'm not in between dreams when the alarm clock goes off, I hear it in my dream, so for a split second I'm like "I'm dreaming!" but I don't try to hang on so the alarm clock pulls me out of sleep. So, next time the alarm clock goes off I'm going to try and hang on to my dream as much as possible. (Or even better: Adjust the volume so you can hear it in your dreams but not loud enough to wake you.) I've done it before (except without an alarm), but that time I was oversleeping and succeeded, but then thought, "Hang on, what time is it?" so I withdrew. (It was ten AM. Oops.) Will probably not suceed, I'll have to adjust my clock's volume so it's not in-my-face (I mean ears). Yes, I know that this is harder than finding a needle in a haystack, I already know. Wish me luck, though.

[Theotherguy]

latley I've been having my alarm clock go off at 3 AM *usually it interrupts a non-lucid dream. And then I use VILD to get back into the dream.