Thread: A good idea or a waste of cash? (digital wristwatch)

Vibrating ones are better:
http://www.buddhasplace.com/Merchant...ry_Code=Clocks
http://www.dynamic-living.com/vibrating_watch.htm

That sounds like a good idea, and one I wouldn't mind trying :p. However, the watches I wear are analog, just for the style lol. It could work, and I would say, why not try it?

hey i'm trying to use this same technique. I've set my watch (18 dollars) to hourly chime for about the past three weeks and to a nose plug RC at each one, but I don't think it's beeped in my dreams (if i've worn it at all in them). but who knows? it could work for you. Plus the benefits of well-equipped digital watches (alarm, stopwatch, date, glowing diplay) i have found are well worth the investment

I have a Timex "Ironman" digital wristwatch that has a countdown & repeat function, and sets an alarm off at the end. It's a little longer than the hourly beep, but not a full blown alarm. I set it for 20 minutes, so it counts down 20 minutes, goes off, and starts over.

I think an hour is a little long because it would only go off in a dream if you're lucky; you could go the whole night without being in a dream when the alarm goes off. With the countdown function, you can set it to go off as often as you want. I've used it once or twice to try cueing me to become lucid, but it's never helped me.

I think Mes Tarrant was talking about the "DreamLight" that LaBerge and Levitan developed. It's a little fancier, and actually detects when you go into REM sleep before flashing lights at you to cue you. No idea where you could get one, and to me it almost seems like cheating. Not sure what I think of it...

I tried this last night. I had a special track on my iPod running in a loop: a beep and half an hour silence. It didn't work but I'm gonna try it for a while before I abandon this technique.

I use a watch for this same purpose. In my case though, I always leave the watch next to my bed since training to do an RC whenever you hear a beep is almost instantly learned. My biggest problem is the same as PJ's - although the beep is rather loud, I never hear it in my dreams.

I'd like to get a digital watch that gives a small shock every hour so that you might remember to do the "automatic" reality check during sleep as well.