Quote Originally Posted by Clairity View Post
iadr, great post as I totally agree! Almost every technique works the first time I try it and after that it's a struggle.

Thanks for this posting and I'm going to vary my "routine" and see what happens.
Thanks Clairity,

This has been particularly difficult for me because I am somewhat of a rigid person, always trying to perfect that one perfect technique that will work every time.

That perfect technique though, just may be a combination of several techniques which will keep the brain guessing on what is going to happen next.

So I am now trying to find a combination of techniques that might work the majority of the time.

I think this explains why devices such as Dreammasks often work when first tried, but then stop working, as the mind just learns to expect those flashes, so totally ignores them after a few times.

Even my 10 alarm clocks which have a loud rooster crow that goes off for a minute every half hour during the night no longer wake me up.

So far I have come up with the following schedule that I am going to try.

If this doesn't work I will just replace some of the things I am doing twice a week like the pulses and strobe lights with something else so that I am only using them once a week.

Supplements (Wed, Sat)
Strobe Lights (Mon, Thu)
Pulses (Tue, Fri)
Alarm Clocks (Sun)
Music And Suggestion Variations (Every night)