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Maybe its easier to think of it like, dreams dont actually happen, theyre just random memories imprinted in your brain so you think they happened but they didnt. If its a lucid dream, you remember it as if you know its a dream...

As for lucid dreams. I have had them on a couple of occasions, but very rarely. In them, I realized that I was dreaming, and tried to take control of my dream. Lucid dreaming is like juggling, though. If you try to concentrate on how you are managing to juggle, you drop the balls. The minute I realized I was dreaming, it started to fade, and I woke.

I had a friend who tried this Mega Memory program. The program had him associate bizzarre imagery with numbers, letters, and words, to help him remember them. He got crazy with it, and got to where he could memorize a 20 digit string of numbers in a few minutes, and retain it for months. Anyway, he used to talk about how he started having lucid dreams as a side effect of this program. I guess conjuring up all the bizzare imagery for this method, somehow triggered a similar part of his dreaming brain and exercised it more.

preach on, brother! I always have trouble waking up in the morning, and if someone or something wakes me up I'll be tired no matter how many hours of sleep I have gotten. I also had a talent for sleeping completely through alarms. After my freshman year (which was a disaster because of sleeping through alarms and skipping class) I decided to make a drastic change from having 8am or 9am classes to having nothing before 10am on three days and 1pm on two days. My grades went up from a C+ average to an A- average

maze, i will let it slide since it is obviously a strong issue with you, but speaking as someone who has worked both sides of this issue, please don't call me a liar so blatantly again.

before i was 18, i slept so hard i used to get beat for it.. yeah actually, foot stomping beat, in my sleep cause i couldn't wake up fast enuff to suit my old man.. so i have indeed lived through it, and survived..

the ass whippins did not solve my sleep habits.. and YES i still insist its a sleeping habit, one you and your family have yet to break.. you obviously have not had reason enuff to resolve it yet..

my sleeping to hard was solved on my second day of basic.. i suddenly realized it was no longer a luxury to get up when i wished anymore, and some sort of a switch was thrown.. one i wish i could turn the other way sometime.

getting mad at people cause you sleep hard, is not a viable solution, if you cannot teach yourself to get up easier, you can at least realize you sleep hard and set the alarm accordingly.. if it takes you an hour longer than normal people, set the damned alarm an hour earlier for christ sakes.

sleeping hard is truly a learned thing.. i suppose there can be medical reasons, the only reason i give it credence at all, is because of my inability to sleep, there has got to be some reason for it, one thats medically based.. as i get older, i seem to sleep less.. i do not feel any more rested, i just sleep less.

my only hope is, you never need to wake up fast, cause you will suffer for it if it happens, be it house fire, burglary, or tornado.. as i said, i could have slept through anything, including being beat-up, so don't think i say this easily, my childhood is not something i wish to discuss, no one here has earned that right yet.. but it was imperative that i show you, i been there, and taught myself to get up.

internal clocks cannot be easily set, case in point, the damned daylight savings crap.. it takes me a couple weeks to reset my internal clock, just because of this one stinking hour.. BUT it proves you can reset it eventually, and with the proper motivation.

people who sleep hard, AND have no clinical reason for doing so, can reset the internal clock that governs how you wake up.

the problem lies in, asking yourself what it would take to do it.. hopefully not something life threatening, cause, once you are dead, it kinda reduces the amount of time you have to succeed.. that was NOT MEANT as a joke.. i was dead serious.

waking up, is much a part of sleeping as going to sleep is.. if you have trouble doing one, you will most likely have trouble with the other.. i have no trouble going to sleep, its remaining asleep where i have problems

i had a co-worker once, worked with him for nearly 3 years.. always arrived at work asleep.. he insisted he slept to hard and couldn't change it.. he actually got dressed on his way to work.. come to find out, he was stupid enuff to hit his snooze button till the last minute.. i gave him the daily respect he deserved for doing it.. i worked his ass off from the moment he arrived.. needless to say, our first couple hours each day were not pleasant ones.. but i loved every moment of it.. i didn't teach him a damned thing, when i left he was still lazy about getting up.. but i had a blast torturing him.. the only bad thing is, i acquired a deep seated scorn for people like him.. the solution was so easy, but he...well you know, after 3 years he wasn't about to change.

poke all you wish, i have lived with this since about 18 years old.. its that switch i was talking about..

i have tried all your solutions, none help.

i have no trouble attaining sleep, its remaining asleep thats my problem.. i just suddenly wake up.. i don't have troubled sleep, its just time, and sudden.

i would give almost anything for a rested sleep, just once to wake up refreshed.

anywho's, i endure.