Edison did the same thing with a ball. He’d sit in his chair with his arm suspended at his side, hand holding a ball . When the ball dropped, he would awaken, refreshed. Don’t do this while driving!
I was just having a convo this very morning with Mr K (not the one on this forum) about the “area between sleep and waking.” I have studied lucid and prescient dreaming for a long time, but I always wondered about all those funny little ideas and images you start to get in your mind when you are just about to fall asleep. They’re so hard to describe sometimes, and yet you can derive a lot of insight, information, or whatever it is, from them!
I do this with a beer in my hand all the time. My dogs love it, my wife not so much.
Edison did the same thing with a ball. He’d sit in his chair with his arm suspended at his side, hand holding a ball . When the ball dropped, he would awaken, refreshed. Don’t do this while driving!
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I had this engineering class, Tue and Thu afternoon 1 pm, after lunch. Quiet, large room with filtered, warm sunlight.
My grade did not reflect Edison’s talent.
Drawing tables with stools. Older, kind of quiet, and kind of boring prof.
All the ingredients for sleep.
So, I would place my elbows on the table, and lightly hold my pencil between two fingers. The plan was that dropping the pencil would wake me.
Worked kind of OK. One time however, I was out. Pencil dropped. I waked, quick. Reacted and tilted stool back and forth, hard. I did not crash, but was awake for the rest of that lecture.