Waking up before your alarm and Presentiment

[Alejo]

I thought that was very appropriate. When I used to make 24-hour shifts in the deep Spanish countryside, normally I would be on call in the health center. In a good shift, you could sleep all night. In high season, you would be lucky if you slept a couple of hours. Regardless of the tiredness, I would usually wake up before the phone rang with an incoming emergency during the night. Like I would sense that someone was deciding to call at that moment for their emergency and as the phone rang, I was already waiting for it. It's really less traumatizing that way.

Yes, that's probably the other side of that puzzle that I found really interesting, I think he explained it with the example of the fire fighter that would wake up seconds before the alarm would go off, and the experiment with the electrodermal measurements with the randomized pictures, because I've experienced the unexpected out of regular cycle awakenings, specially during stormy nights, right before thunder claps, I wake up to witness it happen awake.

Because on the one hand, the regular cycles and circadian rhythms of your body, as well as routine, can probably explain waking up before your alarm goes off, maybe even as an adaptive response to stress, in order to avoid the stress of horrible alarms, you'd adapt to wake up before them, provided you have a regular enough schedule. But the unexpected events that you still wake up before, those are interesting.

 

[Gaby]

But the unexpected events that you still wake up before, those are interesting.

Or "expected"? For instance, it would happen when I knew at some level that "I was it". I've been part of larger emergency networks, where if they can't get a hold of you, well, there's someone else. Or for calls when a 4 hours delay response is acceptable. Yeah, I think I've missed a few of those. Didn't hear the phone, even at the loudest volume.

The deep countryside was different. Whether car accident, crazy person, epilepsy, heart attack, etc. They call you and you're it. It's not possible to miss those calls, your awareness would simply not allow it. And so is palliative care for the end stage of life when there's already agonic breathing. You're all they've got kind of feeling.

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

I wake up before my alarm clock pretty much every day, even if I change it. It's a lot easier to notice waking up than a subconscious "alarm" during the day. But obviously instruments can detect it as the article showed. Now I'm wondering if precognition of that sort is happening to us constantly, and it's just a matter of noticing it. I wonder if there's some kind of device that we could wear that can detect those subtle physiological changes and would send some kind of alert (outside of a lab setting)? Then we can track it and see how many of them were precognitive (rather than reactions to things), and maybe eventually train ourselves to notice it consciously when it happens?

Fluffy got the main parts of the article. It ends with:


“Some people hypothesize that precognition is your brain entangled with itself in the future, because entanglement is not only things separated in space, but also separated in time,” he explains. “If it can be entangled with itself in the future, in the present you’d be feeling something like a memory that is going to happen in the future.”

It's funny the phrased it this way, because it's pretty much how the C's described it:

Q: (L) Does a person carry within their soul pattern memories of every single incident, event or happening that has ever occurred to them throughout all realms of their experience?
A: Memories are imprint of "Past, Present and Future."
Q: (L) So, if the imprint is there... (J) "We are you in the future!" (L) Right, so if the imprint is there, and no outside force including Lizzies or Orions can...
A: You can remember us.

Another thing - I wonder how many accidents, potentially fatal ones, are averted because of this kind of precognitive alarm? And how many bad decisions or "accidents" still happen despite the subconscious signal simply because we still didn't react correctly?

The C's said:

Q: (L) Okay, the first question I have is that I have been contacted by this guy named Armando. His son died. The son was born on August 10, 1996, and died on October 7, 2011 in Santa Barbara, California. Now, he has some questions, and I'm making an exception to ask these questions for him because he's really quite distraught. So, his first question - and I'm gonna try to help out with these questions - as he wrote it is, "Did his son decide to go to the contemplation zone, or did he decide to stay here?"
A: It would not be a good thing to be earth bound. Sergio was confused for a bit, but his father's questions enabled him to move on.
Q: (L) Okay. His father asks, "Is there anything I can do to help him?"
A: His father is not in a position to help in any other way than to release and accept his son's choice.
Q: (L) Are you saying that his son chose to leave?
A: At one level, yes.
Q: (L) But it was a terrible accident. I mean, how can you choose by an accident?
A: At the level of the soul the decision is made to withdraw the awareness that normally prevents such occurrences.
Q: (L) So you're saying that when accidents happen, that at some level even if the specific accident isn't engineered or set up, that the soul can make a choice to withdraw the acute awareness of reality that permits an accident to be more possible or probable? Is that it?
A: Yes.

Also this whole "remembering the future" reminds me of the premise of the web-bot project. We receive all kinds of subconscious signals, which change our words/behavior enough to be noticed statistically by someone else, but not enough for us to notice the signal as it happens. There's gotta be a way to practice noticing it!

My girlfriend has a story where she was a passenger in the back seat of a car with multiple people in the car, and right before they crossed an intersection she yelled STOP, the driver stopped, and a car/truck just barreled through the intersection despite having a red light on their side, which would've hit them from the side if they didn't stop. There was no way to see it ahead of time as the other road was obscured by objects, and to this day she can't explain how she could've known, or what compelled her to yell "stop!". It was odd enough that everyone in the car was calling her a witch (semi jokingly) and trying to figure out how she could've known.

 

[Il Matto]

I follow Rupert Sheldrake on Substack, and just in case you may have not seen it, I found the following article rather interesting and thought provoking.

Thank you for linking this article @Alejo - I'd seen it and thought , "Ha, that looks in interesting, I'll get to reading that soon". Of course, I then forgot about it, so I don't know what that suggests about my ability to set an intention... Anyhoo, I've now read it, so thank you.

I'm definitely in that category of people that ordinarily wake-up before an alarm; something I've always just put down to a 'well-trained' body clock. Being woken up by my alarm is an exception and usually only happens if, for whatever reason, I've had a crappy night's sleep. I would say, though, that despite my consistency with this, I still don't have the acorns to not set an alarm (just in case).
Annoyingly, actually, my body doesn't seem to want to take a break from its routine when I'm on holiday from work - I'll still wake at my normal time, even if I've gone to bed later the night before. So, grudgingly, I've had to admit that Matt Walker is right: "Regularity is King" for quality sleep.

But the unexpected events that you still wake up before, those are interesting.

Or "expected"? For instance, it would happen when I knew at some level that "I was it"

I do find this to be an interesting phenomenon, which I've had some experience of.
Some years ago I was working in a residential care home for children, a job which frequently involved 'sleep in' night shifts. I used to dread doing these shifts because I knew there was a good chance that I was in for a rough night. I lost count of the number of times that I woke up in the night to silence in the house only for some big 'incident' to kick-off a few minutes later, which is perhaps similar to @Gaby's experience.

 

[Tuulikki]

I often wake up before my alarm goes off and also wake up when I hear the tinest ping before the alarm goes off. I am a very light sleeper. I have practised the intentional waking method and it works beautifully as long as it is imprinted strongly enough. I have two alarm clocks set for slightly different times, one of which is some distance from my reach. I have an abhorrence of being late for anything.

 

[Alejo]

My girlfriend has a story where she was a passenger in the back seat of a car with multiple people in the car, and right before they crossed an intersection she yelled STOP, the driver stopped, and a car/truck just barreled through the intersection despite having a red light on their side, which would've hit them from the side if they didn't stop. There was no way to see it ahead of time as the other road was obscured by objects, and to this day she can't explain how she could've known, or what compelled her to yell "stop!". It was odd enough that everyone in the car was calling her a witch (semi jokingly) and trying to figure out how she could've known.

I've had a few similar experiences to this one, and thinking about it, it's fairly common. I remember reading in the Gift of Fear how the author describes the decisions we make while driving, that we're not aware of but that have an explanation as we read the environment, subtle changes in the behavior of other drivers and make us not accelerate, or "predict" when someone's going to cut into our lane. The author also goes on to say that things like "knowing when someone's about to rob you" and things as such, could also be explained by subtle changes that we can't pick up consciously but are there.

And I always found it interesting how I have a style of driving, for instance, and on some occasions I completely shift it at a traffic light, and there's always a reason, like a guy about to run a red light or something, or a pedestrian crossing.

So, this presentient probably works in the same manner, it's perception of something ahead of us that we prepare for and react to, only it isn't physiological.

 

[Bernardo GA]

I also remember my grandma telling me when I was young that you could "pray" to the "animas" (which are recently passed people that hang around) to help you wake up at a certain time and it would happen.

I loved it about your grandmother. It would be great if many more people would listen to their grandparents, because they know a lot about things that actually work!

I too have this thing about waking up a little before the alarm clock goes off. In my case it is exactly what Joe said:

Basically, when I set the alarm, I'm doing more than just setting the alarm, I'm also consciously setting an intention to wake up at that time the next morning, and maybe thinking about it being important to do so.

Also this:

It's a bit weird (or maybe impressive) that it would always do it before the alarm goes off though, which has always been the case.

At some point I have thought that this might have to do with something that has been mentioned here as "remembering the future".

However, now I have another way of reasoning it out or imagining why the phenomenon occurs.

If my reasoning were to be correct, it would apply to both cases. That is, both for why we wake up before the alarm clock we set ourselves at a certain time, or for the cases where there is no pre-established time, as in the examples of Gaby, who also wakes up before the alarm rings or a call to attend an emergency, or whatever it is that requires her attention.

The idea I get, is that that part of our consciousness that is not sleeping while our physical bodies are, does not stop reading the information field at any time.

In turn, that part of our consciousness to which I refer, is not the one that is limited by the perception of linear time. Not even when we are in vigil. If we rarely pay attention to it when we are awake , or if we generally do not notice it except on occasion, that is another matter.
What is certain is that this consciousness is there and is part of us at all times.

Then, taking into account how inconvenient it is for our health the abrupt changes in our different rhythms or brain frequencies while we sleep, that the appropriate thing is that these changes of rhythms in the brain are natural, harmonious passages and, that includes that for the moment of waking up naturally and in a healthy way, there is some specific frequency, one that is the most appropriate for that moment, then, we will always prefer to wake up in that way and not by the sudden sound of an alarm.

Therefore, if we give enough importance to wake up at a certain time, even if we have an alarm clock we set it to make sure, it is very likely that that part of our consciousness that I mentioned before, through its resources, will help us to wake up respecting the natural rhythms, as close as possible to the time we set the alarm clock and always before it rings.

If we value and take advantage of this great opportunity or not, because the temptation is to stay in bed, risking to fall asleep again until the alarm goes off, which is paying dearly for a little bit of pleasure, that depends on our decisions while awake, in relation to our willpower.

I think that in the same way, this part of our consciousness helps us to wake up before the alarm, phone or whatever rings, to attend emergencies for example, where there is no pre-established time.

I think the way it does this has to do with what was said before.
This part of our consciousness is not conditioned or limited by linear time.
And it is always reading the information field. Rather, the part of the information field to which it has access.

Within what it can access from the information field, it is quite possible that there are all the events where it is linked in some way.
I will give a practical example:
Suppose that in some house during the night, a child is running a fever and the parents are desperately asking for medical assistance by phone.
At the nearest hospital, it's Gaby on duty . She is sleeping while she can.
From our perspective, at issue at about few minute someone will wake up a Gaby, for example with an alarm, to go and attend to that emergency.

The part of her consciousness that is not sleeping, the one that is reading the information that is linked to her, and the child's event is, knows perfectly well that this alarm will sound abruptly to wake up the sleeping part of her.
Then she can act in some way, so that her sleeping part wakes up in a healthier way, before the sound of the alarm.
It can do so, because let us remember that for that part of our consciousness, the laws or constraints of linear time do not exist.

If what I am saying makes sense, much of what happens to us in the form of precognition, presentiment, things of that kind when we are in vigil, may apply the same dynamic.

That is, a certain level of our consciousness that is registering information that has some link with us, and that reading is in the present continuous.

That's more or less how I imagine it could be.

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