Waking up before your alarm and Presentiment

[ApotheosisMMC.]

It happens to me quite a bit. I wake up for about 20-30 minutes when I'm most tired and about 30-60 minutes when I'm not. I guess I don't like how loud my alarm clock rings.
As others have said, it's more surprising to wake up earlier when you have a commitment that you're determined you can't miss no matter how tired you are. I remember forgetting to set my alarm about three times, even though I went to bed late, and I've woken up half an hour earlier. Only once did my boss have to wake me up with a phone call.
I also remember an episode where it was more "scary" and I woke up more than once before it was the right time.

 

[whitecoast]

Wim Hof mastered the art to some degree.

That study was an immense milestone in showing how breathing techniques and cold exposure influence human physiology, including the immune system, but we're talking about something qualitatively different here. In the study the participants achieved their immune system dampening effect through Wim Hoff's breathing techniques. That's very different from just using conscious intent, the way you can intend to get up at a certain time.

The control group also did no previous training related to meditation, cold exposure, or breathing techniques. Based on the study itself it wasn't at all clear whether the participants were being asked to consciously lower their inflammatory response, etc. So it's a bit apples-to-oranges, and doesn't quite let us rule-in the power of conscious intent.

 

[daddycat]

Q: (L) I would like to know if there is anything T G could do to enhance his recovery from cancer?

A: PMA. Positive Mental Attitude.

Q: (L) The illusion is that there is no link between consciousness and matter.

A: Yes.

...

Q: (L) So, you are saying that it is not that there is a link, the illusion is that there is separation. There is no difference, they are the same?

A: Yes.

 

[Fluffy]

That study was an immense milestone in showing how breathing techniques and cold exposure influence human physiology, including the immune system, but we're talking about something qualitatively different here. In the study the participants achieved their immune system dampening effect through Wim Hoff's breathing techniques. That's very different from just using conscious intent, the way you can intend to get up at a certain time.

The control group also did no previous training related to meditation, cold exposure, or breathing techniques. Based on the study itself it wasn't at all clear whether the participants were being asked to consciously lower their inflammatory response, etc. So it's a bit apples-to-oranges, and doesn't quite let us rule-in the power of conscious intent.

What I was getting at is if those things applied (breathing, cold, meditation) with conscious intent could increase or amplify the body/mind capacity to achieve the intended outcome.

 

[SOTTREADER]

I woke up 5 minutes before my alarm this morning . In typical fashion, I then had a super quick 5-min nap and then jumped out of bed when the alarm finally went off.

 

[loreta]

I never use an alarm because I hate the sound of it. This bib bib is unbearable. So before falling asleep I imagine a big clock and the time I want to wake up and it works. The body after all is a magnificent machine, an excellent computer.

 

[Cosmos]

Happens a lot to me. But I always put it down to my "internal clock" rather than precognition. 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.

So it doesn't seem strange to me that some part of the my brain or consciousness sets that as as reminder and is somehow keeping track of time and wakes me up around that time. 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.

I tend to think so as well: Much of what determines when and why we wake up is influenced by our inner clock that we can and do influence through our (pretty much down to earth) habits. If you have conditioned your inner clock to wake up at a certain time in the morning through a clock, chances are, if you do it long enough, that your inner clock is conditioned to wake up around the same time without a clock.

I have a little story to tell that showed me just how we can mess with and/or influence our inner clock:

I worked night shifts for quite some years. Switching from around 4 weeks nightshift to 4 weeks early and then late shifts. At the beginning of the night shifts I used to make my break at 02:00 am at night AND ATE a regular daytime meal. It took me a while to figure it out, but for some reason I woke up everyday during daytime shifts (early and late shifts) pretty much at 02:00 every night feeling hungry and having a hard time falling back to sleep. After a while I made the connection that that always happened after 4 weeks of night shift in which I ATE normally at 02:00 at night. So then, I figured: “Let’s see what happenes if I don’t eat at night at all“. So I stopped eating at night, and low and behold, quickly I didn’t wake up at 02:00 at night during daytime shifts anymore! After that realization I never ate at night shifts again and the problem never came back!

So I figured that I had conditioned my inner clock to wake me up and feel hungry at 02:00 at night and I stopped that by simply not eating anything at night, which by itself is probably not what our bodies are made for at all.

 

[NCfugee]

I've not worn a watch for nearly 30 years now and rarely use an alarm, though with ever-present mobile phones my watchlessness isn't anything to shout about. But at the beginning, I stopped wearing a watch as I considered that I never had to do anything or be anywhere to the exact minute and my body clock could generally tell the time to within 5 minutes. Even now, if you ask me the time, I'm rarely more than 10 minutes out and frequently much closer. Some years back, in my teaching days, one student asked me the time, I made a show of calculating the angle of the sun and then gave him the time, he looked at a friend's watch and I was absolutely spot on: 12:52pm.

How or why is this the case, I don't know, but I wonder if it's something connected to a steady heartbeat - our own personal timekeeper.

 

[Scottie]

I tend to think so as well: Much of what determines when and why we wake up is influenced by our inner clock that we can and do influence through our (pretty much down to earth) habits. If you have conditioned your inner clock to wake up at a certain time in the morning through a clock, chances are, if you do it long enough, that your inner clock is conditioned to wake up around the same time without a clock.

Note that in Sheldrake's article, he also mentions that people who often wake up before their alarm (me!) also do it even when they are not waking up at a standard, habitual time.

I notice that normally, I wake up about 5 minutes before my alarm. But if I have to get up extra-early, I wake up 15 minutes before. No idea why...