False-Awakenings

Quest for Lucidity
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I’ve known about Lucid Dreaming for a few weeks now and have been more interested in my dreams. Last night I set my alarm to go off roughly 6 1/2 hours after I’d fall asleep. When it woke me I was rather dissapointed at not remembering a thing about what I was just dreaming, at this point it took me quite a long time to get to sleep.

When I finally dosed off, I don’t really know what happened but it felt like I woke up again. I heard that false awakenings normally occur after lucid dreaming but I didn’t know if they didn’t happen all the time, I made sure to do a RC anyway.

I go over to my wall to see if I could stick my hand through it but instead the wall begun to bend like it was made of rubber, I was so astonished I felt this rush going all through my body and I woke up. (I performed another RC and I was awake this time).

I had 3 of these False awakenings that night and on the 3rd one I even attempted to fly and I managed to float up the tree-tops then drift back down. I loved it.

I would like to know if it is uncommon to have more then 1 false-awakening in a night?

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Hi maskd.

That’s not uncommon, sometimes you can have bunches of FA’s in a row. Also, they dont nececcarily have to happen after a LD. And by the way, how can you have a FA and do a RC which proves you are awake? If this happens, you need to try other or more RC’s next time. I also wonder, did you realize you were in a dream after any of the FA’s?

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Well inbetween the first and second FA’s I woke up for real, I looked at my dream diary, turned away and looked back and it was the same, I also looked at my clock and it was showing the real time, I also tested my lamp and it turned on, I figured I was awake after all these things happening. I RC’d every time I thought I had awoken.

After the third FA I fell into a deep sleep and don’t recall any dreams occuring when I woke up 5 hours later.

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:smile: may I recommend the nose test: plug you nose shut and try to breathe through it; if you can, then you are dreaming. Very rarely did it fail for me. When I first became interested in lucid dreaming I had a LOT of false awakenings. I even tried to WILD in some of them, not knowing that I was dreaming. I also had many nested false awakenings :razz: yeah, they are pretty cool. Do a RC everytime you wake up(or think that you woke up). Sometimes FAs happen after LDs, like you wake up and tell someone about your LD.

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Yeah, my lucid dreams always ends in a false awakening. From now on I’ll start doing a rc every time I wake up, that should help.