LD leading to FA

Quest for Lucidity
1

A few days ago, I had my first LD. It was unstable and lasted only few seconds - probably because of excitement.
Today I experienced something similar, but

  1. I don’t remember it well, although I have quite good dream recall
  2. it wasn’t so vivid
  3. after few seconds it ended in FA!
    Can very unstable LD end in FA? Or it was a dream about LD (“false-LD”)?
2

I think so, yes. Whenever you are likely to wake up from an LD, you are also very likely to have an FA. The way I experience it, waking up for real and having an FA occurs for the same reasons, such as exitement, a lack of stability in your LD etc.

No, it was probably a very low-level LD. Having an FA does not automatically make your LD into a “fake-LD”.

3

When I just started out, I had several low level ld’s accompanied by FA’s. This is actually a sign that you are improving.

4

LD’s can definately end in FA’s. I had an LD awhile back that was short and not very vivid. I remember grabbing my piece of paper after supposedly waking up (before I had a mini cassette recorder) and writing down my dream. Then, I really did wake up and couldn’t figure out if I had really written it down or not because I was so groggy. I was so confused. :help: Another time I could see my room out of one eye, and with my other I was still dreaming that I was looking in a closet and there was a cat screeching and meowing really loudly at me. I couldn’t move either. Not very cool.