Lucidity, and the spiral of false awakening

Quest for Lucidity
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For the past three days, I have been experiencing an odd theme within my dreams.

I become lucid in my dreams, yet as soon as I become lucid, I feel attachment to my physical body. I try to ignore the physical, and ground myself within the dream, which eventually fails, and I end up back in my bed.

However, I am not truly sure anymore if I am really awake during these moments.

I seem to no longer have full dreams, but fragments of dreams, from which I “awake” from. But I am not awake. I have simply transferred myself into my bedroom in the dream world.

This confuses me, as I carry on with my regular routine of stretching, making coffee, and writing in my dream journal. Then I wake up, in my bed.

I curse myself for not realizing I was dreaming in my natural environment, and again carry on with my morning activities. Then I wake up again.

Last afternoon I had 12 of these occurrences. Last night, I had around 25 of them.

I wonder, why have my dreams turned to false awakenings? Why can I not become lucid in these instances? I do reality tests, but everything seems normal.

While pondering what might be causing these odd fluctuations in my dream life, I realize that I have been listening to binaural beats before I sleep.

These are tones that temporarily alter your natural brain frequencies, settling you into various trance states.

Perhaps this is the reason for my spiral of false awakening? I will post more as I uncover this curious situation. In the meantime, I would appreciate any comments or suggestions, or any common experiences shared.

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That sounds annoying…

You should make a lot of messages and stick them everywhere in your house.
So if you can read the message on your bedroom door “You are dreaming.” ,do a RC ,and check twice the message.

that’s an idea.

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What kind of rc’s are you using? It sounds like you just need to work on your RCs to exploit this FA loop. 25 in one night is a lot though, my record is only about 4, which already got me pretty confused, lol

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I have painted nails, and I check to make sure they are the right colors, and not faded. I also survey my surroundings intently.

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Have you tried the breathing through a pinched nose RC?

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Well my friend, you have helped me somewhat break the cycle of false awakening! I tried the nose RC during one of the FA, and became lucid. I however woke up right after that. I may have grabbed my nose in waking life…

I became lucid again that night after noticing my reality bracelet (Bracelet I use as a RC) was black, and larger, with a white stripe through the middle. They are purple stones in waking life. My hand glowed when I picked them up, and I became lucid.

Hope to see further progress soon!

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That’s good news. FA’s can be a great tool to become lucid, so it’s good that you see it as something positive.

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Reality bracelet…

Looks nice! Good idea.

Faraday is now afk “Looking for reality bracelet”