Hello! I’m new to the forum and apparently a new poster as well. I’ve always loved to control my dreams but lately, whenever I realise that I’m dreaming, I always end up in a normal dream in which I always tend to think I’m awake. I don’t know why this happends every single time and I want to make it stop. Does anyone have any ideas?
PS! This started happening after I read the website about the possibility of waking up after realising that one’s dreaming. Pretty ironic, huh?
What you are experiencing are False Awakenings or just FAs. There’s a BIG FA-related topic in the Quest for lucidity forum, you should take a look at it.
What you could do is try to reality check every time you wake up, so if you have a False Awakening, you’ll do an RC and find out you are dreaming, and thus get lucid again.
Good luck and sweet dreams!
Oh, and remember to introduce yourself in the Gathering forum, it will be nice to give you a proper welcome there!