I don’t understnad why everyone hates FA’s either. I think they are pretty cool. I notice that I get them a lot, when before I go to bed, I am nervous about oversleeping, so then I wake up in my dream thinking I’m on time, then I wake up again thinking I’m late, then again, in a panic, and eventually I wake up for real, and realize that I still have a half hour or so to get some more sleep!
The one thing I do notice though is that for some reason, my mind feels like I didn’t get a good night’s sleep, because I was “waking up” all night, when really I wasn’t.
I’ve never thought to do a RC when I wake up. It’s a great idea!
Sorry about this late post. I just wanted to comment on something I read a while back.
This is my very same experience. Doing a reality check whenever you think you wake up is a very good idea. I have had my very most real and vivid lucid dreams in this way.
I told this story in another thread, but it really belongs here…
The other morning I woke up and started writing in my dream journal. I found it very easy to recall the last few events of my dreams cos they were really interesting and amusing and still fresh in my mind.
Then, moments later, I woke up again and realised I had dreamed writing in my dream journal. Then I got up and pretty much wrote the same things word for word that I had written in my dream. But this time I included the details of the FA.
The funny thing is, in my dream of writing in my DJ, not only did I write accurately the details of my dreams, but I even got the date right! And I’m bad at remembering dates at the best of times.
That’s what made the FA so frustratingly real.
This is my most annoying FA. It was annoying for 2 reasons number one was the content and number 2 was because a very experienced Lucid dreamer like me should have hit upon the dreamsigns.
I am having a dream about something. Suddenly I wake up. I think it is real but is actually an FA. I proceed going on with my usual routine of getting ready for school and utterly miss the strange numbers on my clock. I proceed to go through the entire school day missing dreamsigns such as funkitated lights, inability to read text and even several cars going by with the word “This is a dream” on them. This actually happened another two times until I actually woke up.
I hardly ever have any FA’s but I remember a few…All of mine are annoying because I’ve never had a lucid dream yet. I can’t remember any of the RC’s or when I should do them.
For some reason I can tell FAs and real awakenings apart quite easily. When I have an FA, everything feels different. It’s like everything is more silent than usual, I don’t really know exactly how to explain it…
Sometimes I also like FAs.
Especially when you get lucid again, the feeling when you realize your FA is so cool.
In my last LD, I woke up on bed in some room I don´t know. Made a RC out of habit, noticed I was dreaming, and woke up in the very same room. Already suspected something, made another RC and got lucid again, woke up in my living room.
This time I was like “Nice try!” and jumped through the wall without even checking
When I jump through a window I usually don´t feel anything at all.
With walls it´s different. Usually I can´t really jump through them, I slowly make my way through a wall. It feels like walking through a very thick kind of liquid, honey or something. One time it even hurt to get my head through it .
So I usually prefer windows
I wonder what the record is for consecutive false awakenings in one dream? I think it would be pretty interesting to have some kind of a competition… see how many FA’s someone can get in a single dream. With that said, I think I would have a pretty nice start… I had four right in a row this morning… with about 20 or more minutes of lucidity between each FA. FA’s are definitely fun when you know you’re having them, and are kind of funny in a way to look back on if you didn’t manage to get lucid from them. If anyone has had many FA in a row, feel free to challenge me. Haha! Happy dreaming
I don’t think I’ve had loads of FA’s in the same night but on ‘lucid nights’ I’ve had a few in a row. I’ve only just started having lucid dreams but about half the times I’ve become lucid it has been sparked off by a false awakening. The first time this happened (not my first LD) it totally confused the hell out of me because I woke up, got out of bed and I was in my flat but at the far end there was a sofa I don’t have and a window which isn’t there normally. I immediately knew that wasn’t right but, as I could remember waking up and getting out of bed, it took me a while to figure out what was going on! Then I had further LDs starting by waking up in the same setting but I grasped what was happening right away. When I finally woke up for real I was looking around the room suspiciously for anything that wasn’t right as I wasn’t sure if it was another dream or not!
Do other people tend to have several lucid dreams on the one night? I’m a newbie to lucid dreaming (as well as to this forum) but, from my very limited experience, I’ve found that some nights I’ve become lucid in a few different dreams and other (most) nights I’m completely oblivious in all of them! I’m starting to think of LD’s as being like buses “You wait ages for one and then three come along at once!”
HAH! I’m new to the forums… been reading a few days now, and I was into this a while back and decided to give it a bit more dedication now… I think it appropriate to add an experience of mine to the list
I remember one night, I was lucid (I’ve only had a few!) and I woke up, (or so I thought) and looked at the clock… everything seemed normal at the time… my digital alarm clock read somewhere around 5:00am… I remember looking at my CD player, and where it normally would have said “End” because the CD finished, the LCD display said “Milk” ROFL! I thought nothing of it and proceeded to go downstairs to have a smoke… I shortly returned to bed for a bit more sleep…
Then, I woke up for real, I don’t know how much time had passed… but in this REAL awakening it was around 3:00am… I went downstairs and had a smoke, and it was ONLY THEN of all times that the thought suddenly attacked my mind: “‘Milk’?! WTF is MILK!!!” lol… and then I remembered about the first time I woke up it being later than it was RIGHT NOW… It was only then, hours later that I realised it was a FA. It was a very humorous experience for me…
I must say, the FA was as real as any world I’ve ever experienced! I might try some of the suggestions to “Fake” an FA next time I get lucid (hopefully soon)
I woke up one morning from feeling that someone came and sat on my bed. For some strange reason I did not feel any fear or worry of “whose that on my bed?!” but I felt that whoever it was sitting there, meant no harm (and was there to somewhat comfort me). I have a TV in my room which was already playing with volume low (i like to leave the tv playing while i sleep), so I figured it could be my brother or sister, I guess, sitting and watching TV. I didn’t bother to look up or even open an eye, I pretended I was asleep, and then within 1 minute, I fell asleep.
I then went into a dream, where I lifted my head to see “who was sitting on my bed”, and did not see anyone, but rather an OUTLINE of someone sitting on my bed, like someone invisible was sitting there.
Later when I woke up I asked everyone in the house who it was that sat on my bed this morning, they said that nobody had been in my room all day!
If that was true, then who was it sitting on my bed that morning? And why did I feel that whoever it was, was there to comfort me? Or could that have been an FA? I was dreaming that I felt someone sit on my bed? But then how did I dream that I dreamed of sitting up and looking who was there?
It really did not feel like an FA, but I cant be too sure.
It sounds like you had an FA, but never realised, and just drifted back off to sleep, then had ANOTHER FA, where you actually was able to realise something wasn’t quite right - a dream within a dream maybe. That seems to be at least the most LOGICAL explanation
If i had a dream within a dream, sheesh, thats amazing hehe.
Regardless, that someone who was sitting on my bed, wether it was in a dream or RL, I WANT TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS! Next LD, I will call out for whoever sat on my bed, to appear!
Florestan, just read your previous post, that is SOME FA! MILK LOL!!! thats a funny FA for me to tell my friends hehe
I’m pretty sure I had one just recently, though I suppose I’ll never really have any way of knowing because I didn’t do a reality check before I went back to “sleep.” It was a combination, in my mind at least, of the dreaded old-hag syndrome and the annoying FA. Gave me the willies…
My brother (I think) was standing by my bed, and he was reaching his hand out to me, so I said, “what are you doing?” in my overly-inquisitive, threatening sort of tone that can be useful for getting people off of my back. Then he said, “nothing,” and I’ve lost all memory of what happened next.
I KNEW something was wrong, but I never reality-checked. Grr… There’s always next time.
I had a lot of false awakenings and recently I’ve learnt to turn them into lucid dreams. However it was an end of a “traditional” “wake up from your bed” FA.
My my mind is devious : it found a new trick. ↓
Now almost every FA I have is very embarassing. Or I wake up in the middle of doing something… very confusing…
I know I woke up, and I even try to record my dream, but I fail to notice that I woke up in another place/time and already perform some activity
I can’t remember ever having a FA in all of my life. Is something wrong with me? Is it something that will develop as a side effect of training for LDs?
Oddly, I actually remember a time when I woke up in real life and thought it was a FA. I woke up and heard a very loud pounding on my roof along with footsteps. I looked out my window and there was a long red truck in the driveway. I went back to sleep despite the hammering and awoke that morning at my usual time. I had a very foggy memory of earlier that morning and thought it was just a dream. I dismissed it as such and didn’t give it any more thought until later that afternoon, my neighbor asked me why their were people on my roof. You can’t imagine how stunned I was.
You’ve woken up from a nightmare, right? And fallen back to sleep after a few minutes? Well, I bet you have had a FA, but just never realised it.
Since I’ve started taking RC’s everytime I wake up, I’ve been surprise at how often I have an FA that follows the pattern I just described. Dream of waking up, laying in bed, and then falling back to sleep.
Infact, since I’ve started (a month or two), it’s happened to me four or five times. And I use to think I never had FA’s…
So, get into the habbit of taking RC’s whenever you wake up. Even if your RC don’t work, there’s a good chance that you’ll notice something weird that’ll tell you you had an FA but didn’t realise (for example, I saw a magazine in my bedroom that I don’t have IRL, and only realised it in the morning).
Oh, and if you want to try and induce an FA yourself, try reading right through this topic. I did that, and strait away had an FA that night .
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