Ok this is weird I had a really vivid dream, which is normal for me but this felt so real that when I woke up I actually thought it was a real event. Let me explain, I had a dream were my step-dad brought me a New laptop but then I woke up in real life this was not a false awakening of anything like that. I went straight downstairs when I woke up and searched for a laptop that I got in my dreams. It was not until about 5-10 minutes that I clicked an realised it was all just a dream 
That was weird. Has anybody else even done this it also got me wondering what if you have a really long dream that changes who you think you are mabye it would explain some amnesia cases? Just a thought my main reason for this post is to see if anybody else had this.
It happened to me once but I didn’t know what lucidity meant at this time, so I didn’t identify this event like you did.
It’s weird because I almost feel the same thing when I have a “deja-vu”.
If it’s a good dream, you’re really disappointed when you realize that it was all a dream, and by opposite, you feel relieved when you realize that it was a nightmare !
I don’t know if there is any explanation except the fact that your dream was so vivid that you thought it was reality… Were you lucid during this special dream ?
I was not lucid but I did keep asking myself if this was real, I still cannot believe that I woke up and thought a dream was real.
This sounds like a very realistic false awakening to me! What makes you say that you do not consider this a “false awakening”?
False awakenings can be incredibly real. Some of them are just amazing. I’ve written in my dream journal, played with my kids, talked to my wife, checked Facebook… all kinds of stuff. Once I started lucid dreaming (particularly when I used SSILD, really), the false awakenings became super vivid and convincing.
Suffice to say that I always try to remember to reality check after I awaken! I still often forget, though. 
Hope you enjoyed the experience! Strange, isn’t it?
Ah, I had something like that happened to me aswell. It was really quite odd afterwards, but then I realised it was a really vivid false awakening after asking my mom why she woke me up at five in the morning just because I was listening too loud to my music. Which of that hadn’t happened.
I mean if it was a false awakening he would have had to awake up to come type this thread? I am assuming that he knows it’s not a false awakening because probably would have recalled waking up from it if it was. I could be wrong though…
And this has never happened to me before.
I have a friend who had a similar experience. He woke up, got ready for school, the dream lasted like 45 mintues he said. When he woke up again he couldn’t believe it because of how vivid everything was.