False Awakening FAID?

[Protected2013]

It's a little hard to explain this, so bare with me, I'm still trying to figure it out...

It's not really an induction to a lucid dream (WILD, Mild, etc) but rather something very strange that's been happening to me lately that makes me think that so called false awakenings can be guided or used to your advantage. I don't know, maybe other people's FAs are different, but mine are basically, not really dreams at all. Maybe yours are, but I feel maybe FAs are a different phenomenon.

There have been times lately when if I set my alarm off too early, or i'm just tired the next morning when it goes off...here's what happens:

I go back to sleep, but the more times I re-set the alarm and it goes off, the "deeper" the FAs get. Maybe as though my consciousness thinks I am awake, based on a cicadian rhythm or what time I normally get up. And I live thru my morning in advance?

it's almost like my/your consciousness doesn't know you really are not awake, and goes for habit, and this could possibly be used for knowing your future (what ever happens in the morning) Maybe the series FlashForward on ABC Thursday nights would explain it better or be a better example but only 10 minutes into the future, not 6 months like the show...but I feel these FAs can be guided.

Maybe FAs - if we realize they are FAs/dreams, we can then focus on something else and live thru that in advance, like deja-vu...

HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THIS?

[Tushix]

False awakening induced dream? Alll FA's are dreams :|

How about fail (not being mean) do it's

False
Awakening
Induced
Lucid

[deepsleep]

I wish I could induce false awakenings somehow..

[Naiya]

False awakenings are sometimes likened to "free lucid dreams," because as long as you make it a habit to RC every time you wake up (which shouldn't be too hard--worst case scenario, put a big sign next to your bed that says "RC"), you will always get lucid from a FA.

To induce FAs, you can basically do a MILD where you imagine yourself waking up in a dream as you're falling alseep. ;)

[trev]

i think i know what you're talking about. back when i was in middle school and my mother would wake me, i'd typically not get up the first time but doze for another five or ten minutes. what i usually did was 'think' about getting up, eating, getting ready etc, since thinking about it was so much easier than actually getting up out of the warmth of the blanket and physically exerting myself, etc. this pattern of thoughts led to me actually having small pseudo-dreams (in those five or ten minutes) where i actually believed i was up and about -- basically a 'false awakening' that was manifested from the mind as, i suppose, a WILD. sometimes this would happen multiple times in one morning, while i'd be reminded to get up every so often.

i was late to middle school most of the time, not surprisingly.

[EspadaInMyCloset]

lol, that happens to me too. It's really weird, because I think about what I'd have to do when I woke up, and I go in to this weird half-dreaming zone, and I already feel like I'm doing all this crap...

It's really annoying, because when I realize I haven't done anything, I'm like, shit...