Thread: False Awakening Loop

No Idea. Could it be because it happened once, you expected it to happen again, so it did.

Expectation seems to be everything in dreaming.

You were in the same dream the whole time. Realize this. Do not think of a false awakening as waking up inside another dream. Think of it as the dream constantly changing to the familiar "waking up" scene. If you think of it as a movie, it will be easier to stabilize.

I say, do a reality check, and stabilize the dream. Don't go too fast. Accept the dream.

I think these false awakening chains (and false awakenings in general) are caused by lucidity. When you are lucid, brain patterns mimic those in waking life more closely than any other part of sleep (closer than normal REM sleep). Other parts of your brain notice this, and think that it is time to wake up (the brain is conditioned: "If brain patterns mimic waking life, I must be waking."). This is reflected in the dream by false awakenings. Over time, with more lucid experiences, your brain will change its response to lucidity ("If brain patterns mimic waking life, I might be awake or I might be dreaming====>Better reality check."). To reinforce this reconditioning, ALWAYS reality check during a false awakening!