Thread: The False Awakening Problem

Last night, I fell asleep will the intention of lucid dreaming. At 3 AM, I woke up, took 100 mg of B6, and then tried to WILD. I didn't succeed, as usual (WILD often fails because I fall asleep way too fast), and no interesting dreams happened until I woke up at around 7 AM. I knew, though, that more sleep would help, so I went back to bed. I'm fairly certain that's when a false awakening occurred; I was in my bed. I'm not sure exactly what I was thinking, but I was definitely not lucid, so I must have still believed I was in a dream, but I though "I want to get lucid!" I can only assume I was trying to WILD. I concentrated and obtained that feeling that my whole body was alive with nerve activity, but to my surprise I couldn't get lucid. I tried again, concentrating harder, but to no avail. I gave up and the dream fades from my memory after that.

It may be possible that the dream was real, and that I did wake up and try to WILD, but I doubt it for some unknown reason. My question here is, if I was in a dream then, and I was trying to get lucid with the same feeling I have always gotten lucid with, why didn't I get lucid?

In all of my 5 or so successful lucid dreams, I have never once even though about using a reality check, so I don't think that they necessarily work for me.