Thread: What is the very first FA you can remember?

First night I read about Lucid Dreaming on this forum, actually. I woke up and was really hyped about lucid dreaming, so I did a reality check and realized I was dreaming. Unfortunately, my subconscious decided I wasn't ready to lucid dream and prompted a jumpscare to wake me up. Took me an hour before I went back to sleep, and not because I was scared; I was super excited.

Man, what a fulfilling experience.

I'm pretty sure my first really vivid FA was in my early teens when I was away at music camp (and yes I had a flutist as a GF haha), when I "woke up" during the night, and wandered the halls of the dorm building, including entering the bathroom where there was a very bright light and one of the conductors was in there (standing bottomless). I recall seeing my cot with my sleeping bag on it, and a dartboard (?) that wasn't there in waking.

In the morning I couldn't figure out if the experience was waking or dreaming. There was "something off" the entire time, I just couldn't put my finger on it. Most likely a FA.

Around 5-6 years old I had vivid dreams that took place in my house at night with a "bad guy" who would find me and slap me (not very hard) and then all the nightmare monsters would swarm me.

Mine was horrifying. It was last year, even before I started research about lucid dreaming.
It was a stressful week and I was going to sleep very late and very tired.
Well, this particular day I can't even forget. It was a 6'am approximately and I woke up(in real life) to go to the bathroom. This is when my mom tell me that I was saying something during sleep. This all happened in real life. I didn't pay much attention and went back my bed.
Today I know this was an WBTB.
Ok. I laid down and in the next second my mom enter in the room entirely naked asking me if had seeing the black cat. What black cat? I think. We don't even have cat. So she sat in my bad and say this is demon or something like this. I felt so scared and began crying.
So she hug me while I'm crying.
This is when I woke up in the exactly position I was dreaming. I remember my room being the same way the real life. Every single detail.
I didn't know anything about dreams or FA. So I was scared as fuck.
I went take a shower and go to the work earlier.
It was after that I started searching about this and discoverd Lucid dream.
I've had 3 ld lately.

Sorry my poor English.

I believe I got my first FA in late 2010.
I dreamed that I went out or bed and into the kitchen, and then I decided to do a Reality Check by checking my hands - they looked shiny and orange, almost as if they were made of fiery glass, and my reaction to this was pretty much "wow... hey, is this a dream?!", and then I became lucid and woke up.
That dream blew my mind, and boosted my motivation for lucid dreaming like crazy, and after that night I would have similar FA experiences that turned into lucid dreams at least once a week, and sometimes more than that, for a few months.

My first ever FA was when I was about 7 years old or so, where I went outside of my bedroom and there was this white and green monster thingy lying on the floor in the hallway. Similar to others only recently did I actually realize that it was a FA.
When I had my first lucid dream I also had a false awakening. I got lucid while at school waiting for the bell to go, as I walked through a doorway and a giant expanse of white greeted me. I shot some fireballs and lightning and then woke up, or so I thought. I supposedly old my brother about my lucid, very excited, and then went on dreamviews for a bit, but when I asked my brother if he remembered me telling him about my dream he just had a blank stare; I had dreamed the whole thing haha. FA's can be a great way to get lucid but can also be frustrating as missed opportunities that become glaringly obvious once you wake up.

Originally Posted by BlairBros

My first ever FA was when I was about 7 years old or so, where I went outside of my bedroom and there was this white and green monster thingy lying on the floor in the hallway. Similar to others only recently did I actually realize that it was a FA.
When I had my first lucid dream I also had a false awakening. I got lucid while at school waiting for the bell to go, as I walked through a doorway and a giant expanse of white greeted me. I shot some fireballs and lightning and then woke up, or so I thought. I supposedly old my brother about my lucid, very excited, and then went on dreamviews for a bit, but when I asked my brother if he remembered me telling him about my dream he just had a blank stare; I had dreamed the whole thing haha. FA's can be a great way to get lucid but can also be frustrating as missed opportunities that become glaringly obvious once you wake up.

That sounds like a cool lucid - even if it was short lived! Oh yeah, I know the feeling about missed opportunities. I once 'woke up,' expecting to have the day off from school since there was a strike going on, and then mum came into my room and told me I had to go to school after all! I woke up for real murmuring 'noooooo.'

I got my first one when I was around 7 I guess. My false awakenings have nothing special about them, they're made of me doing what I'm supposed to do every morning. I usually find out it's a dream after taking a shower, dressing up and having my breakfast in the dream. It's pretty disappointing.

I used to get stuck in false awakening loops. I remember the very first time I got stuck, I had never felt panic so intense. I thought it was over and that I would be forever waking up. Now I either shout "WAKE UP!" or BEG to god or something like that and wake up immediately. Trying to focus on how my body feels against the bed helps too.

I woke up from my brothers room after a lucid and thought that I had woken up for good, even though I had been sleeping in my own bed all night. I began to have this feeling as if the universe or "something" was playing tricks on me, the reality was just... off. Everything seemed normal but I couldn't quite catch what the problem was. I caught the dream off guard and saw a small white thing move by itself on the top side of a window. I was so confused of what I saw and still didn't realize it was a dream. I heard a phone ring on my own room. I was walking towards the door and then I saw this sharp teethed, short old lady with an empty look behind a wall near my room. Still nothing. I answered the phone and there was an incoherent voice saying something. Then I finally woke up.

The earliest one I have recorded was when I was around ten. Not too interesting, though. I had a dream about school followed by a FA where I was sitting up in bed, it was night, and my lamp was in a different place from usual. Then I woke up. No lucidity, I don't think.