Thread: FA's: Do Most DEILDs Actually Occur During False Awakenings? Do FA's Have a Purpose?

Originally Posted by StephL

Originally Posted by Sageous

So I guess I see your point that FA's are a bridge -- which sort of coincides with the note I made somewhere above about a momentary laps of creativity. But there may be exceptions to this rule ... or perhaps we are attaching the term "FA" to more than one type of dream phenomenon.

Which phenomena do you have in mind?

Here are a couple:

* Just this morning, I had a long (mostly) non-lucid dream in which I learned something "very important" about the real source of our minds' higher functions. During the dream I actually said, "I wish I were lucid so I could hold onto this." Go figure. Anyway, I woke up in a moment and looked for a pad to write down my discovery. I found it quickly, and ignored its purple pages and the fact that there was no pen around, and that I never had a side table by my bed that looked like that. A few minutes later I awoke for real, with nothing left to remember but the feeling of that first dreams importance. [full disclosure: I have had many dreams that I deemed "important" during the dream and upon waking, discovered that that important thing that came to me in a dream was pretty much meaningless.]

* I have had many long series of FA's while fully lucid, where I would shift from awakening to awakening, same scene after same scene, unable to break from the loop even though I knew exactly what was going on. Since I wasn't being fooled, I guess you can't call the awakening false, but I did keep getting dragged into the same simple scene (usually my bedroom, but sometimes an equally simple version of another place altogether) with no escape except the long wait to natural waking.