Many "Lucid False Awakenings" all of a sudden

[Laurelindo]

Hi, a couple days ago I experienced a False Awakening that immediately turned into a lucid dream, which False Awakenings usually do for me. Also, this last night I experienced not one, but TWO False Awakenings - in the first one my legs were itching a lot, which woke me up pretty quickly (I couldn't scratch away the itch during the dream, and it turned out that my legs were itching when I had woken up as well), and then I fell asleep again and had a much longer False Awakening, which I spent mostly on talking to some got girl and kissing her when I felt like it. Anyway, do you have any idea why these False Awakenings start happening now all of a sudden? I have had a long dryspell lately, but now I suddenly get False Awakenings a lot.

[dolphin]

An awakening is defined as an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something. I believe false awakenings are dreams about awakenings of all sorts so that would explain why they suddenly occur. The awakenings that usually cause the false awakenings don't always occur with regularity, though, so that might explain why false awakenings sometimes have dry-spells.

[Laurelindo]

An awakening is defined as an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something. I believe false awakenings are dreams about awakenings of all sorts so that would explain why they suddenly occur. The awakenings that usually cause the false awakenings don't always occur with regularity, though, so that might explain why false awakenings sometimes have dry-spells. Yeah, well basically I experience dreams that start with me lying in bed, and I immediately feel that there is something weird about the atmosphere and become lucid because of that - I cannot really describe what I feel in those "awakenings", there is just something about them that feel distinctly different from waking life, and that's my lucid trigger. And after that point they are exactly like any other lucid dream - I know I am dreaming, I check for inconsistencies and actually compare them with waking life, so I guess my level of lucidity is fairly high if I can make those kinds of comparisons (for example, in waking life there is a student building about 50 feet away from the entrance to where I live, but in my lucid dreams there is always a wide path in a forest leading down to a lake - obvious dreamsign!). I think it's pretty interesting that they sometimes occur so often, and it usually seems to happen when I fall back to sleep in the early morning.

[FryingMan]

When I'm generally far from lucidity, I don't get FAs. When I'm closer to lucidity and having more LDs, I get FAs much more frequently.

[Laurelindo]

When I'm generally far from lucidity, I don't get FAs. When I'm closer to lucidity and having more LDs, I get FAs much more frequently. Pretty much the same thing here, I think. I guess you could take advantage of this and try imagining a dream like this taking place while you are falling asleep - that is, vividly imagine yourself "waking up" in a dream and exploring it.

[FryingMan]

Right. I think it means you're paying more attention to your experiences. Dolphin suggests trying to notice every waking and doing an RC right away. Also, setting intention to do an RC upon any regaining of consciousness, and generally paying attention to your experiences all through the night. I also suggest doing a similar thing as the focus of LD practice: pay attention to all experiences, night and day, don't try to behave one way during the night, and another during the day. That way, you only need to do "one" main practice at all times.