Becoming "unconscious/asleep" to induce FAs and lucidity- my experience, any thoughts?
Last night I was re-reading EWOLD and the section about how to wake up from dreams: that if you lay down and go to sleep in a lucid dream, you will either wake up or have a false awakening in which you wake up in your bedroom. I was skeptical of this, especially since I've read about other people going to sleep and going other places, and also because Laberge expressed how that was simply his experience, and that others found themselves in other places besides FA in their normal place of sleep, and also that he was only talking about doing this while lucid.
So here's my personal experience, you can skip this paragraph to the next if you want:
I went right to sleep after reading that, and 5 hours later had a non-lucid dream where I was an soldier and there was some sort of huge missle being shot at our base. It was tracking me personally and I couldn't escape the missile, so I got on my back with my knees drawn to my stomach and my arms bent and pressed together covering my face (for some reason in the dream this was standard "I am about to be hit by a missle" position). The missile I guess eventually hit me, and I remember thinking to myself that I was not dying, but that I was being knocked unconscious.
I promptly woke up in my bedroom. I reached over to turn on the lamp (that I used to but no longer have in my bedroom) and tried to turn on the light. It did not work, and I thought to myself that the light had burnt out. I looked at the digital clock near my bed and RCed the time just in case, because my mom's purse was on my nightstand which made no sense whatsoever. The time was fine, so I got out of bed (where my one dog was sleeping as always). My other dog came into my room, and I noticed I couldn't see her tail, and immediately questioned in the back of my mind if I was still dreaming. Then it popped out, as if it had been curled under her body. I laughed to myself, but tried a reality check and my finger wouldn't go through my palm. I petted her for about two seconds before I woke up in my bed again.
A few things get me thinking about this experience, but one is that laying down in non-lucids and being "unconscious" (hahahahaha oh irony) or asleep will lead to you having a false awakening, no matter where that FA may take place. So if we can somehow find ways to get ourselves to dream about going to sleep or being knocked unconscious, we may be able to up our chances of false awakenings. Also, this is a reminder to all of you to do a series of reality checks every single time that you wake up! And to keep your eye open for dreamsigns like light switches not working, and to take your reality checks seriously, since they sometimes will fail on you. Also, NEVER laugh or joke about doing a reality check. Every time I do, it fails on me because I don't expect it to work, and also stops working in dreams. Take them very seriously, or you are not taking your lucid dreaming seriously, and not being dedicated or motivated may mean you won't be having a lucid dream any time soon!
So here is my question, since I just woke up and my brain won't be on for at least 2 hours: do you have any suggestions for methods or techniques to influence your non-lucid dreams into being about going to sleep or being knocked unconscious? I'm thinking of ways to emulate going to bed, being anesthetized, being in accidents where you bump your head... maybe practicing multiple times a day at physically getting in bed and pretending to go to sleep just to influence your dreams later in the day.
How strange, right after reading about schemas and activated schemas, that we don't dream about going to sleep every single night, since what we just did was go to sleep... there must be a way to access this... or maybe this is how our body prevents us from having lucid dreams every single time we go to sleep. What are your thoughts?!
