Thread: Is there anyway to make yourself have a False Awakening?

FAs can be induced by being aware of something while falling asleep. It can be a small light dimmed enough or a blinking light or just about anything that you can constantly be aware of which actually disturbs you from falling asleep properly but you fall alseep evetually. Usually an FA does not last long for me and even if I get lucid it's useless...you can try it though I've heard people use FAs to have LDs and last rather long....

IMJ

2 of my LD's have come from false awakenings...basically I just try and train myself to reality check everytime I wake up. Get enough of a habit and your dream self will do it as well.

If there was, we'd all be having LDs every night. I almost never get FAs, but I hear that they usually come forom becoming lucid and wanting yo 'wake up'

There's actual usefulness in FAs if you reality check each time you get up. They work for me sometimes, though I can't say I prefer them.

I reliably have false awakenings when I'm sleeping within ear shot of other people having conversations. Like sleeping on someone's couch while they are in the next room talking. I imagine that leaving the television on low enough volume would do the same thing. Be careful though, I've actually woken up from an FA thinking that somebody called my name. I walked in there with a blanket wrapped around me, earplugs in, and hardcore bedhead, "What? What did you guys what to talk to me about?" Only to find out that I had dreamed that part of the conversation. lol

I have FA's right before I would normally be waking up. If I wake up an hour before my alarm is set to go off, I'll go back to bed thinking that I'll have to be waking up soon. This usually leads to an FA. It's always been that way for me even before I joined DV.

I don't know about inducing false awakenings, though I get them most often upon 'awakening' from a lucid dream but actually ending up in a FA. I get them very, very rarely though. You can catch the ones you do have by doing a series of reality checks every time you wake up. I've gotten lucid from a few FAs just by noticing strange things were happening and reality checking.

Originally Posted by Shift

"I had two false awakenings, both of which became DILDs. In the first, I woke up in my bed and everything seemed absolutely normal. I was laying down to go back to sleep, but my hair was getting in the way and annoying me. I started grabbing it behind my head and twisting it, and there was just too much hair! I didn’t want to put it on my pillow, so I started to push it behind the headboard, against the wall. I was kind of grossed out, thinking that there might be dust or something, but I had about 8 feet of hair. I remember thinking, “OK I seriously need to go get a haircut already. I knew my hair was long, but Jesus Christ!” As I’m stuffing it down, I pick up the last of the hair and attached to it is my own head. I don’t remember looking down at the neck to see what else was there, just that my face was in profile, looking to my left, and that I could see my mole and my nose, and my face was accurate! I realized it was a dream and started laughing at myself. I dropped the head and did a reality check, pushing my finger through my palm. It popped right through, and I looked around my room. It looked extremely real, except that the shelves were no longer in front of the window. I made the classic mistake and rushed into the dream, instead of stabilizing. I decided to find some flying shoes and put those on first. I looked on the floor and there were some sneakers scattered about, so I got two white sneakers and started putting them on. I tied the lace of the right foot, but when I went to put on the left foot I blinked, or everything went dark, and I woke up in my bed."

After going to sleep, I had another False Awakening (not sure how after, though).
I woke up and I was lying in my bed. Mom came into the room and sat down by my feet, and she was holding a mug of coffee (I think it was that one with the hearts, it looked red and white). As she sat it spilled on me, not a lot, just a few drops. I was wearing that light blue v-neck shirt I owned when we lived in XXX. I put my finger on the coffee where it was on my chest and put it in my mouth and it tasted real (which is to say, bad). Mom apologized and I told her no problem. I started to sit up in bed, when I realized that I was lying on the eastern wall of my bedroom, with my head towards the closet and my feet facing south. “Whoa, what?” I asked, and I immediately suspected it was a dream. “Is this a dream?” I asked mom, and she sipped her coffee and just said, unemotionally, “Yes.” Everything looked so realistic that I felt silly playing the game, but she knows how seriously I take reality checks. I sat up more in bed and saw that against the wall where my bed should be, was my bed. There were two in my room. Definitely, this had to be a dream, but it was so real! So I tried to put my finger through my palm, and it didn’t work. “Ok,” I told myself, “Do another reality check. Do a series.” So I looked down at what I was wearing (forgetting about that blue shirt from before) and I was wearing a pajama top with little Chilly Willys all over it or something. Not that distinctive, but tiny cartoon penguins. It was definitely a dream, I decided, because I don’t own that top.
So I got up, thinking about how if I ignored her she’d disappear, and started walking across my room and trying to remember what I wanted to do in my next lucid.

FA's rock.