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

I actually asked this question. The only advice I got was to WILD. The main motivation for me asking in the first place.

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.

Originally Posted by Tweek

FA's rock.

I second that (except when you need to wake up but you can't, then it just gets irritating.)

Yea it does... and can be SCARY! *is known to have chain reaction of false awakenings* xP

Hmph, well I suppose that once you start questioning your reality every time you wake up, you'll find that you naturally have more FAs than you might think.

However, there is a method (M-Wild, I believe), that can possibly generate FA-Induced dreams, Because the "Push" you're using to enter the dream world is getting out of your bed. (the Anchor is the hallucinations).

Check it out.

FAs can be induced by going to sleep when dreaming. That usually requires you to be lucid though, so this probably is no help with what you are trying to achieve. There are better methods to become lucid than trying to have an FA.

But he was asking if there was a way. It's more reliable than DILDS, if you have FAs often enough...

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

But he was asking if there was a way. It's more reliable than DILDS, if you have FAs often enough...

Becoming lucid from a false awakening would be a DILD...

I meant if you could induce FAs, it would be more reliable than type of DILDs where you just RC into it because of a dreamsign.

Originally Posted by Reality_is_a_Dream

I meant if you could induce FAs, it would be more reliable than type of DILDs where you just RC into it because of a dreamsign.

Ohh. Well, it's still sort of the same thing, where your dreamsign is "I just woke up", and you do a statecheck. But I see what you're saying.

Yea, I know that I am not making much sense
It's not that I don't know what I am sawing, I just don't know how to say it.

Originally Posted by gigaschatten

FAs can be induced by going to sleep when dreaming. That usually requires you to be lucid though, so this probably is no help with what you are trying to achieve. There are better methods to become lucid than trying to have an FA.

Quite right I am surprised you are the only one who stated this. This is the only full proof method I have found for being able to achieve a False Awakening 90% of the time.

The act of falling asleep while already in a dream causes you to either:
A) Wake up in reality allowing you to go for some method of WakeBackToBed allowing you to gain a LD, or potentially a False Awakening
B) Wake up in the dream thus achieving a False Awakening.

Once again this method is tried and true.

I know a method that can induce a lot of FAs, although will completely destroy your night of sleep:

Before going to bed (let´s suppose 11pm) switch your alarm to 2am; when you wake with the alarm do a RC, if you are not dreaming, switch another time the alarm to 3:30am; wake again, do the RC if failed again, do the same process; do this until the end of night but i think won´t be need it, will come a time that you wake and do a RC and found you are dreaming!. FAs will increase dramatically with this method, but how i said and it´s visible why, you should try this only at the weekends...

Yeah, most of the time when I get FA's, it's from thinking about waking up after I'm already Lucid.

I tend to toss most of the night so right before I go to sleep I tell my self I will still be dreaming when I wake up lol. I don't know if this will help for you, but it sems to give me a lot of FAs. And then as soon as I wake up I do a RC. I am not sure I can say this has induced the FA, but I do get FAs quite often.

I also have FAs after most of my lucid dreams. It is like the brain is trying to trick you back into the dream. I think another thing you could try to induse them is every time you are in your room (or where you have most of your FA) do a RC. I do this every time my self because of all the FAs I have missed in the past.

D.G.

false awakaning is when you already have full control and you just dont think your dreaming right?
I mean I have had them, and I know what thay are but I am not sure what thay really fell like?

well, this morning as I woke up in the middle of a dream I tried to induce a false awakening. I told myself I would have one and started to visualize having one... then bam, I had a dream and got out of my bed! The only thing here was that I knew I was dreaming from the outset, so it was more of a WILD than a FA. Still, it was pretty cool, and while it only lasted like 10 seconds it was my first LD in a couple of weeks