Is there anyway to make yourself have a False Awakening?

[mandy2583]

Just wondering cause this could be valuable to have a lucid dream?

[PSPSoldier534]

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

[imj]

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

[simo]

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.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

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'

[Dash]

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.

[speedbasssux]

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

[DreamingGhost]

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.

[magical mike]

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?

[Brandon Heat]

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? A false awakening is when you wake up in the place you fell asleep except you are in a dream. Example, you wake up in your bed, but you are in a dream. Since you wake up in your bed you don't realize that you are dreaming. Because of this you can either go Lucid right off the bat, or you may not become lucid and just go on about a normal dream.

[legit]

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

[drewmandan]

Just wondering cause this could be valuable to have a lucid dream? Two ways really stick out for me: 1) If I have to get up earlier than normal, I will often wake up even earlier than that and intermittently check my watch. But sometimes, I don't check my watch in real life, I check it in a dream. This will only work if you really do have to get up. You have to believe it. 2) This one is easier to set up. Make yourself have to pee. I can't tell you how many early morning false awakenings I've had of just going to the washroom. But it only tends to happen when I really have to pee. So drink a glass of water before bed.

[legit]

I wonder... you know how in the morning (atleast for me, I use autosuggestion every night) you wake up after dreams and just lay there, half-awake and half-asleep, slowly drifting in and out of consciousness? I was thinking, there is a good chance that some of those moments could be false awakenings. No matter how tired I am tomorrow morning, I am going to force myself to do an RC and see if this is really true - if so, it could be a 100% way to have a lucid dream every morning

[nifter45]

once i had a dream, and i had to pee so i dreamed i woke up an ran to the toilet and started peeing, but then i felt something unnormal and then for real i woke up

[PSPSoldier534]

once i had a dream, and i had to pee so i dreamed i woke up an ran to the toilet and started peeing, but then i felt something unnormal and then for real i woke up Need bathroom! *runs* Relieves. *walks back and wakes up* ...I'll blame it on my dog!