Thread: not a dream !!

I dont think this is even possible. Would be funny to see though.

You mean seeing spiders when you feel that your awake and your not? that is normal to happen.

I've never actually believed I was in a dream during real life; that's what reality checks are for.
However, I have occasionally gotten real life memories confused with dream ones. For instance, I'll get deja-vu taking a book off a bookshelf, and then spend five minutes wondering if the last time I remembered grabbing that book was real or not.

After my first night terror with several false awakenings, I woke up sharply and couldn't determine if I was still dreaming. My head was buzzing, and I felt the monster I had encountered seconds earlier was still behind the couch. Even fully awake, I could 'feel' the thing still there, even after pinching myself. I had at least two false awakenings before I actually woke up, so I can understand now why I didn't know if anything was real.
I ran to my bedroom and hid under the covers until I deduced I was in fact awake.

When I went on an anti-depressant, I suffered micro-seizures that made everything feel a LOT like a lucid dream. Can't really explain, but everything became very bright and unfamiliar... Just different, but still real. I often wouldn't know where I was for a split second and my entire head tingled. Does that count?

So I just woke up and I was about to sit in bed and then I saw my hand is moving quite awkward since it wasn't moving like it should have. And since I just woke up from a dream I thought it was a false awakening so I shouted with excitement "It's a dream!!!" like I so time do in my dreams. That was not a dream as you can guess and I am glad nobody heard me . I guess that I woke up in the middle of my REM so maybe my hand was still a little 'asleep' or something like that.

That was quite long ago when I just started with lucid dreaming, but since you opened this thread I guess it quite fits here ^^.

... and that's why we have reality checks.. The different between a dream and waking life is subtle but it's definitely there. There is a somewhat universal feeling that's in every dream.