This happens to me from time to time.
Sometimes I feel one of my eyes closed, like glued, while everything is dark and blurry. Putting too much effort on opening it results in opening it for real (wake up).
Some other times I open room door (all dark, blurry, and sleepy eyes) and while I'm walking on the hallway I feel as if I was slowly sinking, like feeling tired and going to the floor. It's when I realize I'm dreaming and even if I try to control it, I just wake up.
Other times I know it's a False Awakening but room is really dark, I'll tell you what I do in case it helps your or anyone:
First I try to relax and don't give too much importance to the fact it's dark. My first focus is to try stabilize the dream so I rub my wands or walk to the place I know the wall is, and try to touch it, look at it. As I'm more aware of my dream body and feel a bit more "in the scene", I usually order for "light", not sure if screaming or just thinking, but I ask light, more light, sun light, or whatever, and the few times I did this, it just happened. I also opened the window blind and room went from dark, to light. Some other times going from my room to the living room changes it, because it has light.
Another thing you could try, once dream is more or less stabilized, is to just look at the wall KNOWING it's not really a wall and that it's not really there, and walk throught it. I did this once but unfortunatelly it all went black, and some seconds later I woke up.
But I think the main thing is to not worry too much about darkness as long as you see something, and first stabilize the dream, so you can expect to have some control over it.
Good luck.
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