Thread: false awakening problems - any help would be great

You're right about the glasses. In lucid dreams, objects become more clear the longer you stare at them. But don't stare too long, as that will cause the rest of the world to disappear.

As for the rest, it sounds like you avoided the biggest mistake people make, which is failing to recognize a false awakening. Just remember that if the dream becomes unstable you can try touching things or rubbing your hands together or spinning.

I don't think it was so much the glasses, if a dream hands me glasses I am most certainly going to see what it is my subconscious wants me to see, even if that somehow ends the dream. It might be worth it all on its own to see what you can see through the lenses!

Your experience actually sounds very typical and normal, to me! Getting fuzzy sight sounds like the beginning of the loss of your vision, which is usually the first thing that happens when you are waking up from a lucid dream. You should have ignored the glasses (I know, I'm contradicting myself, above I was just speaking of dream glasses in general, obviously those appeared because your cure for fuzzy vision is glasses and that is what you first thought of) and instead focused on things to stabilize your vision and the dream. Speaking aloud, touching, smelling, tasting, hearing, and viewing things will help stabilize a dream and keep you in it. You can even whistle and do a combo of paying attention to making sound, listening to a sound, and RCing at the same time since for some reason you aren't supposed to be able to whistle. Read up on the forums about how to prolong lucid dreams, and how to stabilize dreams.

It is common to find yourself in a false awakening right after you "wake up" from a lucid. Keep this in mind too, and never be afraid to do a reality check. Also, it sounds like you spent quite a bit of time lying in your bed, which probably had your body focusing on the sensation of lying in your bed, and woke it up. Try to immediately do a RC when you "wake up", especially because if it is a FA you may just lose lucidity if you stop concentrating.

i had 2 false awakenings last night after both of my lucid dreams....BOTH of which involved me running to my mum to tell her that i had 2 lucid dreams.... i dont know how i didnt become lucid... they were SOOOOO real it was unreal! xD

so when i did finally wake up i did a reality check which i hardly do and fopund that i was awake so i went and told my mum for the third time lol... she wondered why i was so angry about telling her xD

Originally Posted by Niddiboy

i had 2 false awakenings last night after both of my lucid dreams....BOTH of which involved me running to my mum to tell her that i had 2 lucid dreams.... i dont know how i didnt become lucid... they were SOOOOO real it was unreal! xD

so when i did finally wake up i did a reality check which i hardly do and fopund that i was awake so i went and told my mum for the third time lol... she wondered why i was so angry about telling her xD

Definitely, you have to learn for yourself to do RCs every time you wake up! After a few of those experiences you realize you just can't trust reality anymore
Now before I tell my mom my dreams in the morning, I always ask if I've already told her And sometimes she says something crazy that clues me in that I'm actually dreaming

I had a false awakening this morning. I somehow realised I was dreaming, but as soon as that happened, I woke up, but falsely. Then a few seconds later I actually woke up and then realised my mistake... it just seemed soo real.