Strings of lucid false awakenings aren't fun! (LONG POST, please read!)
WARNING: This thread is going to be long as crap. Sorry, I can't help it. Dreams have lots of confusing details! There's a short version at the bottom, and I really appreciate any responses. Just pretend it's a poorly written short story, I guess. :cheeky:
So this morning I woke up after about 7 hours of sleep to feed my dogs. Getting back into bed, I realized that I may have a chance to WILD from a WBTB. So I surfed my Dreamviews from my phone for a few minutes and went to bed.
It's vague what happened near the beginning of my dream sequence. I do remember, however, a being in my bed and vibrating violently, then having a sense of flipping over, like falling off a chair. Perhaps this was sleep paralysis. I don't think so. I'll get back to that.
At the beginning of my dream (or at least as far back as I can remember), I was in my room. I may have gone downstairs a few times, I don't really remember, it was vague. Eventually I did a reality check, the nose pinch and palm poke. I realized I was dreaming. I may not have had a complete sense of logic, though (I was thinking "What if my parents here me down here? Wait, I'm dreaming upstairs. Wait, how are they hearing me then?" for example. I was just really confused at the beginning of the dream I guess XD).
But eventually, after a minute or two, I woke up. I was in my bed, immediately shut my eyes, stayed in the same position, and I violently shook and flipped once more. I woke up in my bed, thinking I just performed a successful DEILD. I did the nose reality check, and checked the reflection in the mirror, coming to the conclusion that I was dreaming.
I, with some trouble, eventually went through my window and jumped outside. I couldn't successfully fly, no matter how many times I tried. (I think it's worth noting, though, that I did manage to fly with a car I found, by pulling up the steering wheel like in a plain. Unfortunately, the ground looked like the neighborhood in the Sims. :lol:) I tried to get to a specific dream scene, but it was harder than expected. I knew that the dream could end any minute so I was trying to get somewhere fast. Before I could do much of anything, I woke up.
Repeating the same keep eyes shut and return to dream sequence, I tried multiple times to get to a specific dream sequence, each time waking up in the dream world in my own bed. I couldn't seem to control much of the dream, getting to a specific area was a convoluted mess of talking to dream characters, driving random cars, etc. It was hard to change the scene (why did I forget about spinning >.<).
I kept waking up after a few minutes of trying to do something with the lucid dream. But I could barely control anything! It consisted mostly of me trying to escape through my window and find some way to go somewhere else! One time when I returned to the dream and jumped out the window, I caught my feet on the windowsill and climbed back in, making sure to do another reality check in case I was really awake. I was dreaming.
At the time I thought I was having a really long DEILD chain. I was wrong.
It was really a false awakening chain.
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After the fifth time or so of "waking up," instead of shutting my eyes and returning to the dream to do a reality check, I decided to do a reality check when I woke up. I nose pinched, since it worked even in a dark room.
To my surprise, I could breathe through my nose! :shock:
From then on, when I woke up, I realized I wasn't really waking up, but instead having a false awakening. Going back to sleep in a false awakening wasn't doing anything but making vibrations! It would always wake me up in the same bed anyway.
So for the next few times when I woke up, I would immediately do a reality check nose pinch, and I would be able to breathe. This scared me, I thought I'd never be able to wake up. Eventually, I just decided to try to wake myself up.
I got scared after trying to wake myself up and just finding myself in bed in a dream once again. I wasn't thinking that logically, and to me it just seemed like I would be stuck in my dreams forever! I thought I'd never be able to wake up.
Eventually I woke up for real. I looked at the clock, from the time I went back to sleep to the time I woke up, about 50 minutes had passed. Instantly I was thinking more logically, and realized the entire thing was just part of one, giant dream. No real awakenings, just a dream of becoming lucid and waking up over and over. It probably only happened eight or nine times in all.
So back to when I said I thought it wasn't sleep paralysis that I went through. I think I was just dreaming of going through it. I think that if I could have only understood what was happening in the dream and stopped thinking about it, I could have moved on from it and had a normal lucid dream.
I need to think more logically in my dreams so I can stop wasting the entire dream doing stupid things! Like tricking myself into thinking that lucidity is harder than it really is and that I would wake up in my bed any second!
So, that was really long. Maybe I should make a TL;DR version. Sure.
TL;DR version: I went to sleep after waking up from 7 hours of sleep. I had a chain of eight or nine short, short lucid dreams, thinking I was having a DEILD chain. Eventually I realized I was really having a chain of false awakenings, having little to no control and waking up in my bed. I wasn't thinking logically the whole dream, panicked, thought I was stuck in my dreams, but eventually woke up.
So, any similar experiences? :laughhard:
