Lucid dream followed by wired false awakening

**gurenus** · 01-12-2011 02:03 AM

I've had quite a few sort of lucid dreams where people told me I'm dreaming and what not.
But last one was very wired. I was on a balcony, asked a person whether I was dreaming, to which he replied "Well yeah!!". I tried to fly of the roof to the next building but couldn't enough 'believe' in it and just floated to the ground. Next I know I wake up in my bed.
After waking up, I go to the bathroom, to do the daily routine. At this moment I feel very frightened. I try to hold door handle to the bathroom closed so nobody could enter. Next I know I wake up in bed.

This last episode was very realistic and until I finally woke up I had no idea I was dreaming. Is it a usual thing?

**zebrah** · 01-12-2011 02:18 AM

What you experienced is a glade awakening. These are quit common for lucid dreamers. Just start doing reality checks when you wake up. This should lead to some lucid dreams.

**gurenus** · 01-12-2011 02:29 AM

Well as I said I think I had quite a few of those. For example weakling up inside a really beautiful world with lots of colors ,bright skyscrapers, and what not. Then I started flying around exploring it, which felt really cool. But the problem is most of them end up as a nightmare, me being chased by somebody. Often I know its a dream but can't do anything about it.
That time I experienced basically the same nightmare but in familiar surrounding, and that was disturbing.
I have never intended to archive lucid dreaming, it just happens. Sometimes I really enjoy it, even nightmares, but not when it happens in my flat.

**zebrah** · 01-12-2011 02:41 AM

Yeah just get in the habit of Realty Checking all the time. But make sure you aren't doing them mindlessly. Pay attention to why you are testing reality.

**gurenus** · 01-12-2011 02:53 AM

Thanks, I'll try do that with a specific playing card. Should be interesting ))

**zebrah** · 01-12-2011 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by gurenus

Thanks, I'll try do that with a specific playing card. Should be interesting ))

How are you doing a reality check with a playing card? What you are doing may not be a good check. But I'm interested to hear how you do it.

**gurenus** · 01-12-2011 03:24 AM

I put a card face downwards on my sleeping table. i remember its color and image. When I wake up, check it. Then put it face downwards and check it again. I feel its kind of a double check - when I check it first, I see... say queen of harts. After I put it down, try to think whether it is the right card, that should be there. Then I check it a second time, if it changed, well then I'm dreaming. If it didn't changed but I feel its a wrong card I try hard to remember what it should be. That would give me enough concentration to realise whether I'm dreaming or not.

**zebrah** · 01-12-2011 03:28 AM

I think you would be better of using a reality check like pinching your nose and trying to breath. Or you could try pushing your finger against your palm to see if it goes into your hand. There are reality checks you can do all the time. Besides your brain can just recreate the card during a FA. Some times when you look back it will be different but that isn't always the case.

**gurenus** · 01-12-2011 03:33 AM

Well an animal fear did help to awake.....
As for pinching a nose, I tried a couple of times actually while sleeping, not so helpfull... For me its usually helps to ask people around me, that is what I'm using. Except in a case I mentioned earlier, since I never had a dream from my bedroom, it was always some other place.