Neverending False Awakenings...

[LonelyTurtle]

During a recent DILD, I had a none too pleasant FA experience, after which was the most vivid, and long lucid dream I've ever had. I'll start right before I became lucid. A friend and I were watching fireworks over a lake when suddenly I had a "flash", or a hallucination of a women with a sequence of numbers on her wrist; she pointed at the number 10 and I became lucid instantly and had a FA. I was fairly skeptical of this considering I just had a strange lucid so I reached up and nose plug RC'd and became lucid, before promptly waking up. I RC'd again, lucid again, woke up. It carried on in this manner for what felt like two minutes before I didn't even have time to RC, I just kept becoming lucid instantly and waking up repeatedly. I was trapped with that constant feeling of (Oh shit! I'm dreaming!), its all well and good once or twice but 50 times in a row is a little much. After a little bit longer I began to loose it thinking I would never escape from this and began thrashing and screaming, flipping my mattress over a couple of times before having the lucid stick. It wasn't a particularly pleasant time and I'd like to avoid it in the future, any thoughts?

[Reclypso]

Ya, don't try to lucid if you're under a lot of stress or have real life obligations you are worrying about. If those don't apply then I would tell you to read up on dream control, and you have to remember the classic line 'it's all in your head'

[Ctharlhie]

Yeah FA's aren't too fun, I haven't had them to the extremes that you've experienced (but I have had up to 5 in a row, and nightmare FA's at that), they used to be regular occurrences for me even before I became involved in lucid dreaming. Now I mostly spot them instantly. My advice is to just chill out when you have an FA, you're mind is expecting you to behave in a similar way to an actual awakening (when you wake for real you don't suddenly go 'oh shit I'm awake' and set about thinking about all the awesome things to do that day) it's the sudden surge inn awareness and excitement that causes the dream to collapse and you to have an FA. If it happens again just suppress any excitement or urges and calmly observe your surroundings, do you notice anything unusual? Anything that shouldn't be there? These details will help you when you get up and start to exert your control as you can completely believe that it isn't your real room and that you're in control.

[mooseantlers]

Yeah ive heard of stories like this most likely stress (also all 50 of those count as LD's tack em up if you like)

[LonelyTurtle]

Yeah, I was on a snowboarding trip so I wasn't stressed at all, I'll have to work on dream control. Speaking of which in the dream I could fly, change the time of day, use pyrokinesis and some other powers but I couldn't seem to change my locationl I tried jumping through my mirror, spinning and nothing seemed to work so I gave up after a while.

[dreamcatcher81]

My false awakening happened when i became lucid in a dream and posed a question to my higher self. after closing my dream eyes I posed the question 1 time nothing happened i posed it twice and i then started to realize im laying in my bed speaking the question, Keep in mind my eyes are still closed waiting for the answer, then I felt my wife rolling around in bed and then randomly saying " It works, I understand" In the back of my mind im like no im still wating on the answer (eyes closed) at that point i went right back into the dream lucid. Did i actually wake up in my bedroom i like to think no, because when i asked my wife about what she said, she had no recollection of it at all. Her explanation is that she talks in her sleep, which is true but she has never said anything closely related to what im saying while sleeping. Its always random words and phrases, sometimes sentences based on what she is seeing in her dream. Im just saying :-) namaste