Hi! First post here.
Long time lucid dreamer and long time sufferer of false awakenings. (roughly 16 years).

I have a question. When I wake from a series of false awakenings and/or lucid instances, I often awaken extremely groggy....like a heavily drug induced state. This has always been the case. What is new, however, is an intense sensitivity to sounds.
For instance, recently I awoke and I was actually trying to wake up but was having a hard time forcing myself to snap out of it. As I would start to drift off my ceiling fan became louder and louder and LOUDER. The more awake I was the softer the sound, but as I started to drift back into the sleep the fan became louder and louder as I drifted further and further. This went on for sometime until I was finally able to arise. I thought the sensitivity to the audio was strange but kind of shrugged it off until tonight when I awoke again and this time instead of the fan I could actually hear the radio.
I sleep with a radio in my bed. I'm not much of a morning person and sleep through an alarm clock if it is too far away. But the radio was off. And I could clearly hear the radio. It was kind of staticy but I was definitely picking up on it. I couldnt hear it when I was fully awake but as I started to drift the radio became more and more audible.
I guess it could have been part of the dream, but it was too familiar to the fan incident for me to just write it off..

So the question is, does anyone else experience an increased sensitivity to audio waves? I tried to find some info on it but came up short.

Thanks,
Sammie