Need Advice on "False Awakenings"

Upon investigating some of my most recent lucid dreams, I've decided that my biggest obstacle is false awakenings. I've had some of the most infuriating and obvious false awakenings in my lucid dreams, and for some reason I can never seem to defend from them. Looking over my dreams, it seems that I just assume I've had a false awakening any time the scene changes rapidly while I'm lucid. The hard part is that I can't seem to react the way I should, i.e. with a reality check. The very moment it happens, my lucidity's gone, and then I'll actually try to go back to sleep wherever I am (this includes parks, the den of my grandparents' house, and other ridiculous places). Even though I usually become lucid again once I've "fallen asleep," it never occurs to me within the dream that I'd never left it. I'm sick of my lucid dreams being fragmented by scene changes that cause me to try to DEILD, especially those that under any other circumstances wouldn't even be considered FAs. In your experience, what are some of the best ways to bust false awakenings?

Make it a rule to RC the MOMENT you wake up, every time you wake up, every day. And don't forget to commit to the RC. This may sound tedious, but it worked wonders for me. In any case, it's just good practice.

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Originally Posted by RebelSeven

Make it a rule to RC the MOMENT you wake up, every time you wake up, every day. And don't forget to commit to the RC. This may sound tedious, but it worked wonders for me. In any case, it's just good practice.

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This sounds like the way to go. If you get used to doing an RC immediately after waking up you should eventually start doing it in your dreams as well. And if and when you do you will notice the false awakening and should have an easier time (re)gaining lucidity.

False Awakenings are my favorite. They're the only time I'll ever DILD. xD

Ever since school let out I've been having a lucid dream every week or so. I've been wanting to try Puffin's sporadic awareness technique, so if I couple that with frequent reality checks (especially upon awakening), then I bet that I'll get somewhere. That means I'm my own worst enemy now; one of the biggest reasons that I don't RC when I wake up or write down a few dreams is because for the first twenty minutes or so of being awake, I have the world's comfiest bed. :cheeky:

When I FA, that is a huge problem, I am always unrealistically comfortable and languid. The effort to raise my arm is stupendous, and yet, it's only when the RC fails that I realize why :P That's why committing to the RC is paramount. The times when I least want to do it is when it pays off.