False Awakenings seem to have a strangely infamous reputation among lucid dreamers, and are generally considered a "problem" - but... why?
I used to have lots of False Awakenings when I first started out lucid dreaming, and I found them really useful because it was much easier to think rationally since I assumed I had woken up, and therefore I tricked my brain into becoming logical, and this made it much easier for me to become aware and critical - and on every occasion I noticed it was a dream within just a couple of seconds.
So why are False Awaknings considered such a problem?
If you have a False Awakening and notice it is a dream then it is essentially a lucid dream, and isn't that exactly what we try to achieve?