Ever realized your waking up?

Last night (my first Lucid ever! woo!) I had a dream and when I realized I was dreaming the dream ended, everything went black and I instantly knew the dream was ending. It felt like I was floating up through water towards conciousness (excpt in black) Anyone else get this?

First, congrats on your first LD. It sounds to me like you just simply got to excite to be lucid, and woke yourself up.

First congrats on your first LD, Yeah I can usually tell when I am waking up like last night I relized I was waking up and I asked myself to sleep for two more hours and it worked. Sometimes even when I am having an intense lucid dream my eyes will open and I have to fight to keep them shut.

Making great progress goku! And yes, my first LD (something like a month ago) was very much like yours. Very shortly after I realized I was dreaming I woke up, with a sensation of floating upwards through a spiraling staircase...

I've done that many times, but I was never aware of what it could be until a few days ago when I got on here. It feels like everything is fading away and you're left in black, and to me it feels as if I'm just coming back and I feel like I'm going through a tunnel back to my bed.

in my more recent lucid dreams its felt like i was falling asleep, just at random and very quick, and then id be 'awake' in my bed. But yeah, in ludic dreams, i can always tell/know they are ending and ill be waking up very soon.

Invariably, I know when I'm waking. Scene fades to black and there I am awake.

It makes sense - you're conscious in your dream, so consciously you'd realize you're waking.

As was advised: Excitement plays a big role in losing lucidity...

Again: Grats on your first remembered LD!

:shakehead2: Being such a light sleeper, I am usually pulled out of a dream by sound.
Just this morning, I was pulled out of a lucid dream by a fan that I keep next to my bed. I hear the fan first in my dream and I start to lose my grip. Sometimes I can slow it down by rubbing my left hand with my right thumb, but sometimes it seems that there is just no use even trying.
Well, this morning I turned the fan off when I woke up(earlier in a non-lucid dream I actually had a false awakening about turning the fan off). It was exceptionally quiet at my house and I was able to get right back to sleep and another lucid dream. Just when I decided what I wanted to accomplish, the damn phone started ringing. :shakehead2:

I have a few interesting experiences about waking up and a few more questions. For a while I have thought that entering a lucid dream from the waking state would be like a reverse waking up, so I have attempted to make detailed notes on the experience.

Waking up from a highly active lucid dream can be accompanied by a falling sensation. And, very seriously, a perceptible "thump," as if hitting the ground, upon awakening. It doesn't hurt or anything, just very abrupt. Reality hits you.

Another event is very similar, in that it is a feeling of descent, but in a series of steps instead of a continuous drop. Some kind of cycling or rotating phenomena accompanies this. One was particularly amazing from my perspective, all wild and electrical.

I'd like to start a new thread about these feelings of descent, although I'm still thinking of how to phrase my questions...

Kim, I recall you describing something that reminded me of this, where you saw a series of light-emitting diodes circle around a few times as you were becoming awake? I can't seem to find that post.

By far the majority of wakings have been very quick and uneventful. Things go black, just as if I am looking at my eyelids and, wouldn't you know it, they're my eyelids. But not always.

It was in October lucid dreaming task (seeker's monthly thread), Ex...

I always see everything fading to black also. That's when I try to dreamspin to keep it going. Actually worked twice this morning for me! Although today I actually got dizzy in my dream and fell down. People all around me were laughing at me. I had an amazing night of three LD's. Only been at it a week too. I've had five total in the past week.

I see it now, thanks. Pretty interesting, huh?