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      So, the question is, what is the highest number of false awakenings you can remember in one dream?

      After a particularly profound, periodically lucid, confusing but well-written (&#33 dream this morning, I can now say it is 4 or 5. This many FAs is quite fatiguing. The worrying thing is in the last FA, I could read clocks and what-not perfectly well, and it felt very real indeed - until I woke up that is.

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      4-5!?!?!?! they must be extremely vivid.
      As for me 1 at most, im not easily fooled.
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      I had 3 FA's in a row in one dream. When I discovered the first one I decided to be very suspicious, and managed to notice the other two, altough it felt as if I was awake.

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      I had about 4 or 5 once, but I was trying to keep going, and failed. Lost lucidity in one, becoming lucid again once I got up, haha.

      There was one guy on here I remember posting about having 20 or more, but they were a nightmare due to a psycho chasing him through them, when he just wanted to wake up, and fearing he'd died and got stuck in an eternal loop or something. I'll dig it up for you if you're interested!
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      I had a similar dream a long time ago where I was stuck in my bed and although I could move a strong force was restricting me. I had an overall sense that I was trapped in the dream forever, it was quite disconcerting. The colours where bright and odd music was playing, I thought I was in some sort of twisted heaven.

      But this serial Fa is something quite new to me.

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      The most FAs i remember having is 3, and they were all very rapid, a few years ago.

      5 must be very irritating. 20 i can't even fathom.


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      About five in a one single dream.

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      Here we go, guys. I found it eventually -

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      I think 2 is my record.

      Although, I'll have a lot where I can move, but I can't open my eyes. It's really irritating cause I can't start a new dream scene, and I have to force myself awake.

      Holy crap 20!?!?!? That would scare me to death.
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      Regarding Janis' 20-FA extravaganza, I to have dreams so real and so hard to get out of I thought I was dead, like the one above. They dont last for so long though, although as a child I'd often have lengthy unwanted LDs.

      This 4-5 FA dream was superbly profound though, and consisted of two intertwining stories of lucid dreamers, who, through abusing their powers, were condemned to eternity in a dream.

      They initially enjoyed it; who wouldn't? But one got a feeling that they had spent an unfathomable amount of time in the dream - nearing an eternity, and they were bored and wasted. They'd end it all, but they were stuck in an existence that was empty of meaning, they'd kill themselves if they weren't immortal.

      The male dreamer would just sit with a gun shooting birds that flew by; he'd have women with him, but he was bored even of that game. The female dreamer was a sorrier sight; gaunt, exhausted, ashamed. She prefered to stay in an empty room. She was bored of anything else. She would have a bed in there; desperately trying to sleep so that she would wake up.

      That I was trapped in this dream was ironic.

      At one point (1st or 2nd FA) I had a thought that was as if it came from God; "There is [or 'there may be'] an eternal afterlife, but people get bored of eternity, and are thus reborn, forgetting their past lives."

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      Quote Originally Posted by Identity View Post
      Regarding Janis' 20-FA extravaganza, I to have dreams so real and so hard to get out of I thought I was dead, like the one above. They dont last for so long though, although as a child I'd often have lengthy unwanted LDs.

      This 4-5 FA dream was superbly profound though, and consisted of two intertwining stories of lucid dreamers, who, through abusing their powers, were condemned to eternity in a dream.

      They initially enjoyed it; who wouldn't? But one got a feeling that they had spent an unfathomable amount of time in the dream - nearing an eternity, and they were bored and wasted. They'd end it all, but they were stuck in an existence that was empty of meaning, they'd kill themselves if they weren't immortal.

      The male dreamer would just sit with a gun shooting birds that flew by; he'd have women with him, but he was bored even of that game. The female dreamer was a sorrier sight; gaunt, exhausted, ashamed. She prefered to stay in an empty room. She was bored of anything else. She would have a bed in there; desperately trying to sleep so that she would wake up.

      That I was trapped in this dream was ironic.

      At one point (1st or 2nd FA) I had a thought that was as if it came from God; "There is [or 'there may be'] an eternal afterlife, but people get bored of eternity, and are thus reborn, forgetting their past lives."
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      You should really write a novel about it ^^
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      Quote Originally Posted by Wolffe View Post
      You should really write a novel about it ^^
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      I agree. That would make a great book.


      Chances are someone has already written about it though....
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      How could someone of written about his dream?

      Though I definatly agree. That dream is definatly novel material.

      As is Janis' dream. Both are very interesting.
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      I think I posted about his before but, I had this one dream where I was stuck in a 3 to 4 second loop. In the dream I was lying in bed and a serpentine, green, slimy monster bit my right ear off. As soon as my ear tore free I would FA and the dream started over. This continued around 5 or 6 times. When I finally woke up I was not sure if my ear would get bit off again so I jumped up and ran out of my bedroom.
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      I had this weird sequence of lucids where I would have a FA and there were these people in my bedroom that were there to help me get lucid or something like that. I would "fall back asleep" and be lucid again in seconds in another place.

      I guess that would be about 3 or 4. I do not think that I was lucid in the FAs, perhaps because I simply did not want to lose the dream and wake up IRL.

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      When I was a teenager... I'd say around 14 or so years old, I used to stay with my Aunt a lot during the summer. She had a new boyfriend and I didn't really like him very much. One night I had.. I'd say roughly 7-8 FA's and in each dream I got up, went downstairs and got ready to go stay with the two of them and he killed us, each time a different way. When I actually *DID* wake up for real, I was supposed to go to her house with her, and I was really afraid that the dream was a premonition. I ended up going, and of course it was just that I didn't like him a lot, that I was having the dream. But I did tell her about it.

      Anyway, yeah, that was the most I've ever had and I hated it!
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      Quote Originally Posted by HyperSniper View Post
      I agree. That would make a great book.
      Chances are someone has already written about it though....
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      Just this morning I had my first lucid and during it there was about 7 false awakenings

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      Wow....Quite sketchy all this, and interesting&#33;
      I never had that many FAs.
      Only about 3 nights ago I did a False staying Awake-ing: I had problems going back to sleep (IRL) and I felt tired at some point (this is where I fell asleep) but didn&#39;t think I went asleep, saw a strange light in my room and woke up in the same position....strange &#33;
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      I had a marathon of FA&#39;s that were about 5-10 seconds long, each. (There&#39;s a post about it around here, somewhere, besides my journal) I had "woken up" and my blanket was covering my face. I tried to pull it down but, even though I&#39;d feel myself grab the blanket and yank it off of my face, it would still be there, covering my eyes. I&#39;d be like WTF?&#33; and then I&#39;d feel myself "wake up" again and, when I&#39;d open my eyes, the cover would still be over my face. I&#39;d try to pull it down again and the same loop kept happening over and over.
      I noticed that it had happened at least 7 times before I was too frustrated to even care about counting, but I think I got up to about 13. At one point, I actually started wondering if I was ever going to wake up, and that&#39;s a shitty feeling.
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      i&#39;ve had 6 in a row once. It was weird, everytime I would wake up and go to school as if I really had woken up with slight changes each time. To me it was very frustrating.
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      I had 2 false awakenings, one after the other, then my clock went off. Crap is, I had so, SO many possible RCs during that time.

      FAS are some of the best opportunities for RCs by the way.
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