False Awakenings

[joseph1594]

Is there any easy way to dream of a false awakening? The reason is false awakenings offer many reality checks and many ways to enter environments assuming that I wake up in my "house".

[Abra]

False awakenings rock. Sadly, there isn't a surefire method to induce them. Sometimes they can be triggered by natural light entering the room (I experience more of them when I don't use a sleep mask). Other times they occur just after lucidity sets in (the brain thinks that "Ah! We are becoming more logical! That must mean we are awake! So I better make it look like we're awake!"). Dreams are often a product of what we think about or do a few hours (or even days) before bed. Perhaps during a wake-back-to-bed period, you could practice the false awakening scenario a few times (with a ton of reality checks). If that doesn't produce a false awakening, at least it will help integrate all those reality checks into the dream!

[Queen SD]

Well i know a sure method to induce FAs, at least it works for me. Get lucid, that's all it takes. As soon as you think "oh yeah, finaly a lucid dream", guess what? FALSE AWAKENING! Of course i don't think that was exactly what you had in mind but still You can always try autosuggestion, going to sleep and saying "i will have a FA tonight"

[Barns]

I'm wondering why you want to have a false awakening.

[joseph1594]

The reason is false awakenings offer many reality checks and many ways to enter environments assuming that I wake up in my "house".

[DrTechnical]

many people report that Lucid dream masks such as the Nova Dreamer or REM dreamer tend to induce false awakenings. They do for me.

[Thylacoleo]

Well i know a sure method to induce FAs, at least it works for me. Get lucid, that's all it takes. As soon as you think "oh yeah, finaly a lucid dream", guess what? FALSE AWAKENING! Of course i don't think that was exactly what you had in mind but still Same here. Most of my lucid dream were in fact lucid false awakenings. -Tl

[Jetu]

Long ago, Before I came onto this site, I have had a False Awakening, But stupid me. I got up looked out the window, then went back to my bed and went to sleep, only to awaken for real right after. xD

[antiflag]

Is there any easy way to dream of a false awakening? The reason is false awakenings offer many reality checks and many ways to enter environments assuming that I wake up in my "house". I have read my dream journal twice before I went to bed. both of those nights I had a false awakening and became lucid It wasn't a very good lucid dream because i faded out of both of them but I guess thats my fault for not rubbing my hands together