WILD false awakenings

[Who I Am]

Sometimes when I am WILDing, I lose consciousness for a just a moment and then experience a lucid false awakening. Sometimes I awaken in my room where I physically am,... (astral projection, (walk through walls),… etc.),... but I usually wake up somewhere else, in other rooms, always different, which are also mine. Does anyone else have those?

[Who I Am]

One nice thing about the WILD false awakenings, is that there is no boundary or edge. When I have those kind, I don’t experience the spinning or hallucinations normally associated with WILDing, at the cross over point. It’s hard to tell whether I lost consciousness for a moment, or not. All I know is,… one moment I’m here, and the next moment I’m there. I wonder what/where "my other rooms are"? It must be an awful large house!

[Robot_Butler]

I'm glad you posted this. I have the same thing happen extremely often when I WILD. I used to think this meant that my WILD failed, and I just fell asleep. The more I think about it, the more I realize this is very common for me. I lose consciousness for a while, then drop directly into the lucid. Sometimes there is a brief flash of a dream inbetween, and sometimes there is a FA in there somewhere. It happens so much, I just sort of expect it now. I used to classify this as a WILD turning into a MILD by accident. I'm still not so sure.

[Axel]

Most likely any type of wake induced lucid dream will have you "waking up" in your dream. Well that's the theory i've made...

[aceboy]

the bad thing is i dont know when thiers a false awakening and you gamble of losing a DEILD if you check.

[ninja9578]

Most WILDs start with a false awakening.

[Dash]

I find that to be true with most of my LD's. btw lol @ your avatar aceboy.

[Who I Am]

O.K. thanks for the replies. Do you think that consciousness is lost for a moment before the false awakening? If so, wouldn't that disqualify it as a WILD, even though it's the same basic technique? Again though, I'm not sure if consciousness is lost for a moment or not, just curious what you think. Other WILD experiences are different for me, no false awakening... or lapse in consciousness.

[Who I Am]

Most likely any type of wake induced lucid dream will have you "waking up" in your dream. Well that's the theory i've made... True,... but in these WILD F.A.s, I'm waking up in bed, somewhere else, in another room... lucid.

[Vex Kitten]

I usually experience the 'wake up' when I WILD. Except there is no loss of consciousness. I usually wonder if I'm dreaming yet and if I am my eyes suddenly pop open and I'm completely lucid, still laying in the same bed in the same position as I fell asleep. A couple of times when I realized I was dreaming in the middle of a dream, as soon as I hit that realization I 'woke up' in my room and continued to dream in that environment.

[aceboy]

i heard to check for a false awakening you can try to push your tongue through your mouth, is this a good check?will it ruin my chances at a LD if its not a false awakening?

[Vex Kitten]

i heard to check for a false awakening you can try to push your tongue through your mouth, is this a good check?will it ruin my chances at a LD if its not a false awakening? I've never tried that and will remember to. That sounds like it'd be an interesting experience. I've heard you're not supposed to move while trying to WILD so trying to push your tongue through your cheek might hinder your WILD progress. I can't say for sure though since I've never tried it. Moonbeam suggested floating as a reality check a while back and I use that. If I'm not entirely sure if I'm 'asleep' enough to venture off the bed I simply will myself to float upward. Or something else I've tried was to will myself to sink into the bed and free fall into a dream from there. In both cases, you don't have to physically move to reality check and if it works there is not doubt whatsoever that you're dreaming.

[Who I Am]

I think I might have just figured something out. You guys helped,... thanks! I see two distinctly different types of WILDS. One type involves a "wake up" and the other type doesn't. I see now that there is a difference in the techniques,... at least for me. In the "wake up" type, to keep from loosing consciousness, I am "listening" (to my inner voice). In the "non-wake up" type I'm "looking", into what would be my visual field (with eyes closed and the lights out). In this type, first I just see random isolated images and forms, then as I drift deeper an environment materializes, and next my dream body materializes in it. It's straight in with no "wake up" sensation and no lapse in consciousness...

[Vex Kitten]

In the "non-wake up" type I'm "looking", into what would be my visual field (with eyes closed and the lights out). In this type, first I just see random isolated images and forms, then as I drift deeper an environment materializes, and next my dream body materializes in it. It's straight in with no "wake up" sensation and no lapse in consciousness... Those are the types of WILDs I first experienced when I started seriously trying to lucid dream. I'd watch my HI until I was either pulled into a dream or the dream scene just fell about me. I don't know when the switch over happened exactly but I eventually started getting the 'wake up' WILDS. More often than not, these are the kind of WILDs I experience now.