Strings of lucid false awakenings aren't fun! (LONG POST, please read!)

[MJMax]

WARNING: This thread is going to be long as crap. Sorry, I can't help it. Dreams have lots of confusing details! There's a short version at the bottom, and I really appreciate any responses. Just pretend it's a poorly written short story, I guess. So this morning I woke up after about 7 hours of sleep to feed my dogs. Getting back into bed, I realized that I may have a chance to WILD from a WBTB. So I surfed my Dreamviews from my phone for a few minutes and went to bed. It's vague what happened near the beginning of my dream sequence. I do remember, however, a being in my bed and vibrating violently, then having a sense of flipping over, like falling off a chair. Perhaps this was sleep paralysis. I don't think so. I'll get back to that. At the beginning of my dream (or at least as far back as I can remember), I was in my room. I may have gone downstairs a few times, I don't really remember, it was vague. Eventually I did a reality check, the nose pinch and palm poke. I realized I was dreaming. I may not have had a complete sense of logic, though (I was thinking "What if my parents here me down here? Wait, I'm dreaming upstairs. Wait, how are they hearing me then?" for example. I was just really confused at the beginning of the dream I guess XD). But eventually, after a minute or two, I woke up. I was in my bed, immediately shut my eyes, stayed in the same position, and I violently shook and flipped once more. I woke up in my bed, thinking I just performed a successful DEILD. I did the nose reality check, and checked the reflection in the mirror, coming to the conclusion that I was dreaming. I, with some trouble, eventually went through my window and jumped outside. I couldn't successfully fly, no matter how many times I tried. (I think it's worth noting, though, that I did manage to fly with a car I found, by pulling up the steering wheel like in a plain. Unfortunately, the ground looked like the neighborhood in the Sims. ) I tried to get to a specific dream scene, but it was harder than expected. I knew that the dream could end any minute so I was trying to get somewhere fast. Before I could do much of anything, I woke up. Repeating the same keep eyes shut and return to dream sequence, I tried multiple times to get to a specific dream sequence, each time waking up in the dream world in my own bed. I couldn't seem to control much of the dream, getting to a specific area was a convoluted mess of talking to dream characters, driving random cars, etc. It was hard to change the scene (why did I forget about spinning >.<). I kept waking up after a few minutes of trying to do something with the lucid dream. But I could barely control anything! It consisted mostly of me trying to escape through my window and find some way to go somewhere else! One time when I returned to the dream and jumped out the window, I caught my feet on the windowsill and climbed back in, making sure to do another reality check in case I was really awake. I was dreaming. At the time I thought I was having a really long DEILD chain. I was wrong. It was really a false awakening chain. ---------------------TRANSITION to make the thread seem less long!!!------------------------ After the fifth time or so of "waking up," instead of shutting my eyes and returning to the dream to do a reality check, I decided to do a reality check when I woke up. I nose pinched, since it worked even in a dark room. To my surprise, I could breathe through my nose! From then on, when I woke up, I realized I wasn't really waking up, but instead having a false awakening. Going back to sleep in a false awakening wasn't doing anything but making vibrations! It would always wake me up in the same bed anyway. So for the next few times when I woke up, I would immediately do a reality check nose pinch, and I would be able to breathe. This scared me, I thought I'd never be able to wake up. Eventually, I just decided to try to wake myself up. I got scared after trying to wake myself up and just finding myself in bed in a dream once again. I wasn't thinking that logically, and to me it just seemed like I would be stuck in my dreams forever! I thought I'd never be able to wake up. Eventually I woke up for real. I looked at the clock, from the time I went back to sleep to the time I woke up, about 50 minutes had passed. Instantly I was thinking more logically, and realized the entire thing was just part of one, giant dream. No real awakenings, just a dream of becoming lucid and waking up over and over. It probably only happened eight or nine times in all. So back to when I said I thought it wasn't sleep paralysis that I went through. I think I was just dreaming of going through it. I think that if I could have only understood what was happening in the dream and stopped thinking about it, I could have moved on from it and had a normal lucid dream. I need to think more logically in my dreams so I can stop wasting the entire dream doing stupid things! Like tricking myself into thinking that lucidity is harder than it really is and that I would wake up in my bed any second! So, that was really long. Maybe I should make a TL;DR version. Sure. TL;DR version: I went to sleep after waking up from 7 hours of sleep. I had a chain of eight or nine short, short lucid dreams, thinking I was having a DEILD chain. Eventually I realized I was really having a chain of false awakenings, having little to no control and waking up in my bed. I wasn't thinking logically the whole dream, panicked, thought I was stuck in my dreams, but eventually woke up. So, any similar experiences?

[atkins513]

Well Yes and No. I haven't actually checked to see that they are false awakenings every time I do this but after reading your article im starting to think that I definitely should do RC's and maybe everyone here should take this very seriously... Because anytime I am in a dream scene and start fearing that I am going to wake up... Instantly I wake up in my bed kicking myself for thinking about waking up.. here is the part that makes a lot of sense.. When we have horrible dreams, the excitement, the fright, none of this wakes us up in real life... our heart is racing.. we are wanting to get out of this yet we never wake up... What makes us believe that we have this magic ability do over-ride REM and really wake up every time we want to? What is every damn time we wake up, or most of them, we are actually in false awakening just because we expected to wake up? I am going to watch myself on this one a lot more often and do RC's just to be sure every time I wake up from a LD unnaturally ..

[MJMax]

Well Yes and No. I haven't actually checked to see that they are false awakenings every time I do this but after reading your article im starting to think that I definitely should do RC's and maybe everyone here should take this very seriously... Because anytime I am in a dream scene and start fearing that I am going to wake up... Instantly I wake up in my bed kicking myself for thinking about waking up.. here is the part that makes a lot of sense.. When we have horrible dreams, the excitement, the fright, none of this wakes us up in real life... our heart is racing.. we are wanting to get out of this yet we never wake up... What makes us believe that we have this magic ability do over-ride REM and really wake up every time we want to? What is every damn time we wake up, or most of them, we are actually in false awakening just because we expected to wake up? I am going to watch myself on this one a lot more often and do RC's just to be sure every time I wake up from a LD unnaturally .. Yeah, maybe doing reality checks when you wake up from a dream or nightmare is a good idea. You might just become lucid from it.

[AndresLD]

Exact same thing happened to me once. I had a DILD, started to wake up, DEILDed back into the dream, then had a chain of about 10 false awakenings, I would wake up in my bed, pinch my nose and realized It was just a FA, then the new dream would last about 1 or 2 minutes, and suddenly I was back in my bed, still dreaming...

[MJMax]

Exact same thing happened to me once. I had a DILD, started to wake up, DEILDed back into the dream, then had a chain of about 10 false awakenings, I would wake up in my bed, pinch my nose and realized It was just a FA, then the new dream would last about 1 or 2 minutes, and suddenly I was back in my bed, still dreaming... Yep. Lol, good job summing up my massive page long description in two lines.

[Hukif]

Ah, those, don't worry about it, the problem seems to be you didn't stabilize after becoming lucid, good thing to RC after waking up every time, not only that, but it is also good to stabilize after RCing lol

[ooflendoodle]

my second lucid dream I thought hey I'm lucid again so I thought about needing to remember this when I woke up and well you can guess what happened next when I went to write it down I didn't think it was weird that the cup I keep writing stuff in that is normally full to bursting only had one pen in it or that it was uber hard to write (I normally re read my work as I'm writing to make sure it makes sense or there are no typos). Then when I woke up and it all became very clear lol.