Thread: Possible to be tricked?

Originally Posted by LucidFreedoM

Would it be possible to have a false awakening and not know (you think you just woke up normally..assuming of course you falsely awoke in your actual bed..otherwise you would obviously realise) and then just go about your morning routines not knowing it was all a dream?

Yeah, it happens sometimes, although usually something will be amiss or out of the ordinary. Like waking up to find that a) you can't open your eyes all the way and b) there are zombies in your house. Or something. That's my own personal example.

That's why it's good to do a reality check whenever you wake up AND whenever you see something out of order. I'd imagine it would phenomenally reduce your chances of being fooled by a false awakening.

I often have false awakenings. They usually happen when I'm dreading something that's going to happen that day, so that I sort of live through it in my dream.

It can be useful, but once I had a false awakening directly after a lucid, and the false awakening was so vivid that when I did actually wake up I went through the entire day questioning reality. Then I got all depressed and philosophical and started wondering if maybe everything is just a dream, and nothing we do really matters, and we can never be sure whether or not we're awake because of how vivid some dreams can be. That wasn't a good day for me.

The next day, however, I perked up, did some Internet searching, and found this site! So it wasn't all bad.