How to wake your self up from a dream?

Hey guys, I don't know if this is in the right thread but I'm trying to ask this question. I've had several of dreams where I could never wake my self up. The dream would just continue until something wakes me up. I have also had vivid dreams that I tried to force my self to wake up from. But I can't seem to wake up from the dream as well. Same thing happens to normal dreams. Sometimes I have failed to wake up. It feels like something is holding me back in the dream from waking up until something deadly happens to me in the dream or if something exciting happens to me in the dream. And now as for Lucids. How can you wake your self up from a Lucid Dream? I really want to get into this. I am reading tutorials on this site. But I have no clue on how to wake my self up from a Lucid Dream. I'm afraid, If I do have a Lucid Dream. I wouldn't know what to do to wake my self up. And as for False Awakenings. How can you wake your self up from those?

I readed about a method. If you focus your eyes some close object and dont move them you will wake up.

You can kill yourself ( What I used to do when I wanted to wake up from nightmares ) Or just expect yourself to wake up.

When I was a kid I used to close my eyes for a couple of seconds and imagine laying in my bed and when I would open my eyes, I would open my real ones.

If you don't mind me asking, why are you wanting to wake up from your dreams? Are you having nightmares or are you just experimenting? Remember, as scary as it may seem nothing can harm you in a dream. If there is an evil clown in front of you, don't get scared and run. Confront it. Or, if it makes you feel better, sock it in the mouth :).

Something that never fails to wake me up is thinking about my body lying in bed. Think about the exact position you're lying in, maybe even try to get into that position in the dream. Heavy blinking sometimes works too.

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Originally Posted by Skarr

Hey guys, I don't know if this is in the right thread but I'm trying to ask this question. I've had several of dreams where I could never wake my self up. The dream would just continue until something wakes me up. I have also had vivid dreams that I tried to force my self to wake up from. But I can't seem to wake up from the dream as well. Same thing happens to normal dreams. Sometimes I have failed to wake up. It feels like something is holding me back in the dream from waking up until something deadly happens to me in the dream or if something exciting happens to me in the dream. And now as for Lucids. How can you wake your self up from a Lucid Dream? I really want to get into this. I am reading tutorials on this site. But I have no clue on how to wake my self up from a Lucid Dream. I'm afraid, If I do have a Lucid Dream. I wouldn't know what to do to wake my self up. And as for False Awakenings. How can you wake your self up from those?

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hi there you could try my way :) always worked ever since i was a child i would just close my eyes whilst dreaming and it would wake me up
everytime !

not sure if this will work for everyone but i have used it for as long as i can remeber good luck hope this helps

you may not have a strong enough connection between your dream mind and your wakened mind. Essentially the same but in our dreams we tend to separate our selves. It's this separation you need to disregard, by making a better connection.

Like i've recommended for so many others, meditation. Spend some time just clearing your mind., and broaden your senses. Try to grasp a more thorough hold on them. Possibly practice it by taking naps at planned times during certain days.

I have no problem waking myself in a dream, though i used to be plagued by false awakenings a lot. I've had a dream which resulted in 10 false awakenings once, it was the worst dream ever because i honestly thought i was trapped in it. This was before i started meditating.

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Originally Posted by MementoMori

Possibly practice it by taking naps at planned times during certain days.

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Sounds kind of funny: "I'm not napping, I'm meditating at a planned time" lol

As mentioned above ^^ try to eliminate the separation of the waking and dreaming states. If you believe you will wake up in a dream, then you will. Remember, you can do anything you put your mind to in the dream, so have confidence about waking up. I don't see why someone would want to wake up, but I guess we all have our own reasons ;)

peace :shadewink: ,
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Originally Posted by Willowleaf

Sounds kind of funny: "I'm not napping, I'm meditating at a planned time" lol

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i meant meditate, then take a nap with a cleared mind set on your goal of achieving lucidity then waking yourself from the dream.

I was just joking, but yea I understand what you mean, sorry if I offended you.

no not at all :D

Yeah I heard that while in the dream, going to bed to wake up works. ;)

Think about yourself lying in bed and imagine the feeling of your covers, clothing, etcetera.
Beware of a false awakening, though. If it doesn't work the first time, keep trying.

Just think about waking up and "just do it" a bit hard to describe, think about your phisical body and it's world and feel for it lying in bed, just keep it in your mind and you'll probably wake up pretty quickly, if it doesn't work just keep the idea you've got a phisical body and your going back to it and it's pulling you back up in mind. Once your used to the feeling of waking up from a dream you should be able to recreate it at will, to me it feels vaguely like pulling myself up back into something.

Presumably you need to be aware that your dreaming inorder to deliberately wake your self up from it so any dream you deliberately even attempt to wake your self up from is a lucid dream.

I have always just willed myself awake. Never had a problem. False awakenings have generally been easy to recognize for me.

I just close my eyes and voila! I'm awake. That's why I never blink in a lucid dream.

The first quality lucid that I had, I ran around and had my fun and when I was ready to wake up. I simply said "ok, now wake up" and I woke up in the posture that you lay for the WILD method. (that is how I remember it)

Try opening your real eyes? That should wake you up!

I've never been able to wake myself up from dreams. I used to dream-suicide, but that doesn't work anymore. (My response to death in dreams: I heal the gaping hole in my head and stalk off to find the guy that shot me.)

FAs are a natural part of lucid dreaming (at least, for beginners). That shouldn't scare you. FAs, for the most part, are boring as hell. Even if you're lucid, you can either keep exploring the dream, or just wait to wake up for real. It's annoying if it's after a nightmare, but if you're lucid, calm down and wait to wake up. If you're not lucid, you'll probably just go about your incredibly boring day until you actually do wake up.

I think that if you force it, you can freak yourself out more. However, if waking yourself up is a skill you really want to learn (and I can see how it would be useful) the only way to master it is with practice.

Also, RC every time you wake up. If you get into the habit, you'll realize that you're dreaming every time you have a FA. Voila, shortcut to lucidity. FAs aren't scary - they're useful!

I wake myself up my jerking my neck toward the left and it works 99.99% of the time. The only time it didn't work was when I thought it wouldn't. Although I used to do this a lot to escape nightmares, they are actually one of the EASIEST ways to make an LD occur. You will always wake up out of a LD though and if you are really worried just set an alarm. I set an alarm 5 hours after I goto bed so I can wake up and directly go into REM and try to LD. If only I could fall asleep before 5 hrs...haha.

I suggest you are asking the wrong question. If you are trying to wake yourself up from a dream, you are lucid or at least semi-lucid. Control your dream, and enjoy it. So many people have a hard time staying in dreams, and you have the opposite problem!

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Originally Posted by Moose

I just close my eyes and voila! I'm awake. That's why I never blink in a lucid dream.

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i do the same as you :D works great dont you think ?

Ever since I was achild, I could wake myself up from dreams. Not always, but the skill has gotten easier. My father also, could do this since being a child. The technique is simple - I simply shake myself awake. Making your actual, physical body do things while you're asleep can be quite difficult. A spasmodic shake seems to be one of the easiest, basic things we can do in our real body when dreaming. If I don't like a dream, I sometimes say out loud that I'm going to wake up - then I simply shake myself awake.

I used to scrunch my eyes tightly for a few seconds, think and expect of waking up, and wrench them open. That was back since before I had LDs, but I did it quite a few times in semi-lucid moments of non-lucid nightmares.

As for dying, I can say personally it doesn't work. I faced a bunch of people coming to kill me once, and when I died, I collapsed and everything went black. When I opened my eyes I was in the middle of some lush valley near a random church. Definitely not where I fell asleep in the first place haha..

Oh staring at an object and not moving worked okay, too...try to focus on all meticulous detail, and it becomes sort of fuzzy. Well, for me anyways.

Well you want to open your eyes to wake up, right? So I do the opposite thing in the dream - I shut my eyes as hard as I can, somehow thats converted into opening my eyes in real life. Of course while thinking "wake up" hard aswell. I've never had any trouble waking myself up since early childhood, my nightmares taught me a bunch of things.

You know how when you have dreams that you are falling, and you wake up just as you hit the ground? You can use that to wake yourself up. You don't even have to fall from that great of a height. Collisions work well too.