Thread: False awaking

Quite often this happens to me: I am dreaming in an often semi-lucid fashion, and false awake. I'm in the area I sleep, and usually feel kinda anxious. I may roll around tirelessly on the ground, fall off my bed, or have weird twitches in my legs that build on the anxiety all still within my false awakening.

Then I go back to sleep in the dream, believing that I can control my dream. I feel I am having a very conscious driven dream, all the while aware of where I am and that I am dreaming, only to actually awake later and realize I was not controlling my dream, but that my dream self was controlling it's dream... Generally I just feel messy in my head afterwards.


This experience is often recurring. Does anyone else experience something like this? I find it sort of stressful and tiring, if not confusing.

Yeah, this happens for me as well, and quite often. Once I was dreaming something, the I had a false awakening in the dream, ie, I was dreaming that I was having a false awakening. I had this third person view, and I tried to FILD, which was successful. After that, i ended up in a lucid dream with above normal clarity and awareness. These types of dreams often reoccur for me. So don't worry, if you end up in a false awakening in a dream, try and move about, which will probably get you lucid. If you dream that you are lucid dreaming, then it's fine, it will be a normal lucid dream as lucid dreaming in a dream would just be a change of scenario and awareness, and you will find that YOU are controlling that lucid dream. Just have fun!

Happens to me often :S
Last night I had 2 DEILDs, but in both I had a chain of false awakenings which didn't let me do anything. I had to stabilize every time I had a FA, and didn't enjoy my lucids =(

I see, I imagine reading these responses and and thinking about them may help me next time as I bring what I've experienced in real life into my dreams.

It happened to me again last night. I actually dreamed about lucid dreaming, and thought I was awake and controlling them, but I'm not sure I actually was. It's hard to explain, yet I imagine you probably all get it. I just hate the stressful feelings I carry with me after I wake up. Like I haven't been sleeping the whole time.

Heh, I know that feeling. Somehow, the control seems unoriginal, if you get what I mean. Because it feels like your dream body is controlling your.....uh, dream dream body. Not yourself.
When I first had that dream, I was pretty messed up, too. I try to think while in a lucid dream in a dream that, this is only a change of the scenario, etc. Something to make me realize that there is no such thing as falling asleep then your dream body falling asleep and THENhaving a lucid. Just try not to think about the underlined part or try to believe it's impossible and after a little practice, you will find that you have control similar to, if not better than, a normal LD.