Hello fellow dreamers, I've been on this site for a while in the background, but I just started studying lucid dreaming about one week ago. I have a whole setup on my evo, and auto suggestion alarm and a program called 'Dream Flasher'. I have used this setup for the past few days and nothing was happening...until this morning!

So I'm in the dream and it's dark, my eyes are closed and I see bursts of flashing light. "I'm dreaming! I say to mysefl aloud in my head. And then I hear someone say in the background "No you're not, you were just sleeping, it was that flashing light!" I wake up, that someone is my cousin sitting in a chair across from the bed. So I'm awake, and sure enough there was the flashign light going off, only thing was the flashing light was actually a camera-like box with just this big flashig n light....not my evo phone.

My dream couldn't had made it more obvious that the 'Dream Flasher' was acually working, but my logical mind just wouldn't break. I didn't realize that it was a false awakening until later on when the dream actually ended and I was actually awake.

Lesson Learned - Always do a reality check right before you close your eyes to sleep and right after you open them to wake! That's the one thing I didn't learn to do and it cost me my first induced lucid dream, lol! I'll be ready next time.