Hey! Welcome to DV!
No need to be scared of waking up multiple times, these are called false awakenings.
A false awakening is when you think you wake up, but it's actually still a dream. These are actually a godsend for LD'ing because you can use them to easily enter a lucid dream by doing a reality check as you wake up.
Once you're in a lucid dream, you can take control and just do whatever you want (like use a flamethrower on that spider!)
Don't worry if you wake up and can't move, this is pretty normal. It's called sleep paralysis, and happens when you fall asleep to stop your body acting out your dreams.
A good tip I found is to vary your breathing rate, to let your body know that you are not asleep anymore and turn off paralysis. Or you can chill out and enter a lucid dream.
Basically have a look around the forum, learning more is always helpful. When experiencing cyclical/false awakening dreams, relax; keep in mind it's probably a dream, do a reality check (to test if its a dream) like trying to breath with your mouth and nose closed. Hopefully this will turn into a cool lucid!
Finally if you wake up in sleep paralysis, keep calm and go back to the dream, or exit by waiting a while and varying breathing.
Hope this helped, PM me if I didn't explain something clearly enough. See ya!
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