Hello and my first false awakening story..

Hello everyone :-)

I've decided to join these forums as I would like to become a regular lucid dreamer and I recently watched a documentary on lucid dreaming and had an experience last night that I think I remember was a good sign from the documentary.

I have been interested in lucid dreaming since I was a child and I have a very vague memory of acheiving it once where I chose to fly, (like I understand alot of people do lol) but nothing since and have not really tried any more.

Since watching this documentary I have been trying the technique of checking if I am awake by trying to push my finger through my palm and stretching my finger. To be honest I keep forgetting a lot during the daytime and haven't been keeping up with the checks at all really but I have noticed I have been having A LOT more dreams recently. (I'm not sure if this is related or just coincidence)

Anyway last night I had what I beleive to be a false awakening, I was also aware that it didn't seem quite right and even attempted to wake myself up properly. My clock is out of sync due to the electricity cutting out yesterday but before I went to bed I didn't bother resetting it, just checked what the out of sync time should be around 5/6 am so I know when to get up.

In my dream I woke up at the very start of sunrise, still dark but could see the light colour in the sky. At this time I didn't attempt to wake myself, I just assumed I had got my real time/out of synce clock maths wrong and got out of bed to check. When I realised the time was correct I noticed a light out of my back door and it was some kind of low flying helicopter which disappeared quite quickly, I assumed it was that making it look like the start of sunrise and went back to bed. (maybe should've figured it out there lol)

I then had a second awakening, this time it was full blown daylight and I knew something was up, I knew I was in a dream and tried to snap myself out of it. That bit was quite vague and I don't remember what I did but I know I tried a few times to wake myself up properly. After that I guess I must've just assumed I had woken myself up because it wen't in to a very long vivid dream starting in my flat which looked just how it looks now then continuing outside which didn't look so familiar. (I won't bore you with the details)

I guess the simple question is, is this a good sign?
Is there anything I can do to help me enter a lucid if this happens again?

Just looking for advice and opinions based on experience really.

:welcome: to DreamViews!

Thinking more about dreams, watching shows about them, etc can make you remember more of your dreams. Start writing them down into a dream journal. Paper or use our DJ system.

Going to sleep with some intent can give you false awakening. Like when I intent to not sleep too long and to get up to check my email, or I don't set my alarm so I keep waking up to check the time, both of those scenarios gave me FAs.

All of that is a good sign indeed. It means that your mind is paying attention to your desire to have a LD and to remember your dreams and it's doing it's best to accomodate you.

Induction Methods and Techniques
http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html

Check out the tutorials and let us know if you need anything. Happy dreams.

Thank you for your reply, sorry I've taken so long to respond to your message, I've been a bit busy.

Your post makes a lot of sense, my phone has broken and I'm waiting for my upgrade so I haven't had access to an alarm for the past month or so. Since then I have been having a lot more dreams that I can remember. I'm having 2 or 3 dreams per night that I can remember and I am going to start a dream journal soon, even if it doesn't help it would be really interesting to look back on.

Since my post I actually realised I was in a dream, unfortunately I woke up instantly :-( I can't remember what happened in the dream or why I realised it was a dream but I remember saying in my head "I'm in a dream", then of course I was disappointed that I was awake seconds after. I'm sure this is progress though and I hope to LD soon.

Thank you for the tutorial links, I'll be sure to check them out and see if I can make even further progress. :-)