Thread: false awakening help?

A false awakening can be a prime time for having a lucid dream. If you can get in the habit of doing a reality check when you first get out of bed, you can identify immediately whether or not you're having a false awakening. If you do not do a reality check and assume that you really are awake, only to find out later that you indeed were still dreaming, you can feel like you've been "cheated" out of a lucid dream.

Thanks for the help once again! You make sense with everything you say. I love it.

Also, would it help any if I did a reality check say every 30 minutes or hour?

Originally posted by WindsOfPlague
Also, would it help any if I did a reality check say every 30 minutes or hour?

It might. The idea is to get yourself so in the habit of doing RCs that you will do them in your dreams, and hence realize that you're dreaming. I've never had much luck with that myself, but other people seem to.

More important than the frequency of yoru reality checks, is the investment of thought you put into it. When you do a reality check, be ver serious and think ahrd on it. Dont "run through the motions"

Awsome. Thank you for the help. I'll see how it works.

Originally posted by Barbizzle
More important than the frequency of yoru reality checks, is the investment of thought you put into it. *When you do a reality check, be ver serious and think ahrd on it. *Dont \"run through the motions\"

I agree. If you just get yourself accustomed to performing the check and having it fail, you'll get the same results in your dreams. Every time you do a reality check, think of where you are, how you got there, what you're doing and why you're doing it. Think of where you are in your day, and what obligations you have for the day. Remember which ones you've done and which ones you still have to do. If you come up with a blank, that's a pretty sure sign you're dreaming.