False Wakenings?

[b4ckwash]

I heard these are quite common when you become Lucid. What happens when you falsely wake up? Do you think your actually awake and everything is perfectly normal? What properly wakes you up? Man this idea creeps me out, I remember one childhood dream, I thought I woke up and then it turned into a nightmare the monster thing ate my sheets so I had no where to hide and then I just closed my eyes, woke up (for real) screaming and took ages to convince myself it was real. Very bad experiece which I dont want to relive and i dont think trying to be lucid is worth going through this experience again. Really sketchy, was anyone else a bit unsure like me? What helps?

[Jimmie Lynne]

I heard these are quite common when you become Lucid. What happens when you falsely wake up? Do you think your actually awake and everything is perfectly normal? What properly wakes you up? Man this idea creeps me out, I remember one childhood dream, I thought I woke up and then it turned into a nightmare the monster thing ate my sheets so I had no where to hide and then I just closed my eyes, woke up (for real) screaming and took ages to convince myself it was real. Very bad experiece which I dont want to relive and i dont think trying to be lucid is worth going through this experience again. Really sketchy, was anyone else a bit unsure like me? What helps? [/b] A false awakening is pretty much just that. You suddenly find yourself "waking" up in your own bed. What usually happens is people "go back to sleep", slip back into normal dreams and sometimes don't even realize that the false awakening was just that. . . if you're worried about having a negative experience with false awakenings, there's a simple way to prevent it. Everytime you wake up do a reality check. That way if you do have a false awakening you'll realize it immediately. False awakenings are very common with beginning lucid dreamers. I'd say it's probable that you will have one at some point. There's no reason at all to be afraid of them. They can very occasionly cause experiences like the one you mentioned, but usually they're just a nuisance.

[b4ckwash]

What would I do, I wanna be prepared. So some stuff I could do: Theres a pad and a pen I use for a dream journal on a chair close to my bed, I could write on it and check the writing all good every morning I wake so that i know its real. I don&#39;t really have anything else to check hmm, maybe turn on my stereo right beside my bed? But this could probably cause some creepy noises or something disturbing > <? Ahh yeah, alarm clock will be a good one eh, check and double check the time. This still creeps me out... Do you guys find yourself confronted by stuff you cant control in lucid dreams? Like a lucid nightmare, is that possible that your aware its a dream but you cant exert your will on it, like when you cant talk and run etc. Im pretty sure i&#39;ve been semi lucid in some nightmares, I remember I used to close my eyes and think really hard in the nightmare to get rid of them sometimes, it worked but I didnt remember to do it every time. I got the jitters cos this stuff seems supernatural/weird and creeps me out and yet... so curious haha.