Thread: False Awakening and SP question

Hello, I've been reading around these forums for awhile, this is my first post though. I have been working on dream recall and the body asleep mind awake thing for the past several weeks. I have never had a LD, and my dream recall itself is pretty bad. I did start a dream journal, but like alot of people, I have a hard time getting up to write in it.

Anyways my question is about SP.. I woke up several times last night, and after each time, I tried to count and concentrate on letting my body fall asleep. Each time I would either let my mind wonder off and give up, or just fall asleep. Well I woke up around 4ish probably, and felt my body was numb, so I thought I'd try it once more, and almost immediately felt a vibration over my entire body. It felt amazing, and I really have no other way of describing it, it was one of the best feelings I've ever had.. During that period I knew what was happening, only from reading here, so I tried to not get too excited and just let it finish. After what seemed like only 30seconds to a minute, I was sure it was over, so I remembered the next step was to try to roll out of my body in my mind, not physically.

As soon as I did that, I was in a dream, but did not realize it at the time. My dream was that I had woken up and started to get ready for work. I did think to check all of the clocks, because all of the times were different. I was trying to figure out if I was really late for work, or if I was dreaming. The next thing I know, I'm laying in bad awake. Is that what most people would describe as a false awakening?

My even bigger question is about SP. It seems like I was asleep, woke up for a second, THEN entered SP. So every time you're asleep, are you not necessarily in SP? Sorry for the long first post, I'm just excited about what I felt, and hopefully it's a sign that I'm getting very close to having a LD, or at least being able to enter SP a little easier.