Yes I have experienced things similar several times, in fact my last WILD started with a false awakening. After some 30 minutes of the rope method I 'woke up' and there was this grey cat in my room, but I thought I had made sure all of the windows and doors were shut. I lost consciousness for a moment and then had another false awakening, this time I sensed a very creepy presence in the corner of the room, but when I looked I didn't see anything. This constituted a lapse of awareness or memory on my part, if I was fully aware I would have recognised how ridicules these things were, there visual clarity tricked me into thinking it was real while they were occurring. Eventually I came to my senses and continued doing the rope technique (which was actually unnecessary because the dream was already underway, another example of me being taken by the realism of the false awakening.), when I felt myself floating upward I knew I was fare enough in the dream state to get up on my own accord, jumped out the window and started the lucid dream. I knew my focus was still wavering when I was walking around outside, so I repeated to myself "I'm dreaming" over and over and rubbed my hands together, after doing this my awareness was fine. |
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