FA Blanket of Death. -_-

[Oneironaut Zero]

Excerpt from last night's journal entry. 03/02/2006 "Doom Island Recall" A lot went on last night. Not even sure if I recall each scenario, but 2 of them stick out. The first one actually had a dream before it, but the dream is completely lost. All I know is it took place in my old Canterbury house. (I wonder why most of my "at home" dreams take place there.) Anyway, after the dream, I had a really fucked up series of False Awakenings. A good 10-15 in a row, which is a record for me. What happened was, I woke up from the previous dream with my face partially covered by my blanket. I was laying on my side, and the blanket came up just to where it covered my eyes, and the top of my head was sticking out. So, trying to see what time it was, I reached up and took hold of the blanket with one hand, but when I pulled it down, the blanket was somehow still over my eyes. I'm like "wtf?" and I reach up to pull it down again and I can feel myself pulling the fabric away from my face, but the blanket would Still block my vision. It wasn't just darkness. I could see the designs on the underside of the blanket as well. Now, the f'cked up thing is; the second or third time this happened, I realized that these were just false awakenings, and that I was dreaming. But I was getting So Annoyed at having my face relentlessly covered by this damn blanket, that I kept trying to wake myself up instead of taking advantage of being lucid. I didn't even stop to really think "wow I'm lucid." It was more "DAMNIT ANOTHER FALSE AWAKENING?! GET THIS G'DAMN BLANKET OFF OF ME!!" :sweat2: Sooooooooo...I spent the next 12 or 13 False Awakenings trying to will myself awake, only to wake up, find the blanket over my eyes, pull it down with my hand, and still not be able to move this sort of 'ghost blanket' that was covering my face, only to try to will myself awake and go through the same damn thing over and over again. Sooner or later I woke up for real and spent a good five minutes on reality checks before going back to bed. lol Second session continued in journal...

[irishcream]

Hey, that's a really horrible experience you had there...my boyfriend had a similar thing where he kept trying to call me over and over, and every time he had an FA, he was convinced he was awake! I think he did that for about an hour straight, until i phoned him and busted the cycle... Horrid experience, i've never heard him so terrified.

[Oneironaut Zero]

Yeah, FA's have always kind freaked me out. Just the concept of them. I mean, you can wake up, go about your day, open a door and have your entire world turn into a nightmare instantly. On the other hand, they do make good LD inducers, but I don't know if it's a fair trade. Lol. This one wasn't too scary because I was able to figure out what was going on after the first 2 or 3 times it was just....agitating, more than anything else. But I can see how what happened to your boyfriend was freaky. I've had some FA"s that replayed over and over before I woke up, and didn't know they were FA's until I finally did. Those can be terrifying.

[eidahl]

Er, wow, that's a lot of FAs. I've actually never had an FA or at least, I don't remember ever having any. <--- a bit jealous..

[computernerd90]

I had only a few FAs, but one I can clearly remember was actually pretty close to that one Oneironaut. I had a blanket mostly over my face, but I could see my TV. I tried pulling the blanket over, but for some reason it was really heavy, so I just fell back down. Then I really woke up.

[Burns]

The very first FA I remember was when I was about 8 years old. I was very thirsty but didn't want to get down from the top bunk of my bunkbed to get a drink. I kept having FAs that someone would bring me water, or I'd get up and get it and was now snug back in bed. I can't remember what happened after that, if I just went and got it finally or what, but I remember the feeling very clearly. I don't have that many FAs now - only about 1 or 2 a month, and they usually don't last for very long. I can see why someone would get extremely flipped out, though - it's an uneasy feeling.

[[Alpha]-0mega-]

The only FA-styled awakenings I ever have are normal ones.. with odd things in them. Like once I woke up in my bed, just wen't downstairs and everything had this grimmy look (and in my FA I felt tired as hell, and I knew I was lucid.) Anyway, when downstairs I went to my old bedroom (I swapped to a bigger room) and oddity 1: my bed was still hanging there (while my other, which practically is the same bed, was upstairs.). After that I just walked to the window slowly, my mom wasn't home yet in that FA, and looked outside. and it was snowing and it appeared to be as if the floor I was on, was ground floor (while it in reality is 2nd floor, or whatever you call it if there's 2 stairs to climb). Anyway, it was one of my first so I tried to slowmorph a girl into my dream, but when my mom came home and the girl appeared for like 20% or more, somehow I slipped away (tiredness?) And the lucid part went away , nothing else happened really, everything slowly faded out and I woke up. So not really anything exciting for a FA.

[Oneironaut Zero]

Yeah, I'm usually the same way, burns. I only have them about once or twice a month, if that. But that's enough for me. Lol. My subconscious is already a sneaky enough bastard without getting the element of surprise advantage of FA's. lol. :sweat1: So computernerd, if you're jealous...don't be. Heh. I mean, some of them are cool, but they are just Strange Strange experiences, when you have them. And Omega, I would have had a long hard talk with mom about her timing.

[computernerd90]

naw, i aint.I just remembered another one of my FAs, and it really sucked. I got up and looked out of my window, and I saw my parents and their friends with a hammer jammed into their nose by the hook end. sucked really hard. i never really had much FAs in my life, probly 5 at most. dont matter to me, i like actually waking up, it's how i've done some of my LDs