First False Awakening

[will.i.am]

Go me! I had my first false awakening! I woke up in my room and it was still dark out but my fish tank was on. (I turn it off before I go to bed) So I went over and watched the fish for a while. I don't remember what happened from there but later, I had another false awakening! Yeah, two in a row! It was cool

[Lowercase Society]

I remember when i had my first one, it got pretty confusing...because i got up and 'wrote down the dream in my dream journal' and then woke up from that and looked for the dream, and it wasn't there! anyway, i think they are interesting to an extent, if you have like 15 then it gets strange and scarry.

[Tjhands]

They really are the strangest things, aren't they? I've gotten pretty good at it over the years, but there are still times when I'm not quite sure if I'm actually awake or still dreaming! A sure-fire way of telling is by looking at a digital clock or wristwatch. My alarm clock is digital, so I look at it, then look away, then look back. If it changes from 6:20 to something like 45:231, you know for a factamundo that you are dreaming! Here's another, probably the MOST reliable method......if you wonder whether you are dreaming or not, you probably ARE! Never, ever have I truly wondered if I was sleeping when I was actually AWAKE! I think most people would agree with that.

[Seeker]

ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS do a reality check when you wake from a lucid dream. I've found that for me, at least 50% are false awakenings.

[Ev]

My last false awakening was very weird. I woke up on a bench in a bathroom in a school, I attended in another country! And it seemed perfectly ok. I felt like I had reeeeaally bad hangover...

[Lowercase Society]

Originally posted by Tjhands you know for a factamundo . WOAH! cool ass word!

[|)347|-|]

Agreements with seeker ALWAYS RC i had a false awakining and I got as far as going to school before i realized i was dreaming. It was really wierd tho because i have never.....holey shit I have to write about this!!!!!

[nerve]

Originally posted by Seeker ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS do a reality check when you wake from a lucid dream. not just lucid ones, all dreams.

[Alaurast78]

Originally posted by |)347|-| Agreements with seeker ALWAYS RC i had a false awakining and I got as far as going to school before i realized i was dreaming. It was really wierd tho because i have never.....holey shit I have to write about this!!!!! Hehe you were talking about what I was thinking... I was wondering if anyone had a false awakining where they got up and got ready for work/school/whatever and then realized they were dreaming on the way out the door? Never had that happen but I could imagine it would be crazy trippy!

[ArtistOfMayhem]

I'm new to lucid dreaming and I also experienced my first false awakening recently - two in a row, actually. I became lucid and immediately "woke up" in my bed, but the ceiling was that of my old house, where I lived a year ago. I recognized that I was dreaming and had a really hard time getting out of bed. When I did, I felt myself beginning to wake up so I did the spinning technique and got a hold of it again. I decided to test if I was dreaming by jumping through my bedroom door (could've been embarrassing if I wasn't really dreaming), and had another false awakening. This time I was "awoken" by my boxing trainer coming in my room and asking to borrow socks (?), and noticed 4 old people eating breakfast at the foot of my bed. Despite all this, I still took out my dream journal and attempted to write down the lucid dream before it, but I was too distracted. It's equally amazing and frustrating that it's possible to realize you're dreaming because of something as insignificant as the way a ceiling looks, and be completely oblivious when the most bizarre things imaginable are going on. Oh well, practice makes perfect (I hope). I read somewhere that false awakenings are more common among lucid dreamers. Anyone have any idea why this is so?

[Naruto]

Hey Congrats! I remember my first awakening like it was years ago... Even though it was like a month ago.. But I had two in one night