LD's increasing in strength?

[cirenosille]

I've been getting increasingly more intense lucid dreams as this week has been going on. The part that gets me is the moment before awakening. Sunday night I was having a dream where I was hanging out with this cute girl, just watching some tv. Near the end of the dream I was sitting indian style and she was slightly sitting on one foot. During the dream, like any other LD i suppose, I felt everything. The couch I was sitting on, her pressure on my foot, and so on. Well, i woke up still feeling the pressure on my foot. Monday night I had another LD where towards the end of the dream I was swimming in a pool. Right before waking up, I started choking on water in the dream, but then as I awoke I was coughing and my pillow was wet with drool (or at least that's the logical explaination). I flipped the pillow over and went back to sleep. Nothing happened Tuesday night as I didn't get too great of sleep. Last night was pretty intense because everything was so utterly real that I was very confused waking up in a strange apartment, not my own (i guess it was a false awakening). I couldn't figure out how I got there because I still knew what my partment looked like, and I knew the one i was in wasn't it. Anyways, at the very last part of the dream I started to sit down to take a nap, and as I fell asleep in the dream I woke up in real life. After last night/this morning I had to post something. Has anyone else has these strange wake ups?

[spockman]

Wake ups or FAs (false awakenings) happen occasionally. Once I had over twelve in a row. I didn't start to becoem Lucid till about the 7th time. (stubborn, I know.) I kept getting killed in the dream and whenever I died I woke up (falsley.) By the time I became Lucid I had been killed so many times I was very scared and lost confidence. I kept trying to dispell it but she was able to remain unphased and kill me 5 more times. I had no control at all. Sometimes FAs are a blessing, (a twofer Lucid dream!) but sometimes they can just be heck in a handbasket because they make you uncertain about yourself. Don't worry about it, though. Everyone has them and I'm sure you'll have many more. I hpe most of them are pleseant for you.

[cirenosille]

Sounds like you had a bizare dream there with so many FA's. As weird as it may sound, though, I enjoy the scary LD's as well, because they are lucid. Although this is one of the first time's i've had a false awakening. The thing that gets me about these last few nights is the true wake up and how the dreams just about bled into real life. The pressure on my foot, the coughing up water in my dream (spittle in real life), Then the odd sensation that when i went to sleep in my dream last night I awoke, as if my waking life was my dreaming life's... dream.