False awakenings suck

So, last night I had my first lucid dream since I joined this site and since I kept a DJ, it took me 9 days to get a lucid dream. :banana:

It started with me and two skater boys, we went to this party a friend was having, I really didn't recognize the boys from real life, and the girl having the party wasn't even a friend of mine.
Everything in my dream was made of concrete and glass, well, the buildings that is.

I'll just skip to the part where I am becoming lucid. I enter the party room and glanced around, seeing some old friends of mine from school (Just before that I had to use the restroom, So I was still trying to find it) I saw this boy I use to have a crush on and I thought "Oh I'll just come back after I'm done with the restroom so I can mess with him" I think I had already became lucid than, because I wouldn't have bothered him if it was a normal dream. Once I found the restroom I woke up(not a false awakening), fell back asleep and found myself on some stairs. I looked around and thought "I have to get back to the party"

I was trying to walk up when all of a sudden I thought "Whoa, I'm dreaming" right than two guys about 30 were nearly yelling at me, but not in a mad way, they looked like they were trying to tell me something, I ignored them because I became excited that I was dreaming and began to feel my real body. I was like "Oh no!" so I stopped what I was doing and concentrated on the guys face because I didn't know what else to do to stop from leaving my dream. It was gross because the guy had red blotches on his face and he was sweating and since I was concentrating on him it became worse :eek:
Everything became more clear and once it did, I walked away from them and up the stairs I continued walking and noticed all the kids from the party were there and saw this girl that always flirted with my crush in school, and I thought "He must be with her" I believed he was, and when I finally got close enough to her, he was standing right there. But than he ran off complaining about how someone messed up his license :?

Any who, I continued walking for some reason, not bothering with him. I think that's when I began to lose some of my lucidity. I remember the place was concrete and there were monuments everywhere. I saw another boy I crushed on, Chris. He sat with a group of girls. I smiled at him, after he noticed me. I walked over to him, past him and his group because I wasn't sure if I was dreaming anymore. I looked around, but for some reason the unfamiliar place wasn't enough to believe I was dreaming, so I did that finger through hand trick, which I've never done before. It was awesome :P
I was like "Oh, I am still dreaming" I stared at Chris, walked over to him, knelled down and asked him "Can I talk to you for a second? It's important" Which is stupid cause I could have just grabbed him and took him away from those girls, but I wanted to make it seem real I guess.
He smiled at me and agreed, he got up and we began to walk. I hugged him than, just because I miss him IRL. :(
and he kissed me on the cheek ;) And I was like :D and I hugged him tighter.
WORST TIME EVER TO HAVE A FALSE AWAKENING!
It was actually my first false awakening, boy did it suck :embarrassed:
It felt like I was in my bed with my eyes closed and my blanket was wrapped around me, as though I wasn't feeling Chris hugging me but the blanket was.
I remember thinking "well, I guess I had to wake up sometime" I got out of bed and ran to my room and told my sister "I had a lucid dream!!!" and she was excited for me, I grabbed my journal and went over to the living room, I skimmed through the pages and on each page there was money taped on it. I really should have known it wasn't real life, but I didn't.
THEN, I really woke up, I looked around and thought "Wait a minute" I thought back on my dream and was like "NOOO!!! I can't believe it" I even tried to finger through the hand trick and it didn't work lol.
I hate false awakenings already.
I really wish I could have done more in my lucid, but I'm actually pretty happy I was just able to stay in my dream longer than a few seconds. :boogie:

congratz on ur first lucid! =]=]=]
it sounds like a pretty good one. minus the false awakening... lol something similar happened to me last night.. so i have a question. were ur eyes closed when you were hugging chris? because if you read my dissapointing WILD post, i was closing my eyes to focus on my lucidity, and to get a better grip on what was going on, i thought about my RL body how i was sleeping, and then i thought about how i was out of that body in the astral plane dreaming, but when i opened my eyes, i was back in my bed!
i wish i woulda reality checked right then because i really do think it was a false awakening... i think closing your eyes takes out your roots to your dream scenario, and opens up possibilities for changing the dream scenario. i think our false awakenings were caused because we had thoughts about our RL body with our eyes closed (when the possibilities for the dream scenario are wide open). but idk. just a thought.

Thanks alot :D
I'm pretty sure my eyes were open, but I guess after the dream changed scenes and I was in "bed" (false awakening) I had my eyes closed, or maybe I had closed them after awhile of hugging him and then the scene changed. Not sure, it all went to fast.
Maybe you shouldn't close your eyes when trying to gain lucidity, try focusing on something else, like I did in the dream I had last night as you probably read above where I concentrated a DC's face to keep from leaving the dream world.

And I think what you said could be true, I was probably thinking "This feels so real" and then my thoughts wandered to my real life body lying in bed and that's when I had a false awakening.
I hate being a noob lol.
When you said you were back in your bed, did you wake up and realize it was a false awakening, or were you actually awake?

Awesome first lucid, my first one was like 5 seconds lol :). Its just to exciting, to many things to do.. so many questions.

False awakenings definitely suck when you miss them, but I love them nowadays.. Its almost like a extra life in mario or something :). Really get into the habit of doing RC's when you wake up, it will help tremendously.

Also, if you need to clarify your dreams or you feel as though you may be losing lucidity there are some great methods and tutorials laying around the forums to help you out. Some of my favorite are:

-Looking at hands, finger through palm etc.. also try to bend your fingers backwards. (Obviously not to hard in case you really are awake :P)
-Look at a mirror, almost never 'right' for me.
-Spin around a couple of times, fast as you can.
-Touch something, rough/abstract textures are the best I find.
-Imagine the feeling of flying/falling.
-Plug your noise and close your mouth, try to breath.

Really quickly want to say theres probably 50 millions ways of doing it, I find the key is to just distract yourself away from the thought of your real body (Laying in bed). Doing anything tactile in the dream should take your awareness off that thought and let you focus on whats going on around you.

By that I mean when your spinning in a dream for example, your obviously not really spinning.. but by inducing that feeling of motion you take your awareness off your brick of a body laying in bed. If you are rubbing some bark on the side of the tree that doesn't exists, or gazing upon a dream characters blotchy red face (:p) you just lose yourself in the dream, your body isnt there anymore. Best thing you can do is try a whole bunch of stuff, belief is everything

Alot of my false awakenings are basically triggered by my thought process going like this:

1. Wtf that's not right
2: Oh, I'm dreaming!
3. Finally, a lucid.. what to do first, what to do first?!
4. Man, this is crazy it all looks so real.. I cant believe Im really laying in my bed.
5. Wait a minute, *Feels the blankets and head resting on pillow*.. I am in my bed.. Damn hypnagogic imagery.. Bleh, time to try again.

That might sound.. weird. But its just the case for me. Very often I will still be dreaming. I believe spontaneous False awakenings can happen without really 'feeling' like you woke up from anything. Its the same thing like in nightmares, if you see a spooky/dark corner or something and you start going "Oh man I hope there isnt a crazy rabid leprechaun in there.." there usually will be.

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Originally Posted by Shady

Awesome first lucid, my first one was like 5 seconds lol :). Its just to exciting, to many things to do.. so many questions.

False awakenings definitely suck when you miss them, but I love them nowadays.. Its almost like a extra life in mario or something :). Really get into the habit of doing RC's when you wake up, it will help tremendously.

Also, if you need to clarify your dreams or you feel as though you may be losing lucidity there are some great methods and tutorials laying around the forums to help you out. Some of my favorite are:

-Looking at hands, finger through palm etc.. also try to bend your fingers backwards. (Obviously not to hard in case you really are awake :P)
-Look at a mirror, almost never 'right' for me.
-Spin around a couple of times, fast as you can.
-Touch something, rough/abstract textures are the best I find.
-Imagine the feeling of flying/falling.
-Plug your noise and close your mouth, try to breath.

Really quickly want to say theres probably 50 millions ways of doing it, I find the key is to just distract yourself away from the thought of your real body (Laying in bed). Doing anything tactile in the dream should take your awareness off that thought and let you focus on whats going on around you.

By that I mean when your spinning in a dream for example, your obviously not really spinning.. but by inducing that feeling of motion you take your awareness off your brick of a body laying in bed. If you are rubbing some bark on the side of the tree that doesn't exists, or gazing upon a dream characters blotchy red face (:p) you just lose yourself in the dream, your body isnt there anymore. Best thing you can do is try a whole bunch of stuff, belief is everything

Alot of my false awakenings are basically triggered by my thought process going like this:

1. Wtf that's not right
2: Oh, I'm dreaming!
3. Finally, a lucid.. what to do first, what to do first?!
4. Man, this is crazy it all looks so real.. I cant believe Im really laying in my bed.
5. Wait a minute, *Feels the blankets and head resting on pillow*.. I am in my bed.. Damn hypnagogic imagery.. Bleh, time to try again.

That might sound.. weird. But its just the case for me. Very often I will still be dreaming. I believe spontaneous False awakenings can happen without really 'feeling' like you woke up from anything. Its the same thing like in nightmares, if you see a spooky/dark corner or something and you start going "Oh man I hope there isnt a crazy rabid leprechaun in there.." there usually will be.

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It actually wasn't my first, more like seventh, but It was done with me actually trying to get them. My first one was unexpected after reading about lucid dreaming like last year :)
And it most likely only lasted a few seconds lol. I kept having them after that, and then it stopped.
Anyway, thanks for the tips, I'm going to make sure I actually do reality checks when I wake up. :D

When I did the finger through palm thing, my finger kind of just stuck in my hand, but didn't go through all the way through, but it felt so awesome :] like sticking your finger in warm jello or paint, that sounds lame, It felt cooler than it sounds lol.

False Awakenings mess with your head, but it's always fun in my book. Makes the night that much more interesting. And as mentioned, they are a chance to become lucid. About a third of my LDs are from FAs, so always try to be aware in the middle of the night.

Soemtimes I'm so out of it in the middle of the night, it feels like I'm dreaming, and I end up disappointed when I'm not.

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Originally Posted by PixieStix16

Thanks alot :D
I'm pretty sure my eyes were open, but I guess after the dream changed scenes and I was in "bed" (false awakening) I had my eyes closed, or maybe I had closed them after awhile of hugging him and then the scene changed. Not sure, it all went to fast.
Maybe you shouldn't close your eyes when trying to gain lucidity, try focusing on something else, like I did in the dream I had last night as you probably read above where I concentrated a DC's face to keep from leaving the dream world.

And I think what you said could be true, I was probably thinking "This feels so real" and then my thoughts wandered to my real life body lying in bed and that's when I had a false awakening.
I hate being a noob lol.
When you said you were back in your bed, did you wake up and realize it was a false awakening, or were you actually awake?

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lol i wish i knew whether it was a FA or not... thats why im so dissapointed i didnt Reality Check... haha ive done like at least 100 reality checks ever since.. lol that was not last night but the night before... =p reality checks FTW

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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue

False Awakenings mess with your head, but it's always fun in my book. Makes the night that much more interesting. And as mentioned, they are a chance to become lucid. About a third of my LDs are from FAs, so always try to be aware in the middle of the night.

Soemtimes I'm so out of it in the middle of the night, it feels like I'm dreaming, and I end up disappointed when I'm not.

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Yeah, they are alright except when you're already having a lucid dream and you have a FA.
Then they suck.
But what Shady wrote is true, doing RC's everytime you wake up is a good idea, for me atleast since on nearly my first LD I had false awakening, I bet I'll be getting ALOT more.

my second and third LDs happened last night and the last one was from a FA. They happened back to back and it was weird because when I was "sleeping" I was thinking that I shouldnt be (awhile ago I had read about the messed up stuff that can happen when you try to sleep in dreams) so I woke up, or so I thought. Luckily I still had LDs on my mind so I could do RCs immediatly.

This was my second FA that I can remember and both times they have been such weird and interesting experiences that I cant really say that they suck :P