Thread: Epic String of False Awakenings

This a dream I had a few months ago, but I just thought of it today and I'm not sure if I've posted it here. It wasn't a lucid dream, but boy was it awesome if not totally confusing.

The dream began on the night of my birthday. All my friends were over celebrating - dancing, drinking, playing games and such - but I was getting very sleepy and ended up falling asleep while watching someone play wii sports.

I then woke up and thought to myself "Damn, I'm late for English," jumped in my car, and started driving to class. A few miles down the road, I realized it was the middle of the night and there were absolutely no cars on the road. Feeling stupid I pulled a u-turn and headed back. I looked down for one second to change the radio station and - BAM - I slammed into an empty cop car in the middle of the road. My nerves were tense as I pulled onto a side street, inspected the large V-shaped dent in my hood, and waited for the cops to show up.

But then I woke up and realized it was all a dream. Relieved, I opened my window to make sure it was morning, took a shower, made breakfast, grabbed my things and walked outside to my car. Everything normal... except that my car still had the V-shaped dent in the hood. I remember thinking, "Shit, that wasn't a dream?!" and it totally blew my mind.

Then I woke up the morning after the party. "Oh so THAT was the dream." I ate a slice of omelette-cake.

When I actually woke up (irl), I was unsure of everything I saw for the rest of the day, half-expecting to wake up again at any moment. Totally changed how I think about mornings hah.

Anyone else had complex, linked FAs like this?

Wow, sounds quite epic indeed! Never had one of those but multiple false awakenings in a short period of times is something I experienced. Reality checking fixes everything but it can be quite annoying..

I'd like to know whether anyone has similar experiences.

I was sleeping at home, alone, and dreamed I heard somebody come into my house. Then I heard the tags on my boyfriend's dogs jingling, and one of them jumped on the bed. I woke up part way and said hello to the dogs. Then I heard my boyfriend coming up the stairs and coming in to the room, but I couldn't wake up to talk to him.

I struggled to wake up and eventually did, but he and the dogs were not here after all.

This is not a recurring dream, but my other false awakenings have been similar, often when I dream someone comes into the house or my room. Sometimes they are scary, sometimes not.

I've never had anything quite that complex as far as FAs go, but I once got to enjoy 12 in a row. I say enjoy because each of them turned into a lucid and lasted longer than 2-3 minutes.


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Originally Posted by Kalmiopsis

I'd like to know whether anyone has similar experiences.

I was sleeping at home, alone, and dreamed I heard somebody come into my house. Then I heard the tags on my boyfriend's dogs jingling, and one of them jumped on the bed. I woke up part way and said hello to the dogs. Then I heard my boyfriend coming up the stairs and coming in to the room, but I couldn't wake up to talk to him.

I struggled to wake up and eventually did, but he and the dogs were not here after all.

This is not a recurring dream, but my other false awakenings have been similar, often when I dream someone comes into the house or my room. Sometimes they are scary, sometimes not.

You'd probably get more of a response if you started a new thread instead of hi-jacking this one. I'm not implying it was intentional; I'm just trying to point you in the right direction.


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Why is the in Lucid Experiences if no actual lucidity was involved?

I'm not sure if i had stuff like this happened, but it is possible that i had some.
Anyway that was pretty cool!!

Wow, that's pretty cool. I had something similar happen once. They weren't as complicated as that because they were all lucid, and all within aminute or so ofone another, but there were a good 12 at least, all talking place in the same room. I kept falsely-awakening in the same spot, but every time there was a minor alteration to the room and/or the people in it.

I like the false awakenings post of yours. I've been having false awakenings, and sometimes a series of them, and they normally come from trying to pull myself out of a lucid dream that turns nightmarish. Two nights ago, I even tried to pinch myself, like the classic pop wisdom method of divining whether you're awake or not. The funny thing is, I could pinch myself just like in normal waking life but I didn't feel it and I continued dreaming lucidly! I thought I was awake and I reached down and grabbed my legs and then realized if I was awake I wouldn't be standing up. This dream was so realistic, I would say it looked more real than waking life and it took place in a palace built out on the sea with marble columns that were more than ten feet in diameter and waves crashing all around. There was a family of Chinese people living there, crazy little unruly children. The sea was high and stormy with waves. The lady there said to me, "I've never seen the waves so long." I thought they don't look particularly long but they are everywhere and crashing like haystacks. Are these places real? This doesn't have anything to do with me! Though I am kind of obsessed by waves and surf, sometimes. Can I imagine this stuff...?
When I woke it was only 45 min after I fell asleep.

I have had the same experience.

I had a re-eccuring false awaking that happen so long I lost count of how many time I re-awoke only to find myself in another false awakening. I started actually counting at around the 13th the 14th time assuming that I was going to actually wake up soon. After about the 25th awakening (in my bed in my room in my apartment) I started to panic, when I started to panic severely enough I found myself re-awaking in my bed (suffering from light sleep paralysis) IN THE DREAM. Thats how real it seemed to me, but I was not awake. My attempts to wake myself were futile and only resulted in me awaking in a new instance of a false awakening.

It happen for at least an hour and a half in REAL TIME. When I actually woke up in the real world I was delusional, I still believed that I was dreaming and didnt believe anything was real at that point I had given up on waking up. My brother and friend had to hold me down and almost a half hour and convince me that I was not still dreaming.

I believe this instance was caused by a glitch in my brains function to release the neuro chemical that inhibits motor function, It attempted too when I tried to wake myself which is why I feld the "weight on my body", which was my perception of feeling my physical body in the dream. But my brain never fully stopped the chemical and since I entered a seemingly new dream each awakening, my brain increased the release of the neuro chemical temporarily.

This is some sort of brain cycle glitch phenomena which I do not EVER want to happen to me again.

I developed severe insomnia after this episode. Wake up in an altered state of mind, lose your perception of reality and see if you dont fear going to sleep at night.

On the first week of trying to get a lucid dream I had 10 FAs in a row. I was trying to fall to sleep and apparently I had but didn't realise it. I woke up from that FA after a while of laying there. I got up to go to the bathroom and half way through going I woke up. I was like wo wtf. I tried to go back to sleep and woke up again. This happened several times each time the space inbetween got closer and closer together until I got up for real.