Hey guys! So I'm making real progress with lucid dreaming, my last few WILD attempts have been nearly successful my latest resulting in lucidity (but only a very low-level of lucidity it seems, if anyone can shed light on how to 'increase' the level of lucid you become in dreams [if that makes any sense lol] that would be really appreciated as well).

Anyway, something I have noticed in my WILDs the past 5 times is that I have really strange false awakening sequences. I will be mid-wild on the brink of entering the dreamworld and eventually I'll feel the vibrations but at some point I enter a dream/dreamlet false awakening type thing. They usually are me in a bed somewhere (not necessarily the one I fell asleep in), for instance today during my nap I was in some strange bedroom in an apartment I think? However from this bed I had a view of my living room window, and I could see police lights flashing on the houses across the streets which is one of my dreamsigns for pete's sake. For some reason I just didn't even make the connection that this was a dream (even though I was feeling pretty confident about how the WILD was going while I was still awake) and assumed it was my reality and I even checked my phone because I was like well WILD attempt failed let's check my messages. My phone screen was all effed up too and still I didn't become remotely lucid.

Eventually I gained consciousness in my bed again and tried to just go back to sleep to try again but I only ended up laying through a few cycles of feeling like I was flying through a tunnel really fast or something before I was too awake to continue.

It's extremely weird because it almost feels like the dream I had was a real
memory of something that just happened but of course I know it was a dream, and my entire time and reality schemas just seem whacked out.

If anyone has any insights on how I can proceed I'd love to hear! Thanks for reading