I’m curious about false awakenings and I wanted to read more about them. I’m sure there is lots of discussion regarding them somewhere on this forum but I couldn't find one specifically.

I have a few questions:

Do false awakenings necessarily require a higher awareness than a normal dream? I have heard many descriptions of people waking up, getting ready for work etc. only to then wake up again. It seems that this like the vividness of a lucid dream but without being aware of being lucid.

But can false awakenings also include dreaming that you wake up in your dream and then carrying on with the dream even if it is in a similar fussy dream state?

Do false awakenings greatly increase your chance of later becoming lucid? Are they an indicator that you are a little bit more aware than you normally are?

Why do false awakenings occur – are they occurring simply because it is the brain doing something that you do everyday just like you often dream of work or the people you are around a lot? Or is it some kind of middle-ground where the brain is getting confused between waking and sleeping worlds?

I’ve only had one lucid dream (I don’t count the ones that only last a few seconds) and this occurred after a false awakening (at least what I think was a false awakening, but it wasn’t vivid – it was waking up in my dream although I felt really sleepy just like I often do when coming out of a deep sleep – then I actually fell asleep later in my dream and after waking up again in the dream had a lucid).

So that’s why I would like to know and understand more about false awakenings