Help! False Awakenings

**Predator-S** · 01-22-2008 11:18 AM

I'm excited and dissapointed at the same time.

My alarm woke me up at 10. I was up late reading Harry Potter last night so I turned it off and got back to sleep. It woke me up a few more times (5 minute breaks), I got pissed off. I dreamt Godzilla was attacking NY and I was filming everything on a cam (Pre-Cloverfield excitement, I guess). Everytime it killed someone there were quick rolling credits and snapshots of his last moments. At one time it stomped me and my credits started rolling. I woke up gasping for air and after that everything was blurry. I got out of my bed and got that familiar strange feeling that something's not right. Somehow I realized I was dreaming. I looked at my hand for a while (that's my RC), stared at it and realized it was ghostly white and really blurry like an old unclear memory. I really beame lucid then, so I started rubbing my hands and turning around. The dream got clearer and more realistic. GREAT I thought, it didn't fade away. So I tried to get out of my room, but couldn't. I couldn't jump out of the window (tried that once with the same luck). I couldn't fly out of my room through the celling and other floors, something was stopping me. I woke up again and looked at my phone. Strange, the time was something like 45:45 with the second 4 being out of place. I got to my pc and looked at some pictures, then I saw I had no internet and the icons were a bit biggerr than normal. I looked at my hands and they looked normal, I tried pinching my nose, but it already was a bit blocked so I couldn't realize if I could breath through it. I looked at my phone again and the time was 13:54. I thought 'Wait, it can't be so late' because at that time I'd have to be in school. I looked at it one more time and it was 13:12 or 13:28. What a big breakthough. Never before had I tried three reality checks and turned out that the one I was using isn't so reliable. I become lucid and WOW. Everything was so vivid, realistic. I've had several lucid dreams since I'm regged here, but none of them was so real. I could feel the floor, I could hear and feel my uncle in the other room (although in reality he should've left to work about 2 hours ago). I wanted to do something so I grabbed a coin, sat on the ground and tried to levitate it. I said to myself 'Come one, this is a dream, you know you can do this, it's a dream' but nothing happened. Think I just changed it color. After that I woke up fo real and it was exactly 11:00. I wasn't exactly sure how many false awakenings I had, maybe I recall wrong and it happens for the first time this way so I'm a bit confused.

My question is what should I do next time when I have a false awakening? Because it seems that I have little to no dream control. Maybe just walking outside through the door like in RL? I never tried it to be honest (well, I had just one FA prior to this morning).

But it's a breakthrough for me, I've never before felt a dream so real, I've never rubbed my hands ans spin around on purpose, I've only did one RC before this.

**Adam** · 01-22-2008 11:51 AM

One thing you could practice is to perform a RC every time you wake up. There are a number of simple ones you can do:

Check you clock, twice
Use the hand RC when you wake up
Try to walk through the door rather than open it
Nose plug RC

The list goes on, but I would maybe try getting into the habit of this, then hopefully next time you have an FA you will try one of this and become lucid again

Good luck,
Adam.

**Suze** · 01-22-2008 12:53 PM

I actually used to have that problem when I first started lucid dreaming (where I couldn't leave the room) and yeah the easiest way for me to get the dream going is/was to walk out the door like in real life. start with small things... dont try and fly the first time. start with bouncing up and down... feeling the non-gravity lol you'll float more and more go higher and higher each time. I remember in one of my first lucid dreams I started out bouncing up and down then moved on to jumping over the balcony in my "house" a million times. it was so frustrating because I thought I'd never be able to fly or control my dreams the way I wanted too... but now I actually can fly. I think learning lucid dreaming (although I'm not going to say I'm any kind of an expert) is a process... and if you start with trying to control small things at first and then move to bigger and bigger things (because you realize that its possible and learn how to control it). In my early lucid dreams I either couldn't in some dreams or was scared in others to leave my house (because thats usually how it would start is with a false awakening) For me thats how a lot of my effective lucid dreams have started is with a false awakening. But today I had one and I was in my dorm room (in real life and my dream) and then had a false awakening to wake up in my house back home and could actually fly from building to building, wherever I wanted whereas before its always been flying from tops of building to the ground, to jumping to other buildings and etc. I still cant conjure up new 'dream scenes' at will I kind've have to travel there in my dreams but hopefully that will happen for me soon!
Good luck!!! hope this helps a little

Oh sry... also when i have a false awakening I try light switches and a lot of the time they wont work. Or try and look around the room and try and see if things look different than they should, or like today, think about where I woke up and where I actually should be.

**CiD** · 01-22-2008 02:33 PM

Does anyone know the reason for a false awakening? Maybe you are worried about waking up as soon as you become lucid. I know I do that, but only remember one false awakening, and it wasn't lucid. It was like, oh silly me that was a dream. Then, when I woke up for real, I was like DAMN got me again. Though unintentional, the false awakening may have been a form of dream control. If you were worried about it, then you were thinking about it. That's how I control my dreams. Also, try blinking if you cant change something. Controlled my dream on the first attempt with a blink. Looked out the window, and made it rain after a single blink. I guess it is sort of like refreshing a screen on a computer, except everything changes when you don't look at it anyway.

**Barns** · 01-22-2008 07:05 PM

My best Reality Check is casting a spell, as it won't make you look stupid, and you don't need to move at all. just try it as often as possible, and very often at night.

**ninja9578** · 01-22-2008 07:41 PM

Agree with everyone else. Reality checks when waking up will prevent false awakenings from becoming regular dreams.

**Predator-S** · 01-22-2008 08:33 PM

Thanks

I guess I get too excited and try to do hard things, rather to get to know the enviroment around me more. Next time I have a FA I'll walk out and look around.

**MisterHyde** · 01-22-2008 08:46 PM

Personally I don't mind false awakenings. Once you realise you're still dreaming you can have fun!

**Barns** · 01-22-2008 09:08 PM

Personally I don't mind false awakenings. Once you realise you're still dreaming you can have fun!

Aye, it is a good way to get an entirely fresh lucid scene straight after a different one.

**warock** · 01-23-2008 11:44 AM

I feel for u bro...
i have had many my self... and they weren't exactly pleasant. My worst one was about 2 years ago
I woke up from a terrible nightmare. My mom came into my room to comfort me.
But she turned into a horrifying monster. I woke up frightened again. But the exact same thing happened like 5 times. When i finally woke in RL i was scared of my mom

Don't wont to experience that again...

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