The BIG FA topic

I sometimes trick myself when I am sooo lazy and try to decide wether I should make some notes or not.I just go into HI (accidently) and imagine making notes, but I don´t really get that this doesn´t work

Sorry if it is too much offtopic, but does this also happen to anyone:

I wake up at night, and I am soooo thirsty.I can´t even go back to sleep, my mouth is completely dry, I really NEED to drink something.
However, I am really sleepy and lazy, it´s like I can´t possibly get up, since I am still almost dreaming.
So, I just try to get back to sleep.Then those weird images start, I imagine myself walking down to the kitchen and getting myself a glas of water, over and over again.And each time I am really frustrated when I realize that I just have done it in my mind…
It´s like a false awakening, until I actually try to drink it, I don´t know that it isn´t real (although I am not sleeping)

Traumgänger

I can relate to that, many years ago, when i was a kid. i’d wake up early on christmas day, but i knew it was too early to open our presents, so i went back to sleep and dreamt of opening my presents, only to be dissapointed when i wake up. then i’d fall asleep and it would happen all over again until i actually got out of bed.

I had something similar. I had a long dream and near the end i had a reffer then went to bed in the dream, i woke up in the dream the next morrning but thought i was awake i went downstaris and took the phone of this guy who was using it and started telling the guy on the phone about the dream i was still having. I would have thought if you wanted to stop the problem with writing stuff down in dreams just get in the habit of doing a reality check before you write down your dream.

i had a dream where i woke up and started writing the dream down on my mattress sheets and then i woke up again and could barely remember the dream. those are quite aggrivating.

I had a FA recently, my first one, I liked it because it must mean im closer to being Lucid, and thats a good thing.

lol i get a FA almost every morning. my mom wakes calls me to get up, I sit up for a few mins and fall back asleep, but i dream that I am awake, and i walk to the kitchen for food and stuff. Then my mom calls me again tellin me to get up and I scream “I am awake! Im makin breakfast!”, then I open my eyes to see im still in bed. Yep…my mom must think im crazy lol

I do something some mornings that is incredibly annoying, but it’s not exactly a FA. I’ll wake up, for real, and think about writing down my dreams on the backs of the Far Side Calendar (hehe, I love Gary Larson). At that point, I just kind of drift off back to sleep (not entirely) and in this state of waking/sleeping I’ll write down my dreams. Then I’ll wake up again and realize that I haven’t written them down yet. It’s especially annoying when I have a lot of dreams and I have to record them all for the second time.

Pinky

LoL Nightmare I wish I had a FA every morning cuz I always get lucid in them. Every time I wake up, I look at the clock next to my bed and it usually has letters or mixed up numbers on it in my dreams, which makes me lucid

I had an LD last night and then had a FA in my spanish class. Supposedly I fell asleep, lol…

But is that still considered an LD? I know there’s the term “fake lucid dream” and a few others, and I’m not sure if any of them involved having FAs after the LD. Thanks!

/ds

Yes it stil is a LD, “waking up” in a FA after a LD or not.

FAs always seemed so annoying to me. Normally cause I always had about three in a row. I thought I woke up and was ‘awake’ for a few minutes already and suddenly I was back in bed thinking ‘oh, i just had a FA…but I’m awake now’ and I get up and after a few minutes I find myself in my bed again… and again… about three times normally. I hated it. But somehow I never thought of doing a RC while having one… I’ll try to remember it next time!

After having a few FAs, I now do an RC every time I wake up… Just to be sure…

Whenever I wake up in the morning or during the night I do a RC…

I haven’t had a FA so far.

This morning I went to a seminar and the guy giving the lecture asked us to close our eyes to visualise or imagine something. I was afraid I might sleep and end up having a FA where I dream I’m awake at the seminar!

So I had to do a RC after we opened our eyes again…

I think FAs are great, mostly because they more often than not triggers lucidity for me.

However, just recently I discovered that a FA greatly increases the vividness of a LD. Once, I even induced a FA at will, and it worked. My dream became just as vivid as RL. (What I did: I laid down in the middle of the street and fell asleep).

I think the increase of vividness is because anyone having a FA would expect to be waking up into RL for at least a few seconds. Thus, by expecting your surroundings to look realistic, they tend to do so.

Have anyone else experienced what I’m talking about?

Hm yes a FA looks very realistic to me always, the key is to use it to continue your LD and/or make your LD more clear. I used it in this way only a few times yet but it seems promising.

I had a FA last night. No LD however. I was in my room and felt like I needed to go to the toilet, how embarassing.

But my room was not completely correct.

I should have made an RC… But during the dream I forgot.

But it’s promising. It means an LD is getting closer!

Hmm. I just found out that FAs can also be used to prevent real awakenings and loss of lucidity. What I do is, every time I notice the dream is fading, or I feel that I’m loosing lucidity, I induce a false awakening. Then I just “wake up” inside this newer and more stabile dream and continue with whatever I was doing.
I managed to use this technique five times during one LD last night, it really helped me staying in the dream.

Someone other than me should try this; Induce FAs either to increase vividness/lucidity or just to prolong the LD itself.

Sounds promising, but how exactly do you induce a false awakening? I tend to always wake up completely when the LD is fading.

Usually I actually wake up when an LD fades… In fact, I only remember one time that I had an FA following an LD. After that I always do RCs after waking up…

That’s kind of difficult to answer… I sort of expect to have an FA, like autosuggestion (like MILD). Then I visualize myself awakening in the dream, and at the same time I have an FA.
You should do an RC upon awakening, and you should expect it to show that you are dreaming.

If you find that too difficult, you could try falling asleep in your dream, that’s another way of inducing an FA.