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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Usually when I have FA’s I end up getting angry and forcing myself awake. Of course they’re usually about me being late somewhere, or going to the wrong place, or something equally frustrating, so I realise it’s a dream but rather than go lucid, I just wake myself up to be sure i’m dreaming.
Someone on this topic already mentioned doing a RC when you “wake up”, whether it’s a FA or a real one, but here’s an idea. In your dream journal (if you have one), put a page in the front that has in big letters “Perform a reality check”. This way, when you pick up your journal to start writing, you will see this page over and over.
Now, when you have a FA, you will most likely pick up that dream journal, and when you open it up, there’s the page! Depending on which RC works for you, you could read the page again to see if the words changed, or you could perform an RC of your choice.
The whole point of the paper is to embed it into your subconscious. Of course, if the page is missing from the dream journal in your dream, you should know something’s up…
I’m gonna go ahead and put a page into my dream journal to see if this works… FA are a rarity for me, but any opportunity for an LD is a good one!
But keep in mind that not all FAs are “normal” like your actual awakenings. You might wake up in the middle of the street, or in a spaceship… With no dream journal to be found!
I think it would be better to remember to do RCs every single time you awake, no matter what circumstances, and you should not depend on a self-induced dreamsign like that page in your DJ you mentioned.
oh yeah, I guess that makes sense now. But the only type of FA I experience are the ones when I reach for my dream journal, so I guess it could be a solution to me, but not for everyone else…
Yeah, sticking to RCs whenever you wake up sounds like a universal solution. But hey, if you constantly have a FA and you reach for your dream journal, the “page” may just be the best method out there!
I don’t think I’ve ever had a false awakening. Or at least I don’t ever remember having one. Is that wierd? It sounds like a pretty common phenominon to have them.
A false awakening is just a dream that begins with you waking up as you do any other morning. The dream usually then continues with you getting ready for work (or school), and perhaps embarking on some adventure to get there. Most of my FAs involve me waking up late for work, and strugling with trivial tasks like putting on a tie, locking the door, getting in my car, and so on.
You’ve never had a dream where you wake up in your bed, before finally waking up for real?
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 
