Dealing With False Awakenings

Did you ever woke up and start your day to find yourself waking up again? This is called a False Awakening, and they are widespread. You have likely experienced these already. Today, I will talk about all you can do to get the most around a False Awakening.

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Today we are going to talk about dreams,

Or rather a very funny aspect that sometimes occurs that are called false awakenings.

And I am sure that many of you had a false awakening at some time since they are widespread.

I am sure that when you were little,

You dreamt of going to school and maybe something happened to you and you would wake up with a scare.

This phenomena happens a lot,

And literally everyone has experienced it.

However,

If you start to investigate your dreams,

You will find that you will have more of this.

But the best of all is that you can profit and enhance your dream adventures thanks to false awakenings,

And I will share why.

So,

There is no much secret with this topic,

And what I have told you,

Surely you have all false awakenings at some time,

So it is something you know already.

If you start to be aware of your dreams,

Like writing them down,

You will find that you will have more and more false awakenings.

You will wake up,

Write down your dream,

And then wake up again,

And realizing that you have dreamt that you woke up.

This does not mean that they are more frequent,

But that you have a better memory of your dreams and you begin to realize the very nature of your own dreams.

And although there are many dreams,

I want to tell you that false awakening is not a type of dream as per se,

But simply just a regular dream.

And I can explain a typical one for me,

So after a few moments of silence,

Still listening to the echo of the sounds that were part of my previous dream,

I open my eyes.

I am used to staying in bed in a relaxed state,

Breathing deeply,

So my awakenings are very gentle.

The bed moved gently,

So I assumed my wife was waking up too.

I could feel a lot of tranquility,

Even more peace and normal,

The room was very silent,

And there were no sounds from the outside.

Little by little,

I was getting up in bed,

Feeling very rested and wanting to start the day.

I could feel my body totally free of aches and pains,

And everything felt awesome.

Getting used to questioning reality,

I decided to look at my hands to make sure that I was awake.

It was very blurry around,

However,

I was turning lucid already since I could see that I had missing fingers on my hands,

And the ones that I had were very deformed,

Proving I was sleeping.

However,

At this point I rechecked my hands as well as gravity,

As I began to realize completely that I was still sleeping and dreaming.

Here,

I am already lucid,

And I decide to go out and enjoy a small night flight until I wake up and write everything down for real.

So,

As you can see,

Almost until the end,

It didn't feel like a dream.

And this is the grace of the false awakenings.

It will almost perfectly mimic a normal and ordinary waking.

If you start observing your dreams,

You will realize that your dream room is the same,

Or practically the same as your room in real life.

Things like,

For example,

An item of clothing that you leave on a chair could reflect on your false awakening,

And make you believe even more that you are awake is amazing.

So don't be fooled by false awakenings,

Because they will accompany you.

False awakenings can easily fool you.

In fact,

A false awakening is the vast majority of the time the same as an ordinary awakening.

We have all had false awakenings at some point in our life.

When you wake up falsely,

You will see that everything is the same as in reality.

Maybe you even hear your alarm clock and turn it off and everything.

However,

Even if everything seems the same,

You may realize that not everything is normal.

For this,

You have to get used to observing.

I recommend that you get used to checking that you are awake every time you find yourself in bed.

Although a false awakening is almost like a normal awakening,

There will always be some detail to tell you that you are in a dream.

If you are not interested in dreams,

You may have fewer false awakenings or ignore them altogether.

However,

If you have to wake up at a specific time,

You have experienced a typical dream such as dreaming that you wake up and you are late,

For example.

But in principle,

If there is no pressure on waking up,

You will have less frequent false awakenings.

However,

If you already began to explore dreams,

You will dream that you will wake up.

For instance,

As I have explained this lucid dreaming topic many times,

Writing down your dreams is super important.

Just by wanting to write down your dreams,

You already put some pressure in your consciousness and you are going to have many,

Many false awakenings.

And in a way,

This is a bridge through the dreams because if you start listening to your dreams,

You are going to start recording them.

It is common,

Especially at the beginning,

To dream that you wake up and feel very happy because you had a magnificent dream.

You start to write it down in your journal and then you visit the bathroom.

The next thing,

You notice yourself in bed,

In your pitch black and completely relaxed in your room,

The pillow under your head.

Perhaps you are super happy because you have written down the dream,

While at that very moment you realize that you have never written down the dream.

You have only dreamed you did.

And this is a very typical false awakening.

This phenomenon can be a great help to have more lucid dreams.

For example,

I am going to give you another situation.

As you dream of,

Perhaps,

A fantasy and suddenly you begin to hear a strange noise,

Little by little your room appears to you.

You feel very lazy to have to start the day,

But you have no choice and you put your feet on the ground.

As you walk to the bathroom,

You realize you can't see in the dark.

Also,

The bathroom light doesn't work and you feel like there is less gravity.

Or as if something was easier.

You do a righted check and you realize that you have six fingers and they are four years still dreaming.

Completely lucid.

This will give you a lot of happiness because you have the freedom to be in a dream where a few moments ago you were preparing to go to work.

Did you know that false awakenings can be extremely surprising?

Sleep paralysis and false awakenings,

They are not the same.

And I realize that some sources of information are confusing the both.

In English,

I have a saying that they are the same when they are not.

In this moment,

You can realize that sleep paralysis,

It is just a complete different state of mind,

Of mind awake and body asleep.

It's not scary,

Although it can be difficult sometimes,

But this is another topic about lucid dreams,

Nightmares and sleep paralysis.

We are not going to talk about that today.

But I want to share something.

I want to share an anecdote that I read in one of LaBaer's books.

A pricey false awakening,

I call it,

Or that's how the author call it.

This little story,

It is amazing.

In this summary,

A family was taking a long road trip.

In the middle of the afternoon,

They stopped for a snack.

As the night grew,

The girl fell asleep.

After a while,

The girl told her parents that she had fallen asleep and had dreamt of the numbers for the local drawing for a few thousand dollars.

The girl told her mother the numbers and a little later they arrived home.

Her parents put her to bed and they all went to sleep.

In the morning,

The girl saw the numbers in the newspaper and began to jump very happily because they had won.

The parents didn't understand what was happening until the girl explained everything.

Her parents told her that after having the snack,

She fell asleep shortly once they got back to the car and she never woke up until they got home.

She never told her parents the numbers.

Never.

All of this thanks to a false awakening.

So,

What can one get out from a false awakening?

Well,

Now the question is to get the most out of them and I'm going to give you some quick tips.

First of all,

Get used to writing checks every time you see yourself in bed.

If you focus on dreams,

You are going to have more false awakenings.

Count on them.

You will have a much better chance of becoming lucid as a result of a false awakening.

If you wanted to write down the previous dream,

Do your best to wake up.

Continuing with this new lucid dream will endanger the memory of the previous ones,

So don't force it.

If you have a string of false awakenings,

Stay in bed and do nothing and let it pass for a while.

If you know that as you wake up,

Keep doing nothing for a while,

This will stop the chain.

If you want to also explore this new lucid dream that you are entering,

Make sure to stabilize the dream to prolong the duration and the quality.

This way you will also avoid false awakenings to happen subsequently.

And there is something else to say goodbye,

I call it a false day.

Sometimes it can happen that as a result of a false awakening,

You have a very long dream.

In this dream you start the day routinely.

You even go to your workplace to realize that you are waking up again.

And this is very unpleasant,

But it's rare.

But it happens.

But if you know false awakenings,

You will get used to writing checks and this will never happen.

It will turn into an amazing lucid dream.

So make sure to get those ready checks going and you'll see that your nights are going to be more amazing.

I wish you an amazing day.

Namaste.