health Have you ever had a false awakening?

HeavenSunset · July 7, 2020

You know when you wake up and then move on your day and then go to work/ school

But then i turns out it was a dream and then you have to start your day all over again

That's a false awakening

I will start, Yes i have had many, and they're super annoying

Ixrec · July 7, 2020

I've never had a "full-scale" one where I got up and went to work and everything, but I've definitely had ones where I got out of bed and did a small chore or read a comic and then realized I actually didn't.

Interestingly, I get more of those from daydreaming than actual dreaming. Especially when the chore I did is something I've been telling myself I need to get done today.

Edited July 7, 2020 by Ixrec

TBD · July 7, 2020

"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.."

I have that sometime, usually in the dream world I would feel very sluggish and more tried.

Stardust · July 7, 2020

Ive woken up in my dream before yeah not that bad though. The funny times is when I have a homework assignment to do in my dream and it gets too difficult and i panic and then wow i wake up its not real. Instant relief XD

HeavenSunset · July 7, 2020

7 minutes ago, flurry said:

Ive woken up in my dream before yeah not that bad though. The funny times is when I have a homework assignment to do in my dream and it gets too difficult and i panic and then wow i wake up its not real. Instant relief XD

Sometimes good things happen in my dreams, and then i wake up and it didn't happen :worry:

Edited July 7, 2020 by HeavenSunset

Splashee · July 7, 2020

Many times!

Usually when I have a test of some kind, or some kind of a challenge that day, I fall into a trap of thinking I woke up and started it, or failed it!

EpicEnergy · July 7, 2020

I have dreamed a few times that I woke up when I really wasn't awake.

They call me Loyalty · July 7, 2020

No. I have been trained to recognize common patterns during the dream state.

Regarding sleep paralysis, some acquaintances have experienced it during a failed process of astral projection, in which the subtle body gets caught during the vibratory transition necessary to disengage from the physical body. In other words, they are too dense.

SasQ · July 7, 2020

Being a long-time lucid dreamer (over 15 years), I have quite a lot of experience with this phenomenon (and many different interesting ones too ).

There were times when I got a "combo" of multiple false awakenings in a row, 10 or more: I woke up, walked around for a while, only to realize that I'm still in a dream, so I woke up, and it turned out to be a dream again, and again... and after several times of going through it again, I could tell right away after waking up that I'm still dreaming and make use of it

To a person who have never had such experiences before, or has them only occasionally, it might seem annoying indeed. But when you're a dreamer, like myself, you can get used to it and take advantage of it, because after a false awakening the dream world usually becomes much more realistic and stable, and this might be a good thing when you're aware that you're in a dream (hint hint: very realistic lucid dreams from which it's not that easy to wake up by accident).

Sometimes you can induce false awakening by going to sleep in a dream. This usually causes waking up, but not really: you wake up, but you're still in a dream So if you do it consciously and intentionally, you can be aware that this is still a dream and take advantage of it afterwards, to have a very stable and realistic lucid dream

Also, the thing from the movie "Inception" about time stretching in deeper dream levels seems to be true. I used that trick in my lucid dreams long before that movie came out, and it seems to work. When you fall asleep in a dream and you wake up in another dream, the time runs slower there, it seems, but from your perspective it runs normally, so you may spend hours in a dream, then wake up in the real world only to find out that it lasted only a couple of minutes total :J

Long time ago I happened to know a guy who claimed that he spent 50 years in a dream, lived his life there, had a family, gathered lots of memories, and he could talk about them for hours, everything was consistent & stuff, so he wasn't making stuff up.

The longest time I spent in a dream world that way was a couple of days, and I also remember quite a lot from that time, despite the fact that it lasted just one night in the real world.
I also have some memories from my other lives lived in the dream world(s), but not continuous ones – I just remember some episodes, or recognize some places from previous dreams when I happen to be there again, because I know those places very well somehow.

To those who are afraid of false awakenings, because they think that they might get stuck in the dream world and never wake up:
Don't be afraid, this can't happen. No matter how long you be in the dream world, you will wake up eventually in the real world, the very next day But in case you're still afraid, you can always set up an alarm clock to wake you up after a couple of hours no matter what. (Though I don't recommend using alarm clocks in general unless you have to, because they "reset" memories from the dream world and you will forget everything that happened in a dream immediately after waking up, because the alarm clock will suck all your attention and break your train of thoughts that connects you with those memories.)

Edit: People who answered "Not sure" in the poll are probably thinking that they're still dreaming right now

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Fluttershutter · July 8, 2020

I still remember once it felt like that happened five times. My mom called for me to get up, I dreamed I got up, got ready for school, walked out the door, and then she was calling me again. :dash:

SharpWit · July 8, 2020

More often I'll go through a whole day or even a few rather than just the start of the next one. It doesn't throw me off so much because enough random ess occurs that I realize I was dreaming or it was for a completely diferent day, like reliv8ng a part of my past or a false future, but there was this one that lasted for 6 months within the dream, and that really threw me through a loop when I got up.

King of Canterlot · July 8, 2020

8 hours ago, flurry said:

Ive woken up in my dream before yeah not that bad though. The funny times is when I have a homework assignment to do in my dream and it gets too difficult and i panic and then wow i wake up its not real. Instant relief XD

Same! I've had dreams before where I'm just struggling to get through some super hard/literally impossible school assignment, but then I wake up and realize that none of it was real which is a huge relief ^_^

8 hours ago, HeavenSunset said:

Sometimes good things happen in my dreams, and then i wake up and it didn't happen

I remember I had a dream once where I got this super cool Spitfire plush, it was so awesome!.... but then I woke up and I had no awesome Spitfire plush. That just sucks when that happens :scoots:

Magpie · July 8, 2020

This is most of my dreams. It gets annoying after a while, because when I do wake up I get confused about what happened and what didn't

Stardust · July 8, 2020

10 hours ago, HeavenSunset said:

Sometimes good things happen in my dreams, and then i wake up and it didn't happen

Aww yeah

I had the similar I guess like winning things at the arcade or getting some cool dr who books or something hahha. Another thing I have is when a new version of a game or book is coming out then i realise it doesn't exist.

AppleButt · July 8, 2020

I've never had that happen, though sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to find out my entire life has been a dream so far, and I suddenly wake up and I'm still in kindergarten.

TotallyNotNyx · July 8, 2020

13 hours ago, HeavenSunset said:

You know when you wake up and then move on your day and then go to work/ school

But then i turns out it was a dream and then you have to start your day all over again

That's a false awakening

I will start, Yes i have had many, and they're super annoying

One or two. It's pretty funny sometimes ^_^

MangoFoalix · July 8, 2020

Barely ever. Most of my dreams are abstract.

ExplosionMare · July 8, 2020

I’ve had lots of dreams about being late to school and dreams where I get something really cool only to realize later that it isn’t real. I also had this one dream about a notebook traffic jam where one of their “horns” beeped so loud I jumped up when I woke up to check the window. I even asked my family if they heard anything but they said no.