False awakening experiences

This happened like 2 years ago. It was a pretty normal day. Woke up early to get ready for school. (I was in 12 grade at that time). The alarm sound on my phone was running in the 90s (the song from the anime Initial D). I got up, started eating breakfast and even made it to school, and then it hit me. I had actually changed the alarm sound from running in the 90s to Start Up by blank banshee. I remember specifically doing this because I had gotten sick of hearing running in the 90s every morning. That's when I immediately realized I was still dreaming. Time then froze, people stopped dead in their tracks, and I got freaked out! I tried pinching myself to wake up, but instead I tore my skin off. I then jumped off a table and that did the trick (or so I thought). The alarm this time was the correct song (Start Up).I got up to get breakfast (like last time), then I looked at my cereal box and I realized it wasn't a real brand, and I woke up again! At this point I was seriously freaking out! I thought I was never gonna wake up! This time I just skipped breakfast and went outside. I looked at the sky and... it looked like it was colored by a blue crayon (or something). It just didn't look real. This time I didn't wake up and I knew fully well I was still dreaming. The scenery then changed and I was in my room again, but it was night time. I lay down on the floor hoping to got that I'd wake up soon, and then, I finally woke up! I woke up to the sounds of my angry mother telling me I had slept way past the time I was supposed to wake up from to go to school. The real alarm clock had sounded countless times but none of those time it woke me up. My mom also apparently had been yelling for a while for me to get up but I just couldn't get up! The rest of the day I just felt tired, anxious and uneasy. I couldn't concentrate for soykaf in school and I kept thinking I was going to wake up again any second.

happens to me all the time fam, I usually wake up because I can Identify that I was actually dreaming based on some obscure detail that seems out of place.

I had a rather similar experience without any negative consequences. I ll omit the details, but i ended up smoking a cigarette on the balcony and contemplating the nature of reality. Cool story btw.

>>1717 a few days ago I woke up about 20 times before I woke up for real. It was very scary as I was trying to wake up in the dreams but I couldn't. I remember this happening to me many times throughout my life though.

I've also had a few dreams like that. I like to call it recursive dreaming. Makes me wonder if I really woke up from the last dream I had.

I love those, it's the absolute best for having lucid dreams and astral travel hippie soykaf since the biggest hassle there is that it's hard to stay in the dream, but false awakenings are like a safety net that keeps you from waking up. Enjoy it, what could be more life changing than an OBE or something like that, that you hurry to wake up? You won't stay forever in dreamland, eventually you'll wake up for real, so learn some reality checks like looking at your hands or breathing with your nose pinched and enjoy the rides. Also check out the movie Waking Life if you haven't.

As a kid going to piss did the trick, and I think would prefer to have to clean everything than to risk being stuck in a eternal dream.

I had one happen in highschool. Fell asleep in history class and started dreaming that I was in that same exact class. The bell went off, so I woke up, grabbed my stuff, and headed out with the rest of the class... only to wake up for real like a minute later, the whole class having already left and my teacher looking at me disappointedly.

One of the most trying dream experiences I ever had involved the false awakening or repeated awakening experience. I'll try to keep the long story short. I found myself living in an old victorian house located in a remote rural location. I was married and the father of two children. I felt fully immersed in this identity, yet oddly, at the same time, lucid and with agency. After spending a pleasant day at home with the family and going to bed, two strangers broke into the home and preceded to murder the members of the family one by one. After failing to protect this family and dying, I "woke up" feeling exhausted and disoriented by a nightmare that I could not recall. The catch was, I was now the mother and relived the experience from her perspective. Then I awoke as the daughter, the older of the two children, and had to relive the experience yet again. Finally, I awoke as her younger brother and was once again subjected to this horrific loop. Upon awakening to my actual self, I was covered in a cold sweat and left feeling more exhausted then when I had initially gone to bed. After gathering my composure, I reached for a notebook and filled several pages with the many details of this experience, much of which I have omitted from this post as not to lose the theme of this experience in a wall of text. I often encounter false or repeated awakenings when dreaming but this dream was the only time I can recall being caught in such a consistent loop where the dream was repeated from multiple perspectives.

Dreams like this are pretty much why I learned to do reality checks. Until I learned to do that, I set my alarm to something annoying enough that I couldn't avoid waking up (it was a radio alarm, so I just untuned it) and kept it away from me so that I would have to get up to turn it off. On the plus side, I learned to wake up a couple of minutes before my alarm went off every morning. Fast forward a few years and I am usually quite good at reality checking and I set my alarm to go off 3 times in the morning except for weekends. It isn't great, but at least it beats being late for work.

Had a similar experience in my first lucid dream. I was having a nightmare where something embarassing happened to me in school that i don't remember, when i realized i was in a dream i got teleported to my room for some reason. I always wanted to have a lucid dream so i was pretty excited, i ran to my backyard and tried to fly but it didn't work. Then i climbed the wall to get to the roof and jumped, i managed to levitate for a few seconds but then i fell to the ground. Falling made me wake up in the school nightmare. Since i used to sleep a lot in school at that time i thought that i had fallen asleep during class and this was reality. Basically i was having a dream, then it became lucid and then it returned to normal. It's like my brain fooled me into stopping having a lucid dream.

I once had a similar experience, though not as intense or repetitive, I woke up in the morning and did my daily routine (which waking up 30 minutes before was usually waking up, getting dressed, and not much else) and going to school, it all felt real, like I was there, class felt real, my interactions with people felt real, I really felt like I was in school, then all of the sudden everything just went black and I woke up before school started, I was so angry about this, not only did I have to restart everything which felt like real hours that went by in my dreams, but I also worried that at any minute I would wake up in bed again, I probably won't forget that dream.

I had a pretty weird dream where I woke up then felt a difficulty moving, and moved to the toilet crawling and then felt like my life ebbing away and then I woke up again to see myself back in bed.

Does anybody try to gather data on these kinds of dreams? I have tried to measure the passing of time, and have found that generally time goes by 4-6 times faster in my dreams than IRL. I basically look at the clock, and then recall the times on the clock in my dreams when I dream about waking up, then compare that time to the actual time when I really wake up.

you're still dreaming mate. wake up!