Blogpost # 5: False Awakening: The most annoying thing in the morning.

This has to be one of the most annoying thing in the dream world, it tricks us into thinking that we're awake, but then we realize that we're still dreaming and that we're gonna get in trouble. I experience False awakening everyday, it always gives me problems every morning. One time I thought I was already going to school and we did all our quizzes and checked all our assignment but after 30 minutes of school, I woke up still sleeping and I was 4 hours late. I missed 1 test 4 seat works and I didn't get to pass my assignments.
In a lot of articles, it seems like it's connected to lucid dreams, because you think you're awake but you're still dreaming, you feel conscious and it can somehow trigger lucid dreaming if you suddenly notice that you're dreaming.

In an article " False Awakenings and Lucid Dreams  " from that site " world-of-lucid-dreaming.com ". Rebecca Turner says that in false awakening we usually do the stuff we do while we're on autopilot, like eating breakfast, dressing  up for work, going to school, Etc... We don't notice that we're just dreaming because we don't recognize that we're dreaming and we just continue on to our everyday routine.The only way you'll appreciate false awakening is that it's so good in showing us fake reality and on how it fooled us into thinking where already doing our daily deeds. You can turn your false awakenings into lucid dreams, once you notice that your in a dream, do some reality checks like looking into a clock. Looking into a clock usually works because letters and numbers change constantly because language centers in the brain are usually shutdown. Look into a mirror. In dreams, reflections aren't normal look at your hands, if you happen to have extra fingers or extra hands, then you're dreaming. Once you do some reality checks you can then switch into a lucid dream state.

Rebecca states that " False awakenings can be hard to spot, but with practice you will become better at recognizing that curious feeling that something is not right with the world " I think I need practice because false awakening has ruined every morning of my life.

How do I stop false awakening? In another article " How to Prevent False Awakening " from that site " dreamstudies.org " Ryan Hurd says that we need to first do some reality checks after that knowing that we're dreaming, we need to close and open our eyes repeatedly and this will usually break the dream. Another tip is to focus and stare at an object and that object may change or morph, but it usually wakes the brain and put us into a waking state. Last tip, you can try to sleep in the dream again then try to move a pinky or a toe and it will synchronize the dream body and the physical body and wakes you up.
Hope this tips work because I really need them.


Ryan says " False awakenings can be frustrating, terrifying, and may even begin to impact your daily life, especially when they occur 5 or more times in a row. " Yes! They have are very frustrating and annoying. They've been the cause of my daily problems, so I don't want to experience them.

False awakenings are the devils best asset, it destroys a lot of time every day.