What are false awakenings?
In false awakenings, you believe you have woken up but are in fact still asleep. It’s a very vivid dream and to some extent you have control of it. Some people get up, get dressed, have breakfast and leave the house in a false awakening. However, it’s more like being on auto-pilot than a genuine conscious experience. The bizarre thing is, when a false awakening ends, you can wake up in bed and realize it was all a dream. So you get up, get dressed, have breakfast and leave the house all over again… then BAM! It was another false awakening. One person reported seven false awakenings in one long stream of alternate realities. The outcome can be very confusing, where you end up grasping for some sense of what’s real. This phenomenon has inspired many books and movies, the most famous of which is probably Groundhog Day. False awakenings may be more common when you practice lucid dreaming techniques. Trust me – that is a good thing! They are perfect opportunities to initiate a lucid dream
