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False awakenings are pretty common, especially if you're trying to practice lucid dreaming. I have 5 or 6 in a row occasionally. It's always very disorienting when you ACTUALLY wake up. (or did you?)

>>1276
How did you achieve that? I would like to do this.

Sounds schway but i'm quite sure it wouldn't be nice for me. With all that realistic nightmares i've been having lately i'm kinda scared about false awakenings.

>>1278
From what I've heard, it's only something that occurs unintentionally. I don't believe it can occur intentionally, for then it would just be a layered dream (is this what you meant?) rather than consecutive false awakenings.

One time I was taking a 15 min nap but fell asleep and was trying to wake up thus causing me to have a couple layers of false awakenings, sleep paralysis included. I also had a layered dream once, a normal dream in which, at one point, I went to sleep and had a lucid dream that ended when a character from the normal dream woke me up.

Layer one:
>dream something I can't remember
>realize I fell asleep and I have to study in waking life
>purposely wake up
Layer two:
>in my mom's house, it's dark
>step out of bed, see my mom and follow her
>see her walk towards her bed and disappear
>she reappears in bed, sleeping
>realize this is still a dream
>ask her what can I do to wake up
>wake up
Layer three:
>in my bed
>through the semi-opened door I see a stranger entering the apartament
>he goes to the kitchen out of my field of view
>I get scared and try to stand up, moving is really difficult
>my muscles feel non-responsive and heavy
>seeing is difficult, like I had sand thrown into my eyes
>I do a lot of noise, like a drunk guy trying to get up and hitting everything
>the guy must have heard me
>wake up
Layer zero:
>in my bed
>I'm tired, my heart is beating like a drum
>do a couple reality checks
>haven't woken up from this layer yet

When this happened I didn't know about sleep paralysis.
I get it that the brain paralizes the body so you don't enact your dreams while asleep, but the scary visions that come with it are plain evil.

>>1281
I don't think I've had multiple awakenings yet, but I have suffered from very realistic nightmares I believed to be true before.

>>1277
Oddly enough I'm not.
I could to it sometimes only, like in layer two,and (not really sure) layer one.
>>1278
I have no idea, it just happened.

My recurring version is:

> alarm sounds, wake up
> curse the fact that I have to get out of bed
> start getting ready for the day
> alarm sounds, wake up again
> curse the fact that now I have to go through the torment of morning again
> start getting ready for the day all over again
> alarm sounds

This will happen like six times, maybe more.

Just had this happen too OP.
>>1298
>>1299

>>1287
Try turning off your alarm for a day (weekend, holiday, etc) and, assuming you remember you disabled it, when this false awakening occurs you'll merely awaken into a lucid dream. You have a great opportunity- don't waste it.

>>1283
>in my bed
>I'm tired, my heart is beating like a drum
>do a couple reality checks
>haven't woken up from this layer yet
This is my only layer pretty much all the time.

>>1303
Interesting suggestion. I just realized that this layered dream hasn't happened to me in a while because I'm a born again NEET with no reason to wake up at any time. The problem with your idea is that if I knew I didn't need to be woken up to get to work or school, I wouldn't have that dream in the first place. It's caused by the anxiety of knowing that the alarm is coming in the first place.

>>1305
Damn it.