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		<title>By: Andy</title>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-217948</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, I&#039;d like to inform you about my latest false awakening AND lucid dream. I&#039;m currently a 15 year old boy.

False Awakening:

If I recall correctly, my false awakening had happened around 10~20 times in the same night, as multiple times I had attempted to leave my bed and walk out of my room. Around the last few times, I was most successful, as I was able to leave my room, enter my mom&#039;s room, and enter her closet. I even went to the extent of rummaging through her items, and unraveling her diploma. I did this in an attempt to differentiate between reality and my realm of dreams. To this day, I can remember having around two or three sorts of dreams along the line of a &quot;false awakening.&quot; Sometimes I would put effort into waking up, by trying to yell or move my body.  

Lucid Dream

Being 15 years old, you can infer that I&#039;m new to high school. I actually had the chance of exploring around my school, going through various rooms, all when I was aware I was dreaming. It seems as soon as I try something that&#039;s incapable of my capacity in real life (ex. flying) I either wake up or my degree of lucid dream decreases by a significant amount. There was no ominous or scary part in particular of this Lucid dream, however it was the most vivid in my imagination. 

Unknown Category

This dream was most likely, in my opinion, the scariest. I was dreaming, however could see around my room. I was unable to move around, for I was paralysed within my bed. All of a sudden, colors started flashing in my head and weird sounds, which were identified/related most to traditional Mexican music, weirdly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, I&#8217;d like to inform you about my latest false awakening AND lucid dream. I&#8217;m currently a 15 year old boy.</p>
<p>False Awakening:</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, my false awakening had happened around 10~20 times in the same night, as multiple times I had attempted to leave my bed and walk out of my room. Around the last few times, I was most successful, as I was able to leave my room, enter my mom&#8217;s room, and enter her closet. I even went to the extent of rummaging through her items, and unraveling her diploma. I did this in an attempt to differentiate between reality and my realm of dreams. To this day, I can remember having around two or three sorts of dreams along the line of a &#8220;false awakening.&#8221; Sometimes I would put effort into waking up, by trying to yell or move my body.  </p>
<p>Lucid Dream</p>
<p>Being 15 years old, you can infer that I&#8217;m new to high school. I actually had the chance of exploring around my school, going through various rooms, all when I was aware I was dreaming. It seems as soon as I try something that&#8217;s incapable of my capacity in real life (ex. flying) I either wake up or my degree of lucid dream decreases by a significant amount. There was no ominous or scary part in particular of this Lucid dream, however it was the most vivid in my imagination. </p>
<p>Unknown Category</p>
<p>This dream was most likely, in my opinion, the scariest. I was dreaming, however could see around my room. I was unable to move around, for I was paralysed within my bed. All of a sudden, colors started flashing in my head and weird sounds, which were identified/related most to traditional Mexican music, weirdly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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		<title>By: taniaaust1</title>
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		<dc:creator>taniaaust1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,  I just found your site after having multiple false awakenings last night.  This is the third time this has happened to me in the past few months (I suspect due to some sleep meds Im on).

 Thing is its made me unsure if Im awake or not right now.  Everytime Ive worken up, it turned out to be a false awakening.  What if Im still in that state right now?  

 Im trying to look for odd things to try to work out if Im now properly awake or not and a couple of odd things have happened. eg Someone who was supposed to show up at my house didnt arrive.  Ive also had some synchronisity things happen since I last awoke so Im now wondering if the day Im now experiencing is just another false awakening in the run of them Im having now?

 If you replied .. that still wouldnt tell me if this is real or not as subconciously I can manifest a reply.  Im feeling so so confused and now cant tell what is real and what isnt.  I had an anxiousity attack earlier over this but have decided Im not going to let it worry me.. whether Im currently in a false awakening or not.

 My false awakenings were basically just daily events... annoying as when each time I work out its a false awakening and go back to sleep. I wake up only to then have to go and start repeating all my daily stuff again due to believing im awake.

 The memory test you mentioned dont work for me as I have an illness in which my waking life memory is affected anyway so cant remember my phone number in waking life and in my dream state, I can remember my house address.  I can even read things in my dream state okay and the letters dont blur or change.

 I&#039;ll start trying the threshold thing to try to work out if Im awake or not.

 I used to be a regular lucid dreamer and quite good with that.. but the thing is I tended to KNOW i was asleep or became aware of it while in the state, so didnt have the issue Im having now. 

 Im finding that to be a completely different experience to this waking up over and over stuff and each time thinking it is real.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,  I just found your site after having multiple false awakenings last night.  This is the third time this has happened to me in the past few months (I suspect due to some sleep meds Im on).</p>
<p> Thing is its made me unsure if Im awake or not right now.  Everytime Ive worken up, it turned out to be a false awakening.  What if Im still in that state right now?  </p>
<p> Im trying to look for odd things to try to work out if Im now properly awake or not and a couple of odd things have happened. eg Someone who was supposed to show up at my house didnt arrive.  Ive also had some synchronisity things happen since I last awoke so Im now wondering if the day Im now experiencing is just another false awakening in the run of them Im having now?</p>
<p> If you replied .. that still wouldnt tell me if this is real or not as subconciously I can manifest a reply.  Im feeling so so confused and now cant tell what is real and what isnt.  I had an anxiousity attack earlier over this but have decided Im not going to let it worry me.. whether Im currently in a false awakening or not.</p>
<p> My false awakenings were basically just daily events&#8230; annoying as when each time I work out its a false awakening and go back to sleep. I wake up only to then have to go and start repeating all my daily stuff again due to believing im awake.</p>
<p> The memory test you mentioned dont work for me as I have an illness in which my waking life memory is affected anyway so cant remember my phone number in waking life and in my dream state, I can remember my house address.  I can even read things in my dream state okay and the letters dont blur or change.</p>
<p> I&#8217;ll start trying the threshold thing to try to work out if Im awake or not.</p>
<p> I used to be a regular lucid dreamer and quite good with that.. but the thing is I tended to KNOW i was asleep or became aware of it while in the state, so didnt have the issue Im having now. </p>
<p> Im finding that to be a completely different experience to this waking up over and over stuff and each time thinking it is real.</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Hurd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Hurd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you&#039;re safe. lucid dreaming is usually experiences as something exciting and positive --- most people fly when they learn they are dreaming. do not let worry eat you up. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you&#8217;re safe. lucid dreaming is usually experiences as something exciting and positive &#8212; most people fly when they learn they are dreaming. do not let worry eat you up. <img src='http://dreamstudies.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Hurd</title>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-191887</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Hurd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hey Eumie, I don&#039;t see it as soul versus body, but rather a strong conscious expectation to be in your bedroom when really you are still in a dream. The single best test is the reading test, which Stephen LaBerge talks about.  read some words -- look away-- and then look back.  usually, dream words shift. the linguistic brain is highly active in this state, and words are just shifty. give it a try next tim -- and then wake yourself up for real!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey Eumie, I don&#8217;t see it as soul versus body, but rather a strong conscious expectation to be in your bedroom when really you are still in a dream. The single best test is the reading test, which Stephen LaBerge talks about.  read some words &#8212; look away&#8211; and then look back.  usually, dream words shift. the linguistic brain is highly active in this state, and words are just shifty. give it a try next tim &#8212; and then wake yourself up for real!</p>
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		<title>By: Eumie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eumie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s so weird, I woke up the 6th time, talked to my room mate who was playing poker online, when his poker rang, I saw myself sleeping in my bed, I woke up again, and his poker rang again and I saw myself again lying in my bed... It happened 4 more times until I decided not to rise and just call the name of my room mate.. That was when I was genuinely awake.. Nevertheless, the false awakenings were so true that I felt so tired when I woke up knowing I woke up 10 times only to find out that my body is still asleep... Is it possible that my soul woke up but my can&#039;t bring my body to wake up?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s so weird, I woke up the 6th time, talked to my room mate who was playing poker online, when his poker rang, I saw myself sleeping in my bed, I woke up again, and his poker rang again and I saw myself again lying in my bed&#8230; It happened 4 more times until I decided not to rise and just call the name of my room mate.. That was when I was genuinely awake.. Nevertheless, the false awakenings were so true that I felt so tired when I woke up knowing I woke up 10 times only to find out that my body is still asleep&#8230; Is it possible that my soul woke up but my can&#8217;t bring my body to wake up?</p>
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		<title>By: Magdalena</title>
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		<dc:creator>Magdalena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

I&#039;m 14 and I&#039;m from Serbia.Today I&#039;ve heard some of my friends talking about lucid dreaming and false awekening so i decided to find out something more about it.Now when I know more I&#039;m very scared to go to sleep because I don&#039;t want to something like that happen to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m 14 and I&#8217;m from Serbia.Today I&#8217;ve heard some of my friends talking about lucid dreaming and false awekening so i decided to find out something more about it.Now when I know more I&#8217;m very scared to go to sleep because I don&#8217;t want to something like that happen to me.</p>
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		<title>By: Amy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have similar type dreams and what always works for me is holding my breath. It won&#039;t resolve the underlying issue, but it will make you wake up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have similar type dreams and what always works for me is holding my breath. It won&#8217;t resolve the underlying issue, but it will make you wake up!</p>
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		<title>By: Amy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I have false dreams that are terrifying, and can&#039;t wake up because I have no control over my body, I hold my breath. This always works, but it leaves me afraid to go back to sleep because I&#039;m afraid it will happen again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I have false dreams that are terrifying, and can&#8217;t wake up because I have no control over my body, I hold my breath. This always works, but it leaves me afraid to go back to sleep because I&#8217;m afraid it will happen again.</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Hurd</title>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-159142</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Hurd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t worry about it Briana if you haven&#039;t had it... it&#039;s not all that common. Not a curse anyways, but an opportunity to explore the dream world safely!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry about it Briana if you haven&#8217;t had it&#8230; it&#8217;s not all that common. Not a curse anyways, but an opportunity to explore the dream world safely!</p>
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		<title>By: Briana</title>
		<link>http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/comment-page-1/#comment-158453</link>
		<dc:creator>Briana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ryan , 

Can anybody have these dreams, because im 15 &amp; super scared ??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ryan , </p>
<p>Can anybody have these dreams, because im 15 &amp; super scared ??</p>
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