Hi,
Sometimes it gets a bit frightening.
I somehow project and then I return to my body and think I'm awake. Everything seems so real. The texture of the bed, the wood. The room looks perfectly normally and then I wake my wife up beside me and she acts perfectly as I expect her too but all the while I'm still asleep and this has all just been a false awakening.
So, I try to wake myself up and there I am again in the same scenario until I realise I'm still asleep and this can happen 10 times a night and it makes me feel trapped as if I am starting to loose touch with reality and as if reality is just temporary perception.
Somehow I always wake myself up.
What this has led to is a:) the appriciation of how powerful the subconscious mind is because I suppose those whole scenarios were fabrications of my subconsciousness. B:) a contingency plan to somehow wake me up from my dream.
Ok, so setting an alarm to go off 3 hours after you go to bed can prevent this problem but I have been looking for other tecniques such as when I wake up I would say to my wife "am I dreaming". I told her to say "strawberries" if I'm not dreaming.
So, I begin to have false awakenings and I say "am I dreaming" and my wife says "strawberries" so I thought great am not dreaming.
but I was dreaming. some how my subconscious intergrates every contingency plan or idea i have to prevent false awakening into my false awakenings so it's impossible to tell if i'm dreaming.
has anyone got any ideas how A:) use these false awakening to my full advantage, B:) find an exit method to wake up from them?
Has anyone experienced something like this?
Sometimes I can even project from these false awakenings
Stop and think how these can be helpful. The repetitive occurrence may be a test for you to see something you have missed or are a way of answering a question you haven't found the answer to yet.
They are so real too, a subtlety will be present, can you find it?
Thanks szaxx but i'm not sure there is a point to the false awakenings. I think it's just a psyological occurence, an aftermath of projection. if there is a point i think the point would be to teach me to stay calm and neutral and not become all hysterical about the distortion of reality or reality itself.
It may be to show you there's more than the reality that you think is real.
True, but i already know that there are alternate realities so i don't why it's happening. :) I'm just afraid of getting lost in the alternate realities :D
yeah i believe with Szaxx, Reality is what ultimately is; our perception of that reality, is, well, just our particular perception of it - which varies hugely from individual to individual.