False awakenings - your experiences

[Timandra]

Hi! I would like to know:

What is your most amazing, or scariest or strangest false awakening? I will start with one of my own.
I woke up in my own bedroom, the door was wide open (never the case) and a dark very scary figure the size of a human being was standing there. Then he jumped on top of me in one movement! I grabbed around me to get hold of him because he seemed to be in a rage, and when I got hold of him and had a good look, it was a dachshund!  I calmed him down and went downstairs because I wanted to put him outside. It all went very dreamlike after that, downstairs it didn't look like my house. I had another FA that was almost the same, only then the "monster" was a ginger cat. 

[EscapeVelocity]

Hi Timandra,

That's interesting. I had a similar event a few months ago. Middle of the night, I "woke" just enough to realize I was in sleep paralysis (which I guess is a false awakening) to find a little 6 or 7 year old girl, blonde hair, blue and white dress, standing at the foot of my bed smiling at me. I thought, "hello" and she instantly transformed into a man leering at me with seemingly malevolent intent. Okay, stay cool I thought, and I raised my hand to blast him with a cosmic bolt (always wanted to try that). Well my cosmic bolt passed through his chest with no more effect than a vortex swirl, whereupon he grinned even more evilly and reached out to grab me by the shoulders and start shaking me violently. Okay, stay cool and figure out plan #2, I thought. So, taking a bit of a chance I hit him with a full body wave of Light, Love and Humor...whereupon he instantly vanished and was replaced by 3 kittens tumbling onto my bed, followed by a big, fat tabby that rolled onto its back, expecting me to rub its tummy...which I did as I sunk back to sleep.

A little lesson in Fear and Response from my subconscious/ higher Self?lol

Be well, EV

[TofuAttack]

well it started with me in a building with people trying to kill me, i got a few of them and towards the end i got cornered and i gave in and he shot me in the head. then my vison became distorted and it felt like tv/radio signals were going through my head, then i woke up.... but in a strange room i'd never been in before and in front of me was a large, static skeleton figure holding a red chair about to smash it over me.

and then i woke up for real.. strangely nothing in this entire dream even scared me in the faintest, i just accepted my death when it came.

[Xanth]

I'll just recount my most recent one... nothing super strange, but it did freak me out that I thought I was late for work!

I initially woke up Sunday morning at 7am... I thought I had to get up for work, but then I remembered that it was Sunday! \o/
That's probably one of the best feelings in the world... realizing that you don't really have to get up yet and can go back to sleep.

Anyway, I fell back asleep and woke up again... I looked at the clock and it said 11:30am. I thought, "Wow, that's kinda late, I should probably get up..."
For one reason or another, I didn't get up and drifted back to sleep, which I woke up AGAIN and it was 9:30am. O_o That's when it hit me that the 2nd time I woke up, I really didn't wake up at all. I was in the non-physical with Dream Awareness.

[Timandra]

Great experiences, thanks for sharing EV, TofuAttack and Xanth. I think FA's are very interesting. Sometimes I have dream awareness, and I have no clue that I'm sleeping, and yet the bedroom really looks like my bedroom. But other times I am lucid and it's more like a projection and yet I can be in a different bedroom and not be aware of that.

And yes, perhaps they were lessons in fear and to learn how to deal with it in the NP. 

[CFTraveler]

I really haven't had any scary false awakenings, just annoying.  I can't count the times I've woken up only to try to make toast and have my hands go through the toaster or the bread.

[Timandra]

Yes I also had a few of those. When I have an appointment early in the morning I have to set my alarm. And then a lot of times I have a FA, where I get up too late because my alarm didn't work. However I have never had that my hands go through things in FA's. 

[c0sm0nautt]

Cool thread =D

I actually just posted about a crazy night I had in the main forum (which includes a false awakening and battle with a Vampire). I can remember a lot of these and pull even more out of my journal. Hmm, I remember one where there were tons of bees and other insects flying around my room! In another my ceiling turned into a really nice nature scene with trees and birds. False awakenings, for me, are always part of long multi-part dreams during more than usual active nights of dreaming.

[Timandra]

I have read about your adventure with the vampire and your FA, very interesting and quite scary!

False awakenings, for me, are always part of long multi-part dreams during more than usual active nights of dreaming.

Same with me, usually I have them after a dream or OBE, or in between 2 OBE's. 

[Alakazam]

I really haven't had any scary false awakenings, just annoying.  I can't count the times I've woken up only to try to make toast and have my hands go through the toaster or the bread.

Hah! I've had the same experience. Always funny, but always annoying, too.

[grzazek]

When I become lucid in dreams I have this obsession with diving through the floor, like diving into a pool. Recently after diving through the floor, I dived into a room full of sepia colour, and I was a super hero. The results are always different/entertaining. After my lucid dream I woke up naturally but fell asleep again quickly. After this I literelly had 10-15 false awakenings in a row, to the point where I was getting thoroughly p*ssed off with not being able to actually stay awake.

[Timandra]

Wow, 10 to 15 in a row is really a lot!

[floriferous]

...After this I literelly had 10-15 false awakenings in a row....

For me this was the reason for the false awakening being scary. For me it happened about 5 times in a row and I thought I was stuck in a groundhog day loop  - I thought I woke up and felt groggy so stood to put some clothes on then suddenly I was back in bed waking up. Fine I thought. Just a false awakening. I got up and went to put some clothes on then was suddenly back in bed again. I remember being a little worried at this point. I got up once more to find once again I am suddenly back in bed. Now I'm pretty worried. It happened once more which left me frantic. I think this was the reason I broke it finally.

For those few moments I was absolutely excrement scared I was stuck forever.

[Timandra]

For me this was the reason for the false awakening being scary. For me it happened about 5 times in a row and I thought I was stuck in a groundhog day loop  - I thought I woke up and felt groggy so stood to put some clothes on then suddenly I was back in bed waking up. Fine I thought. Just a false awakening. I got up and went to put some clothes on then was suddenly back in bed again. I remember being a little worried at this point. I got up once more to find once again I am suddenly back in bed. Now I'm pretty worried. It happened once more which left me frantic. I think this was the reason I broke it finally.

For those few moments I was absolutely excrement scared I was stuck forever.

I can imagine that you felt worried and scared! (Groundhog day lol.) What you can do is to teach yourself to do Reality Checks as soon as you wake up. (irl) Then you may do it as well in FA's and you will become aware. I do rc's (push one hand in the other one) and this week it helped me to become aware that I was in an FA. 
Thanks for your story!

[Ketsuyume]

I remember once as a teenager waking up but being stuck in sleep paralysis. I tried to move but couldn't. My TV was in front of my eyes, though, and all of a sudden (even though it was off), little green stick figures (more like polygonal figures), started marching into the screen from one side, and little blue polygons started marching in from the other. The green men seemed to be beating the blue men, but I noticed every time I tried to move and waved my "dream" hands or legs in front of the TV, another little blue man would pop out from the top of the TV and fall down to help that side battle. At the very end I wasn't fast enough and one green man was all that was left after the little 20 second war in my television. With that he turned to me, leapt OUT of the TV and grew to be HUGE (my size), as he landed right on my stomach with his feet.

I didn't feel anything, but the moment he would have made contact with what would have been my stomach, I was instantly snapped out of my sleep paralysis and shot STRAIGHT up out of bed saying, "Whoa!"

I know... it's a really strange story. xD

-K

[Timandra]

Thank you Ketsuyume for your story, very interesting to read. Yes, it is strange but not stranger than a lot of other ones I have read! 

[djvtech]

I woke up in my own bedroom, the door was wide open (never the case) and a dark very scary figure the size of a human being was standing there.

Weird, I've had a couple. I remember one was very scary, I thought I woke up, the room was dim like morning, there was a dark grey figure sitting on my bed in the fetal position, then when I noticed it, it floated up into the air and to the ceiling and was waving its arms and legs around like it was being thrown by wind, then out the room and down the hallway. Woke up after that. This really scared me for some reason.

[Timandra]

This really scared me for some reason.

The reason is very normal, you think you're awake and see weird things that you don't normally see. Your mind can't find another occasion to compare it with, so it is new and scary. That's what I think. And thank you for the story.