FALSE AWAKENING: FALSE AWAKENING DREAMS
A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep.
It is our ability to think clearly in a false awakening that causes us to assume we’re awake. We’re not awake, we’re aware. If you doubt it, you’re dreaming. If you don’t know if you’re dreaming or not, especially after getting out of bed, you’re probably dreaming.
How to Wake up From a False Awakening
- Try opening and closing your eyes repeatedly …. eventually your real eyes will crack open and break the dream.
- Stare at one object with focus… it may morph and change, but usually the focus wakes up the part of the brain (the forebrain) that moves us into the waking state.