False Awakenings in Lucid Dreams

How to prevent False Awakenings –  By Ryan Hurd – Dream Studies Portal – http://dreamstudies.org/2010/05/04/how-to-stop-false-awakening-dreams/

“False Awakening

A false awakening may occur following a dream or following a lucid dream (one in which the dreamer has been aware of dreaming). Particularly, if the false awakening follows a lucid dream, the false awakening may turn into a “pre-lucid dream“,[1] that is, one in which the dreamer may start to wonder if they are really awake and may or may not come to the correct conclusion. In a study by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett, 2,000 dreams from 200 subjects were examined and it was found that false awakenings and lucidity were significantly more likely to occur within the same dream or within different dreams of the same night. False awakenings often preceded lucidity as a cue, but they could also follow the realization of lucidity, often losing it in the process…- Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_awakening 

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