The BIG FA topic

[lone wolf]

I have never had an FA tha though I really want one. They sound really fun. I hope I get one soon.

[Sureal]

You probably have, but fell back to sleep in the FA and never realised.

Try taking a RC everytime you wake up. You'll either then realise you have more FA's than you thought, or you'll start getting FA's. Either way, it's free LD's .

[stargirl]

ever since a FA ruined a chance of a good LD, i've been doing RCs everytime i wake up....really successful
in my most recent and vivid LD, i had 3 FAs!!!

[Doba]

heh... I wonder why I didn't notice this thread before (!).

I love those FAs Simply because they've gotten me lucid (relatively) many times... I have a feeling that I have a lot of them though. I tend to wake up many times each morning... And when I finally get up from bed I think back at those awakenings and wonder if they were real or not. Hehe... I guess it brings a little mystery to my life.

Last night I had an LD. I "woke up" into another dream after it, and throughout that long dream I kept telling peeps in my old highschool class about my LD... My mind really tricked me there

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[Siiw]

I usually get two kinds of FA's: those where I am writing down a dream or telling somebody about it, and those where I am too late for my bus or work. They come more often if I am afraid of actually being late. Maybe that could be used to incubate more FA's?

lone wolf: It is possible to have a FA without noticing it. I think you will get one soon if you continue to pay attention.

[Sureal]

I managed to incurburate a FA before. However, it's debatable whether or not I had really woken up beforehand, or whether that was also a FA.

[Xetrov]

I actually once thought of a method to cause FA's to become lucid. It involved setting an alarm clock on a random time, so that when you dream, you will be constantly (perhaps unconsciously) thinking "oh the alarm might go off". I had a FA that led to a LD once this way so that's why I thought of it. I haven't tried it yet though.

[saeghwin]

I almost always have a kind of FA where I am talking to a friend about the lucid dream, it usually happens after I lose the lucidity. Sometimes I have mini-FA's where I just hear the alarm go off and I kind of remember looking at it or getting up and then sitting up in bed--not vivid--and then I kind of jolt up suddenly after I realize I wasn't actually awake.

[Doba]

Hm... I had another 3 FAs this morning :\

In the first I wrote an SMS. (When I checked my mobile later, no message had been written)

In the second I did a RC and became lucid

In the third I got out of bed, wearing jeans (which I obviously really wasnt).

[Doba]

Just a question for you guys:

Are you tired in your FAs?

Until yesterday I had always been very fresh when I "woke up" in my FAs. But yesterday I was so insanely tired in at least on of them. I remember that I was struggling to open my eyes. I decided to do a RC. Usually I count my fingers, but since I was too tired to open my eyes, I did the bread-through-the-nose-while-holding-it RC. Even after I became lucid I still was very, very tired...

[markmarijnissen]

Sometimes I have those brief awakenings at night, and i feel myself immediatly drifting off to sleep.
Sometimes I feel vibrations... and I'll try to WILD from that. I either fall asleep or get a couple of FA's (which i realised later)

could it be that the whole WILD attempt and brief waking up is a FA?
Or only the brief waking up, and everything beyond that a FA?
weird!!

I'm going to try, when i wake up, not to move my body (it remains extremely tired then).. and try to stay awake, and after a while i may be dreaming a FA.. i'm going to try this!

[Brambleburr]

lol, false awakening is the ***~
Once when i realized that i was dreaming, i woke up immideatley.
I started complaining loud, and woke my cousins who were sleeping on the floor (0.o). Then i explained that i had an LD but woke up, and then i woke up IRL....
FA's are soo annoying xD

[Basilus West]

[Julian Iron]

[Skidzz]

I almost always wake up immediately after becoming lucid or slightly after after trying to delay it with spinning etc. I read a week ago that most of the time it can be an FA that you awake in, so I was pretty bummed, I'm sure I missed out. I have to make a habit of RCing every time I wake up! Two nights ago I went lucid and woke up after fighting it, and RCed like 5 times because I did not want to miss out again. I believe that lucidity would be better, since FA's are incredibly real for me. It's like being awake and then blinking and being awake, but elsewhere!!