The BIG FA topic

The Wizard · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:24 pm Post subject: The BIG FA topic

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Sometimes after I have a dream I jot down short notes about it on a note card and when I wake up in the morning I expand on it in more detail. However, sometimes I will have a false awakening where I think that I am writing down the dream. When I wake up for real a few hours later, I am disappointed to find out that there is nothing written on my notecard and as a result I forget those dreams. This is a frustrating problem, does anyone have any advice?

sage · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:08 pm Post subject:

Aaargghhh!!! I have the same FAs every now and then. I don't know if there's really a "cure" for them though. I guess you just have to really be committed to waking up and writing down your dream notes. Your body probably doesn't like waking up at 2:30 in the morning, but you just have to make yourself.

Dm7 · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 2:59 am Post subject:

Ha ha ha, sorry that's kinda funny! lach2

Anyways, you have gotta be very commited. Just wake up and MAKE sure that you have it written down... if not... then write it down. grin

You can use your FAs as your sign. If you think you're awake... be careful, you might be still dreaming. (hint... hint)

ClintB24 · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:52 am Post subject:

I used to have the exact same problem until I got into the habit of doing a RC every single time I "wake up". In doing this, you know for sure whether you're asleep or awake. In fact, some of the most vivid, stable LD's I've had have come from my "wake up check". grin

Magius · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:51 am Post subject: Happened today

The same thing happened to me today. I was dreaming and then I thought I woke up, so I grabbed my dream diary next to my bed and wrote down the first few sentences of my dream. Suddenly I woke up again - this time for real - and it was a bit annoying when I realized I had to start writing in the diary all over again.

Magius · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:51 am Post subject: Delete me

Oops. Extra post. Sorry.

Might as well say something else so I don't feel this post was wasted...

I'm just getting back into lucid dreaming after many years so I'm still working on my reality checks, but if you keep doing it as people have suggested, eventually you will catch some of these false awakenings. And it can be quite exciting when you wake up in a realistic version of your room and suddenly realize it's all just a dream. It's like "Ha! Didn't trick me this time, false awakenings! I'm still in a dream!"

grin

Raging_Canadian · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:16 pm Post subject:

The time that happened to me, I remembered what I wrote in my dream journal but it really had nothing to do with dreams:
x=2
I'd say maybe too much studying math but. . . I don't study.(Even my calculus teacher called me a nerd)

Dm7 · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

hehehe, I like that simple solution:

x=2

It's a lot better than complex solutions. lol smile

ClintB24 · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 5:23 am Post subject:

LOL! x=2... that's some funny stuff. Don't ya just LUUUV dreams? lachgroen

And I bet when you "wrote it down" it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time hehe. grin

Pilot · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject:

Writing down my dreams mentally happens so often in the morning, even today. It is frustrating knowing you don't have a single word down. I guess it might help to RC before writing any dream down, along with "wake up check".

tapir · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject:

I sometimes trick myself when I am sooo lazy and try to decide wether I should make some notes or not.I just go into HI (accidently) and imagine making notes, but I don´t really get that this doesn´t work

Sorry if it is too much offtopic, but does this also happen to anyone:

I wake up at night, and I am soooo thirsty.I can´t even go back to sleep, my mouth is completely dry, I really NEED to drink something.
However, I am really sleepy and lazy, it´s like I can´t possibly get up, since I am still almost dreaming.
So, I just try to get back to sleep.Then those weird images start, I imagine myself walking down to the kitchen and getting myself a glas of water, over and over again.And each time I am really frustrated when I realize that I just have done it in my mind...
It´s like a false awakening, until I actually try to drink it, I don´t know that it isn´t real (although I am not sleeping)

Traumgänger

Stokesy · Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject:

kingbud · Posted: Sat May 17, 2003 1:13 pm Post subject:

I had something similar. I had a long dream and near the end i had a reffer then went to bed in the dream, i woke up in the dream the next morrning but thought i was awake i went downstaris and took the phone of this guy who was using it and started telling the guy on the phone about the dream i was still having. I would have thought if you wanted to stop the problem with writing stuff down in dreams just get in the habit of doing a reality check before you write down your dream.

brad. · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

i had a dream where i woke up and started writing the dream down on my mattress sheets and then i woke up again and could barely remember the dream. those are quite aggrivating.

Chronos · Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2003 7:08 am Post subject:

I had a FA recently, my first one, I liked it because it must mean im closer to being Lucid, and thats a good thing.

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