Any readers who have managed by this point to have had a few  lucid dreams will probably also know of the false awakenings and will  know the difficulty of recognizing them for what they are. You appear to awaken and go about your morning business only to discover that you are still dreaming. It is a curious quirk of the process that the more one has lucid dreams the more one experiences these unreal wakings. There seem few satisfactory explanations for this phenomenon. Maybe it happens because dreamers already believe that they are awake, or that the expectancy of really waking up as the lucid dream fades, triggers the effect.

      Whatever the cause there are a variety of methods of overcoming these false awakenings and which allow the dreamer to
 continue dreaming with undiminished consciousness and alert attention. All have one factor in common -- the sensation of rapid or vivid movement. Some lucid dreamers favor whirling or spinning like a top, while others prefer to throw themselves backwards into an abyss or off a cliff.

      The two methods which most appeal to me are simply flying and performing the most spectacular aerobatics, or creating a hanging veil or a door through which you charge at full tilt.

      I have read somewhere that there is indirect evidence that there might be a connection between the vestibular apparatus (the balancing mechanism of the inner ear) and the production of bursts of REM during dreaming. If there is some link, then this might account for vivid dream movements fooling the brain into stimulating more REM sleep and thus more lucid dreaming.

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