Near death experience of Howard Storm

[Excited Penguin]

Ok, but there's such a thing as a false awakening. You wake up, everything seems normal, you start thinking about your dream or do other stuff only to realise at one point that you're still dreaming, or to actually wake up from that.

So you're familiar with lucid dreaming? You can apply certain techniques to both prolong these dreams, have better recall of them, more awareness while you're dreaming, and so on, you know?

One of the scariest things that happens to me on occasion is telescoping false awakenings.  As in, false waking upwards of 10 or 20 times in a single dream.  A lot of times, when I'm asleep but have to pee, I'll dream about waking up and peeing, and then I'll realize I still have to pee, and then I'll wake up and pee... but then realize I still have to pee, and then I'll wake up... and do that a bunch of times.

Sounds like a nightmare to me. You might want to look into performing reality checks a few times a day, so that the practice carries into your subconscious and subsequently into your dreams and so that you can stop this from happening by realising it's only a dream whenever it takes place. A reality check is basically something to make you realise you're actually awake(or not, as the case might be). Like trying to look at your reflection in the mirror, or counting your fingers, or looking at the same piece of writing twice and checking whether anything changed about it - it's different for everyone, and as I understood it, some parts of the brain that are generally inhibited during dreams might sometimes act up(or in some people) - like the ability to better comprehend writing and such. But basically, yeah, that's all there is to it, at a very basic level, and people do learn to do it in order to overcome nighmarish dreams. I don't do it for that reason but I know others do.