Near death experience of Howard Storm

[Alex K]

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.

I've had that one too, but only two layers. I recall one from my childhood where it took a handful of false awakenings until Iwas finally awake. I realized within my dreams that I still wasn't awake because the lampshade in my bedroom had the wrong colour or rather, was colourless.