Annoying False Awakening Teaches Me A Lesson

For the past few months, I've had a recurring dream that I wake up and I'm lying in bed. Somehow I become lucid, either because of remembering the previous dream, or perhaps the cause is unknown.

I suddenly have the urge to get up out of bed, but as soon as I turn to my left, I realize that there's a problem with my vision. It's as if it's impossible for me to look around, and I can only see what I would see if I was still lying on my back.

To cut a long story short, it's gotten to the point where lately I'll just attempt to fly up from my bed so I can get up and explore my lucid dream. However, there have been some problems with that too. So the other night, as I was trying to do this, I accidentally woke my self up in the process. I mean, as soon as I moved my head I instantly went from dream to reality.

Well, the next morning when I once again entered the false awakening lucid dream, I remembered the previous mistake I had made in the dream the morning before. So what I did this time was easy. I simply layed there, knowing full well that if I patiently waited long enough, that dream would fall apart and I would enter another dream.

I kept that thought in mind, and as I did so, the dream did indeed change. It's been an important lesson to me once again, not to try to change the dream so fast, but instead to ease back and go along for the ride!