[tyclislavaify]

hi,

i'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on how to interpret false awakenings? this happens quite often to me, where i thought i woke up, but it turns out i'm still dreaming. sometimes i would have a dream within a dream within a dream.

here's a funny example of a lucid dream with false awakening:

i'm sitting in my kitchen table eating breakfast with my family. then i said to everyone "we're in a dream right now," and i suddenly became lucid. i throw my food and slammed the table against the wall. i tell my family, "i can do that because i'm dreaming." then i run out to my back yard and fly up to a tree. i'm doing qigong on a tree branch, but i keep floating up. i decide to jump off the tree and do qigong on the ground. as i land, my vision starts to fade and i wake up. i'm now in bed, and i walk out to the kitchen to get breakfast. i see the kitchen table flipped over, and my family is cleaning up the mess. i wonder to myself, "wtf? i thought it was just a dream." then i wake up again.

false awakenings usually happens when i'm in a lucid dream. but i also have many regular dreams where i wake up and write in my dream journal, only to find i'm still dreaming (the words i write keep changing or the journal is different somehow).

speaking of qigong... every time i practice qigong in a lucid dream, i end up floating upwards. i've tried it over 10 times, and every time i can't stay grounded. i told my friend to try, and he reported the same thing. anyone else have this experience? anyone have any explanations?

thanks!