Common false awakening.
As long as I can remember I have experienced false awakening .
All the years before I have classified false awakening as a special
sort of dream and I did not take it worth while to spend deeper thoughts
about this kind of dream. The point of view changed, when I developed false
awakening as a technique to achieve OBEs, a technique which worked very
well and became a preferred method to start OBEs. By this way I gained
deeper insight in the mechanism of false awakening.
Let us first start with the common form of false awakening and see how
it looks like. Here are some examples:
"I left my bed, went into the kitchen,
then back and dressed myself. When I was dressed I went into the living
room. By chance I looked at my legs and astonished and frustrated I saw,
that I was still in my pyjamas. Therefore I went back into my bedroom and
put on my clothes a second time. Again in the kitchen to have some coffee
I discovered that I still was in my pyjamas. I became very angry and still
was angry after awoken."
"I was in the bath room, brushed my teeth, put
on my clothes, went into the kitchen and afterwards into the hall. I just
was busy to put on my shoes, when the alarm clock started to ring. I awoke
and lay in my bed, having thoughts about all that morning activity which
I now had to do for a second time."
Reported from Staci (USA)
"The most recent false awakenings have been during
the past month, and they have been virtually identical. I am asleep (naps,
mainly) and decide it's time to wake up. I get out of bed and walk out
of my bedroom (which is always exactly as it should be). But as I walk
through my house, it's very different than my real house, and I'm surprised
that my house is much nicer than I thought it was! Then I find myself waking
up again, and repeating my actions. And then again. Sometime between the
second and third "awakening", I realize that I'm dreaming. By the 4th or
5th awakening, I'm beginning to become frightened that I won't be able
to wake up again, because every time I do "wake", it feels so real that
I don't know I'm dreaming until I'm out of bed and walking through the
house. I never "do" anything, just walk through the house.
Usually I have 5 awakenings, but the last time
it was 7. Towards the end of these, I'm completely aware that I'm sleeping,
although it hasn't occurred to me to try to direct the dream because it
has always tended to turn into a nightmare that I can't wake up from. Until
the last dream. I realized I wasn't as afraid. I began checking myself
during each waking, asking questions like, "Does this really look like
my house?" And the answer was no, so I knew I was still asleep.
What is very strange about this last series of
f.a. is that although I know I'm asleep, I become afraid that I won't be
able to wake up because of the loop I seem to get stuck in, over and over
again. It feels like one part of my brain is fully conscious and the other
is deep in REM sleep. The conscious part becomes afraid that the sleeping
part won't be able to join it, to get back in sync. I feel like there are
literally "2" of me.
Anyway, when I wake for real from these, I am
slightly paralyzed. I cannot open my eyes or move, but I lay there and
wonder if I'm really awake this time. After a few minutes, I cautiously
open my eyes and do something like look at the clock or turn on the light
(something I don't do in f.a.) and even though I know I'm really awake,
it's still many hours until the feeling of the experience leaves me.
I have had lucid dreams before, partly and fully,
but even when I'm fully lucid and directing the dream, I still never feel
as completely conscious as I do in false awakening."
(Staci)
Chris: I had a similar experience where I had
5 consecutive false awakenings at 7 AM. Every time I went back to sleep
and when i woke up it was 7 AM. Finally i realized that it was my destiny
to wake up at 7AM and then I got up and it was really 7 AM. It was so vivid...
i think it was an OBE...
Alfred: I believe that the false awakenings
are unconscious OBEs - that's the reason why it is simple to transform
them into a conscious OBE; - if you are successful to influence the false
awakening as far as it acts with something like meditation or imagination
or concentration (even if this practices were done in a dull state of mind),
because this mental occupation will increase your awareness of your state.
Further examples: OBE Letter 473">
This common form of false awakening is observed by many people.
Because the action is not dramatic, false awakening usually is classified
as a kind of dream, in which you realize subconsciously the morning time
and the expected occupations which have to follow.
"Vorbote".
By observing several features of false awakening as an OBE pre-state
I now have come to a total different conclusion as I had before: false
awakening is no dream, but an unconscious state of OBE. This hypothesis
of mine is sustained by a special kind of clairvoyant observation of a
human double (etheric body). This observation in German is called "Vorbote"
(perhaps it is called "harbinger" or "forerunner" in English - I do not
know the English term). The "Vorbote" is the observation of the double
of an other person. This person, actually coming home, unconsciously
announces himself at home by means of his spirit body (exactly etheric
body), producing some times a kind of poltergeist phenomenon, because you
can hear the traps, some sounds of the coat etc. This phenomenon very often
is reported in the northern regions of Europe (in Norway it's called vardøger)
and several people get as used to it, that they have no further thoughts
about that fact, but start to prepare the lunch for the husband, who has
announced his coming by this way. For several times my mother in law has
observed such an announcement of mine and has told me about - so this are
not alone theoretic considerations of mine.
German
written examples of the "Vorbote" (forerunner)
An example from a letter (Letter 320):
" ... I went to bed although I was not really tired and everyone else in the house
was asleep. Something made me sit up and look towards the hallway. At
that time I saw my mother standing there as plain as day with her hand on
the light-switch to the kitchen, and she was staring at me but not moving.
I asked her if I had somehow awakened her up. There was no answer, but she
was no longer standing there, only darkness in the empty hallway.
....I definitely got up and awakened my mother, asking her if she had been
standing in the hallway previously. She said no, and she could not explain
that incident ...."
False awakening as a pre-state of OBE.
The false awakening as a pre-state of OBEs in principle is identical
to common false awakening, but differs in some small details. In false
awakening used as an OBE technique your mind is not occupied with your
common morning actions. Instead your mind is occupied with the meditation,
which you have started before falling asleep. When you fall asleep you
are in deep relaxation and very suggestible - somehow this state reminds
to autohypnosis. As a result the thoughts with which you are occupied in
this state, are of posthypnotic quality. For that reason, after a sleep
period, in the phase of awakening, will come the state of false awakening,
as a reproduction of the situation which was ("autohypnotic") engraved
in your mind, letting you continue automatically the same meditation,
which was interrupted when you fell asleep.
The fact that the stereotypic automatic actions now are no daywork,
like in common false awakening, but are actions now dealing with concentration
and/or repeating OBE inducing imaginations, lets your awareness increase
until you are full aware of your state. Then your brain has nearly the
same activity as in day-time (perhaps except some features like sleep paralysis
etc.), though you are still in the same state of false awakening.
May be as a result of higher awareness or what ever may be the reason,
there is an additional significant difference to common false awakening:
you are less egocentric, you start to observe your surrounding, you recognize
changed situations, changed objects or features of the room and you often
get aware that you are not alone as it should be, but that other persons
are in the room.
Examples for false awakening used as OBE pre-state:
False
awakening examples at the end of the article "OBE Inducing Methods Based
on Movement Imagination"
Concerning the persons of which you become aware in this state, some
very interesting questions stay to be explored: of which kind are the "persons"
you see in false awakening? - are they imaginations, are they psychogons
(mental pseudo living forms), are they real spirits or are all previous
mentioned kinds possible?
"I sat in my easy chair. It was about
3 o'clock in the morning. I was meditating, fell asleep and now I continued
my meditation, having the feeling of being awake. With my eyes closed I
became aware of A., I suppose it was A., crossing the room. She switched
on the lamp and my sight brightened to an orange color, just as it is,
when light shines through your closed eyelids. Then she left the room and
I went on with my meditation, until I felt the lightness as it is typical
when your consciousness has shifted into the subtle body.
In the morning I asked A. what was going on in
the night. She told me, that she did not come into the living room, where
I was sitting. Thus it became evident, that I was in the state of false
awakening. (In meditation you very often have visions of light.)"
"Having consumed too much coffee, after the first
sleep, I now was totally awake. No chance to fall asleep again. Therefore
I left the bed and sat down into my easy chair, comfortably and keeping
me warm with a blanket. To stop my restless thoughts I started to meditate.
Some time had passed, maybe I had some sleep in
the meantime, I heard G.A. come close to me (I had a kind of space feeling,
as I call it, which is a kind of shape and color awareness in an nother
way as the common vision). Well, G.A. had died 15 years ago, but now I
did not get aware of that fact - she visits me very often in this state,
so that subconsciously in this state she is still alive to me.
"Stay off sitting in the chair and go to bed",
she told me, "it's already 4 o'clock".
I opened my eyes, my physical ones, left the chair
and went to bed and realized that I had missed my OBE pre-state.
I never have a sleep paralysis in the state
of false awakening and I have to take care to move the right body, if I
want to OBE. In this case I was not aware of my state and thus moved my
physical body."
Just a hint how to trigger the time for sufficient
OBE suggestion effects:
If you want to start an OBE by means of the
"false awakening method" you have to meditate or keep your suggestive imagination
for at least half an hour in order to induce a posthypnotic effect. (If
everything runs well you will continue your intentions in the state of
false awakening after the sleep phase.) Very often, however, I fall asleep
after some few minutes and I have no false awakening and no OBE either.
For that reason, if I am very eager for an OBE, I take a cup of coffee
at the early evening. That keeps me sufficient long awake to make my meditation
or imagination suggestive, so that the coming of false awakening and a
following OBE (stepping out of the physical) is probable.
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