A false awakening is a vivid scenario in which a person dreams that they have woken up while they are actually still asleep, often going on to dream through an ordinary morning routine such as showering or eating breakfast. A false awakening that follows a dream already in progress takes on the character of a dream within a dream, a device used fictionally in the double false awakening of the protagonist of Gogol 1835 story The Portrait. Some studies find false awakenings frequently related to lucid dreaming, with one often turning into the other, though the two are distinguished by awareness: in a lucid dream the dreamer recognizes they are dreaming, while in a false awakening that recognition is absent.
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Core ClaimA false awakening is a vivid scenario in which a person dreams that they have woken up, while still actually asleep. 1 Classification
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A false awakening is a vivid scenario in which a person dreams that they have woken up, while still actually asleep.
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Some studies have shown that false awakenings are frequently related to lucid dreaming, often transitioning into one another.
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