Voices

August 29, 2010 I was having an AMC dream. <PERSON> discovered <PERSON> was sleeping with some politician dude. They were getting it on in a car. JR discovered them and had got upset, but this part of the dream faded. False awakening. I "woke up" in bed. I spent a moment lying there and recalling the dream. I was also quite surprised I had fallen asleep again. I did not even feel it coming. Edited for TMI content... I wondered about the possibility of this being a false awakening. I then noticed that, consciously, I did feel different. Fairly positive now that I am dreaming, I thought to myself, "Only one way to check, and that is to get out of bed!" As I slowly rolled over and got out of bed, I marveled about the fact that this really did feel like I was moving my real body. I began to question whether I was truly dreaming or not. I rather felt that getting out of bed would feel floaty, especially since in lucids, I do not normally feel gravity and weighty. This felt exactly like real life. Future note, WILDs may feel exactly like this. Especially when I think I am awake... Anyways, I was thinking a lot about this whole "Am I moving a dream body or my real body?" thing, and I heard a voice in the back of my mind, "Do not over think it, or you WILL wake up too much and move your real body." This voice sounded female, to my surprise (I usually expect <PERSON> to tell me these things). It was probably myself; but in the past, <PERSON> (my first DG, before <PERSON>) often sounded like me... I wonder if this was her, again? I did not spend too much time looking around the room. But I did notice that the bedroom door, positioning of the bed and my endtable were all as they should be. This made me question, again, whether I was lucid or awake. I looked at the clock on my endtable. The numbers should have been a dead give-away. I could barely read the clock... it looked tired-eye bleary and I could not really make out any numbers. I concentrated harder. Does that say 4:41 or 4:48? I rubbed my eyes and looked again. It says 4:48. "I do not have to get up until 5:30," I reminded myself. "This is perfect, I can sleep longer!" Completely forgetting about the false awakening, I crawl back in bed beside <PERSON>. I noticed he was awake and reading something on his phone. We had a short discussion about him not staying up this late and my alarm rang. Alright, so even if I had not gotten distracted, it is not like I could have done much with the lucidity, anyways. My guess is, this all happened just before 5:30, waking time. Maybe about 5:25, but this whole scene felt a bit shorter than 5 minutes. Still, this is a great note for future WILDs... I guess this is considered an INRALD (I am Not Really Awake Lucid Dream)... I thought I was pretty good at determining lucidity by how it feels alone... and normal DILDs, I think that still holds true. But this whole new foray into INRALDing and WILDing... when I honestly think I am awake, it really, really does feel like I am awake! Further proof that I REALLY need to RC upon waking up...