False Awakening: Dreaming About Waking Up

photo of a woman dreaming of being awake

Have you ever started your day, only to suddenly wake up back in bed and realize you’d been dreaming about waking up?

Perhaps you got out of bed as normal and started your morning routine, but then snapped out of an imaginary breakfast or journey to work to find yourself back in bed, probably feeling a bit confused by what just happened.

If this sounds familiar, you might have experienced what’s known as a false awakening.

What are false awakenings?

False awakenings are particularly vivid dreams in which you feel like you’ve woken up even though you’re still dreaming. It’s often only when you wake up later – for real this time – that you realize your previous waking was just a dream.

I know from personal experience how confusing it can be as I’ve had false awakenings on numerous occasions. I jokingly call them mini Groundhog days – they don’t tend to last as long as Bill Murray’s day in the movie, but do have that odd feeling of repeating the start of the day sometimes.

a man dreaming he is awake

Thankfully, I don’t have false awakenings as regularly as some people do, but have had several during the last few years.

In this article, I’ll be discussing false awakenings and suggesting some potential ways to cope with them if you find them upsetting.

I’ll also cover some interesting techniques that you could try to help you gain awareness that you’re dreaming. That way, you might be able to use your false awakening as a stepping stone to the fascinating world of lucid dreaming.

False awakening poll

I asked 557 readers about their experience of false awakenings. 59% said they found it distressing. However, 17% said they enjoy it or find it interesting. A further 11% found it can lead to a lucid dream.

infographic showing the results of a reader poll into false awakenings

Too real to be a dream?

One of the fascinating features of a false awakening is just how lifelike it can seem. Even if you have some vague awareness that you’re dreaming, the fact that you’re dreaming about your normal routine might stop you from questioning it further.

The experience often takes the form of waking up and doing something familiar and normal. For example, you might get dressed, go to the bathroom, or sit and have breakfast.

Nested dreams

Some people experience more than one episode before they eventually wake up for real. Repeated false awakenings, a kind of Russian doll of dreams, can happen in one night. This is something that many readers have described in the comments below since first publishing this article.

This extended version of multiple false awakenings is sometimes referred to as nested dreams, or dreams within dreams.

It might sound a bit like the plot of the movie Inception, but these dreams within dreams do happen, and can leave you feeling like you’re trapped inside your dreams.

False awakenings can seem so real that perhaps even on finally waking up, you might need a while to be fully convinced that you’re actually going to eat breakfast this time.

What causes false awakenings?

There isn’t a great deal of published research on false awakenings and what might cause them. When I started investigating the causes of my own episodes, I was surprised to discover a lack of information about them in medical sources.

As if to mirror its own nature, information about false awakenings is often buried inside articles and research about dreaming in general, lucid dreaming, and other sleep disorders.

Let’s consider some ideas that might help explain why they happen.

Worry and anxiety

If you’re thinking or worried about a past or future event in your life, you might find it’s incorporated in some way in your dreams.

For example, the threat simulation theory of dreaming suggests that we sometimes rehearse events in our dreams, particularly threatening events. This can lead to dreaming about possible life events rather than having more fantastical dreams. So it would make sense that we might dream about waking up and going about our everyday life rather than flying about in a fantasy realm.

Some also argue that expectations play a key role in dreaming. If you’re feeling anxious, you might expect to sleep badly and wake up in the night, or need to wake up early for an important day. This anxiety could influence your dream and create a false awakening.

Real events and everyday life

An interesting explanation could lie in the dream protoconsciousness theory. A study in 2011 looked at false awakenings in light of this theory, suggesting that our innate schemes / daily lives feed into dream content. Since we wake up every day as part of our normal routines, waking up itself becomes a concept that we sometimes dream of.

Another fascinating study published in 2021 looked at the content of 528 dreams that people had while in a sleep lab. They found that the sleep lab itself featured in people’s dreams in 40.7% of cases, either as lucid dreams or false awakenings.

Mixed brain states

It’s argued that your brain can be in more than one state of consciousness at once. So it’s possible that the part of your brain responsible for dreaming and also for waking consciousness are both active.

This could then lead to vivid dreaming of gaining consciousness and waking up. Some sleep disorders can lead to this state, as well as environmental factors such as sudden external noise.

This shares some similarities with sleep paralysis, in which we gain some consciousness while waking up from the REM sleep stage, but there is some overlap between the two. To put it in simple terms, we are neither completely awake nor completely asleep, but a bit of both as the same time.

False awakening or sleep paralysis?

False awakenings are sometimes confused with sleep paralysis, which can occur either when waking up or falling asleep. During an episode of sleep paralysis, your body is paralyzed, but your brain is conscious and aware of your surroundings.

What some people experience is a false awakening in which they dream of waking up and being unable to move. This can also be frightening, both in the dream and when you wake up and remember what just happened.

The key difference is that physical paralysis does actually occur during sleep paralysis to protect you from injury if you act out your dreams in bed.

On the other hand, the paralysis during a false awakening takes place purely within the dream. You will usually then wake up in your bed and be able to move normally.

Treatment

If your false awakening episodes have gotten you worried, the good news is that they aren’t thought to be an indicator of mental illness. In fact, they are quite common and it’s thought that many people experience them during their lives. So in that respect, they don’t usually require treatment.

If they are frequent, distressing, or affecting your quality of sleep or daily life, it’s a good idea to speak to your primary care doctor about it. They might consider the following options:

  • Practical advice to help you sleep better.
  • Investigating if there is an underlying sleep disorder.
  • Dream rehearsal therapy.
  • Anxiety or stress management.
  • Medication – in certain circumstances.

It could be that the best option is not to worry and try to accept it as a normal part of dreaming. Alternatively, there are two interesting self-help options that might help: trying to stop them from happening and using them as a tool for lucid dreaming.

Self-help for false awakenings

It’s one thing to wake up properly after a false awakening dream, and then lie in bed thinking about how strange it was. It’s an altogether different experience to become aware of it whilst the dream is still happening.

How do you gain that awareness though? If you realize that you’re still asleep and dreaming, do you then try to wake yourself up, or just ride it out and see what happens?

The answer to the second question is a personal choice, but it will also be dictated by whatever level of awareness you manage to achieve.

Let’s take a look at some techniques to consider for the next time it happens.

1. How to wake up during a false awakening

If you have a false awakening, a moment of awareness within the dream just might not happen. It’s often the case that we are simply a witness to our dreams, not an active participant.

Even if you do realize you’re dreaming, it doesn’t always follow that you can simply decide to wake up.

If you do become aware that you’re still dreaming, here are some actions which might help you wake up for real:

  • Tell yourself that you want to wake up now – you might as well start with a direct and simple approach!
  • Try to focus your mind on moving a finger or toe. When you gain control of that, move to an arm or leg if you still haven’t woken up.
  • Try blinking rapidly.
  • Focus your gaze on one thing in the dream.
  • If there’s a mirror, try to look at yourself.
  • Try and do a complex action, like running, jumping or dancing.

All of those techniques require a certain level of awareness though. You’ll either have it or you won’t in any given dream. If you’re having regular false awakenings, it might help if you remind yourself of these possible actions just before you go to sleep to cement them in your mind.

Let’s now look at what you can do if you’re not in such a rush to wake up and like the idea of exploring your dreams a little further.

2. Turn a false awakening into a lucid dream

artistic image of a woman dreaming

If you’re the adventurous type, the idea of lucid dreaming may be an exciting and fun one.

False awakenings are often reported by those with a strong interest in lucid dreaming (for example, World of Lucid Dreaming) as a potential bridge.

In some ways, it’s a fairly straightforward concept. First, check that you’re dreaming and therefore become aware that you’re still inside the dream. Then get moving and explore to your heart’s content.

How exactly do you start checking that you’re dreaming? The theory goes that you need to plant the idea in your head that you’re going to start doing ‘reality checking’ in your dreams. Then cross your fingers that it happens.

Reality checking

Here are some techniques to do what’s known as a ‘reality check’, and find out which side of the dreamworld your feet really are:

  • Try and remember facts or figures. It can be difficult to recall factual information, such as your address, phone number, or someone’s date of birth. If you find it difficult, it’s a sign you may be dreaming.
  • Try leaving the room in your dream. The next room or hall might change into something which shouldn’t be there.
  • Try to read any writing in the dream. Reading can be difficult in dreams, so words or numbers might blur or morph.
  • If in doubt, you probably are asleep. Despite the fact that your brain can create incredibly vivid scenes, if you’re not sure if you’re dreaming, it’s more likely that you are than aren’t.
  • If you’re doing a complex task in your dream, perform a reality check. If you’re in the bathroom, see if you look normal or not. If you’re eating breakfast, check if the food tastes as it usually does. In bed, check if the bedding has the right texture or feel.

The theory goes that any of these reality checking behaviors can trigger awareness that you’re still asleep. If that doesn’t wake you up, then you’re free to explore a whole imaginary world of possibilities.

If you’ve never experienced the kind of awareness that doing these things would require, don’t worry about it. Perhaps reading this article and remembering the concepts might help trigger that awareness in the future.

Please keep in mind though that the various suggested methods to induce lucid dreaming still don’t have strong scientific backing.

For example, a review of the evidence for lucid dreaming techniques, conducted by researchers at Heidelberg University in 2012, found that the techniques don’t work on demand. They concluded that:

None of the induction techniques were verified to induce lucid dreams reliably and consistently, although some of them look promising.

However, lucid dreaming does happen, so there is hope. A German study in 2011 found that 51% of the 919 participants had experienced a lucid dream at least once in their life.

New research into reality checking and false awakenings / lucid dreaming

In 2019, researchers analyzed an older web survey about false awakenings and lucid dreams. They found that 62% of the 90 people who have regular lucid dreams also had false awakenings, transitioning from one to the other.

They also found that people who are regular reality checkers tended to have more false awakenings (76% of respondents who reality check).

Moreover, people who check their state with such reality checks were more likely to transition into lucid dreaming from a false awakening.

This research lends some initial support to the technique of reality checking as a way to both cope with false awakenings, and theoretically turn it to your advantage in the form of the opportunity to enjoy some dream control.

As the researchers say:

This appears to be the first empirical datum in support of the frequently self-reported ability of lucid dreamers to turn “actively” their FAs into lucid dreams. 

Buzzi et al.

3. Can you prevent false awakenings?

The idea of lucid dreaming understandably won’t appeal to everyone. If you have bad dreams, stopping them in the first place might seem like a more beneficial option.

In this case, there are some techniques that might help prevent them. At the very least, perhaps you might be able to stop them from happening more than once in a night.

Please note that these ideas aren’t guaranteed to stop your false awakenings specifically. In many ways, they are suggestions that are thought to help with sleep problems in general.

  • Avoid caffeine and other stimulants, especially in the evening.
  • Avoid alcohol in the evening.
  • Try to calm your mind before going to sleep. If you struggle with anxiety or stress at night, you might find it helpful to do some relaxation exercises in bed.
  • Do regular exercise. It might also help to go for a short walk in the evening before bed.
  • If you have a false awakening, get out of bed for 10 to 15 minutes before going back to sleep.
  • Stick to a regular sleep pattern, and try to avoid becoming sleep deprived.

Your thoughts

Have you experienced a false awakening or a series of nested dreams? What happened and what did it feel like?

Feel free to share your story and views in the comments below. I’m sure other readers will also find your experience useful and interesting.

931 Comments

  1. Hi. I have false awakening dreams which always turn out to be nested dreams. To me this is very distressful because the awakening seems so real but for the tiny changes in detail, for instance, i always dream that i wake up in my home but when i look out of the window there are family busy with building extensions or something. Other times i can hear a radio in another room and then i would bend to look underneath in fear that someone else is inside the house…in my false reality dream state i am very aware that i’m dreaming and fight to wake up by trying to make sounds or wriggle…i get very frustrated and angry too that i can’t wake up for real and i even talk to myself about my situation for eg i would say “oh no not again” ect . Even though i know im in my own house i notice a window that’s not supposed to be there od an odd piece of furniture ect. Now the thing is that i only get these dreams in the morning after i have woken normally and decide to go back to sleep. I have been avoiding going back to sleep in the morning for fear of these dreams but when i do i end up having these dreams. The dream in itself is not scary or anything like it, in fact i would not have minded exploring inside my dream to see where it leads but my fear is not being able to wake and when i finally do i might be greeted with an intruder inside the house.in reality…that is my fear all the time. Here is what i think has given birth to my false awakening (nested) dreams. On top of losing my mom, dad and young niece in recent years, i have experienced break-ins at home and one day i after sorting out my kids for school i went back to bed only to wake up finding a guy standing by my bed with a long knife in his hand…anyway i’m not gonna go there BUT not long after, i started having these dreams…Sometimes i’m so tired i just want to sleep in a bit but i’m too scared of both these dreams and what may happen in reality while i sleep……

    • God! This is the story of my life!! The struggle to wake up, the part where you are aware of the dream but you can’t explore more cos you’re scared you might never wake up again… So distressful!!

  2. False awakening only happens to me when I sleep in on the weekends. It’ll happen once every 3 months or so.
    It’ll feel like i have woken up, and everything around me is exactly the same….same room, same bed, same tv placement and same sleeping position.
    Every time i experience a false awakening, my eyes open but i cannot move my body. It feels like im stuck and there’s this gravity force pushing down on me every time I force myself to get up. The feeling of consciousness but no control over the body freaks me out.
    Sometimes I’ll dream that while I’m stuck in bed, ill hear my partner or sister are about to come into my room, and i try to use them to wake me up, ill try call out for them but I cant and they never come in.
    What always guarantees to wake me up of the dreadful feeling of being stuck is…. stop myself from breathing in my dream because I know it’ll shock me and wake me up in real life….100% of the times i stopped my breathing, i wake up completely to real life.
    Its so scary and I need to learn other techniques to be in control of my dream and learn how to wake myself up differently.

    • This is exactly what happens to me! I’m trying to do research to figure out what’s causing it or why it happens. Please reply to this if you find some more information. Once I’m aware i’m dreaming, I’ve counted up to 12 nested dreams before…. Its entirely frustrating and I wake up in tears when I finally do wake up for real. I’ve even had experience where I feel an unknown person is pulling on my hand trying to help we get up and I can’t see them or see my hand, but I can feel them and hear them.

  3. I am a very experienced dreamer, I can easily turn most dreams lucid and have almost complete control, and I rarely have nightmares, and when I do I usually find them mildly amusing, like watching a horror film. I was 13 years old and I lived in a brick house built in the early 1900’s. My room was in the basement. I woke up one morning and I was doing my normal routine. I was laying in my bed and grabbing my blankets in my hand and looking around just grounding myself and making sure I was awake. Sure enough I was awake. I rolled on my side and faced toward my closet door and as I was about to swing my legs off the bed a man burst through my closet door.
    This man was about 3 ft tall, very dark black skin and his head looked like it was recently shaved to the skin. He was wearing what I thought was a very expensive white suit and he had a lavender handkerchief in his right breast pocket. He immediately began rapping extremely complex rhymes and he also was doing the typical hand movements, but they weren’t typical, it was almost like karate or kung-fu arm movements. His voice was very high pitched, like the “high talker” on that Seinfeld episode.
    His rapping was disturbing, he was explaining to me in detail how he was going to kill me, explained in detail the pain he was going to put me through and where he was going to get rid of my body when he’s done.
    My bedroom door was between myself and this man. I sprung out of bed and raced for the door. He immediately stopped rapping and tried to block me from the door, but I got there first, I ran through the basement, up the stairs, through the laundry room, and into the kitchen. Then my Mom walked into the kitchen.
    I woke up my heart was racing. I have never had a dream like that. I did my routine again and I was satisfied that I was really awake. I rolled to my side and it all happened again, exactly the same as before. It happened three more times.
    Finally I wake up, I skip my waking grounding ritual and sat up in my bed and stared at the closet door, waiting. The closet door slowly opened and the man came out, slowly this time and calmly walked toward me until we were face to face looking each other in the eyes. His eyes were completely black. He then said “If you don’t leave, I will kill you in front of your family.” His voice was normal now, deep and very hostile. I pushed him as hard as I could and knocked him on the ground and I ran back to the kitchen.
    I woke up. I jump out of bed and run back to the kitchen as my Mom was walking in just like all the previous times. I run to her and grabbed her shoulders and screamed at her “am I awake!?” She said yes and was wondering what was going on in my head.
    That nightmare was one of the very few that scared me to death the way it did. That was over 15 years ago and to this day I have never experienced a dream like that again. Sometimes I still question my own sanity, I cannot even explain the feeling of vulnerability and powerlessness that I felt through that dream, and I hope that I never will again.

  4. Just woke up from a false waking dream at least 5-6 deep. In each dream I was in my bed and couldn’t move. In the last nest, Penn & Teller came in from a different room and were helping me out of bed.

    Strangely, when I really woke, was on my back, I had severe sharp pain in the center of my back and chest. So excrutiating I took an oxycodone I had left to a prior surgery and chewed it up followed by swallowing 2 gabapintin and a robaxin. A 10 on a pain scale.

    It’s been about 20 min and the pain is finally easing off.

    I’ve had nested dreams before and dreams that pick up where they left off since I was a kid, I’m 47.

  5. i’m 16 and i’m sleeping in my room (which i share w my twin) i just had one of these false awakenings and i’ve never been more scared in my life. i had THOUGHT what happened was that i couldn’t sleep so i got up and i was talking to my sister. i was like “why do i feel so high right now? like i’m tripping” and she’s like “you feel like that too?” and i’m like “yeah did someone put something in our drinks?” and she’s like “no dude i don’t think so” so i was scared and i went in my parents room and my mom wasn’t in there for some reason but my dad was. and he was sleeping. so i facetime my mom and she answers. wherever she is, it’s daytime. where i am, it’s 2:30am. so i’m explaining to her like “mom i feel super high right now i’m tripping hella” and she’s like “oh that’s completely normal honey! you hit your head!” and i’m like “i hit my head? when?” and she’s like “october 30th!” (it’s may 19 rn) and so all of a sudden my dad says quietly “hang up the phone” and i’m like “okay….” and i go over by him and it was my dad like i can see him with his eyes shut laying in bed. i tough him and i’m like “dad please help i’m so scared right now im tripping” and i tried to smack myself and get out of it but i couldn’t. all of a sudden the light flicks on and it was my friend… like a young girl.. and i’m like “alexis?!” what are you doing here?” and she sits up all pissed and is like “yeah. i saw your snapchat convos about me” and i’m like “what? what do u mean?” and she started to like wrestle me and i’m like “no dude please don’t wrestle me rn” and all of a sudden i JOLTED out of my sleep and gasped for air. (so now i’m actually awake… and very confused… and scared) and my sister is like “what?” and i said “what? were we talking?” and she’s like “yeah….” and i said “wtf what do u mean?” and she’s like “dude i was dreaming but i was tripping hella hard. i know we were both talking in our sleep tho to each other. like having a full on conversation” and i’m like “bruh i’m scared. are you good?” and she’s like “i’m good are you actually awake?” and i’m like “yeah but i’m not going to bed” sooooo yeah. it’s currently 3:08am and i don’t plan on shutting my eyes til the sun comes up

  6. I experienced sleep paralysis just once Shure I was awake but it was still dark I couldn’t move any part of my body,this only lasted for about 2 or 3 minutes then closed my eyes again and was sound asleep again. I have also on two different occasions thaught I was awake and seen very clearly someone standing in my bedroom one man had a small dog with him and the dog jumped up on the bed on both occasions the person didn’t speak but I was absolutely terrified and shouted out to go away leave me alone clear off this seems to last for just a couple of minutes and I closed my eyes and I’m asleep again. The experience is so very very clear and real to me im still not Shure if I was really seeing people in my bedroom or was I awake in a dream .

  7. I have false awakening that combine with horrible lucid nightmares that are superimposed on my bedroom. In the nightmare I am awake, have turned the light on, and often gotten just out of the bed all the while something horrible is in the room or in the hall trying to attack me. I see the nightmare things and the actual bedroom at the same time. Often think I have woken up for real multiple times before I can finally really wake up. Once I wake up I am terrified to go back to sleep as I often will drop right back into a lucid nightmare. I have these usually at least one or two times a month and sometimes more frequently. I have had this since I was a child but they are worse into adult hood. Middle aged now and they still happen. I hate them and always hope eventually I won’t have them anymore but they always come back.

  8. I’ve had what seemed to be hundreds of times of lucid dreaming….even nested dreaming. In lucid dreaming….I would be alert…see everything around me as I normally would. But I couldn’t use my body….couldn’t lift myself, I’d try to jolt myself awake with extreme force which only made it worse. I’ve also noticed that when each dream would be false awakened from, I wasn’t really all that tired. I would pick up the remote to start the tv….sometimes it would go on, sometimes it wouldn’t. I knew I was dreaming because everytime I picked up the remote, I would find myself back in the same position along with the remote in its original position….like a magic trick….there are occasions where I’d get up to use the computer…. notice that things weren’t working properly, and wham…back in bed. I knew I was dreaming…everything was as it was in perfect detail…. the only problem was, I could not move. Like I said earlier, I’d wake up each time, I’d wake up feeling refreshed but couldn’t move. Then I would try my hardest to wake myself up…only to be let down every time. Then I would imagine myself jolting up….and focus n focus and focus and about after 4 or 5 times…I would sprint up….not being able to breathe… and had the biggest headache and was exhausted… still tired. Maybe from experiencing mental distress n array from trying to wake up so hard.

    Then again all my dreams are insanity.

  9. You know you are sleeping. I try to awake. I sort of can see the room because I almost always like to sleep with a little light on. In my dream I might be doing something physical like for an example, just trying to get out of bed. But I cant. I think it happens when I am trying to do the right things in my life but I cant or I am trying to do the wrong things but I cant. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  10. I’m 21 and I have nested dreams, usally around 2-4 each time I dream. I have a bit of stress in my life and drink coffee everyday to stay awake. I will ‘wake up’ to my phone alarm and it’s bright outside, turn on the phone and the display will either tell me it’s 10:38 or sometime after 3 pm. I then go about my morning routine or skip it (if the clock showed that it was in the afternoon). Sometimes in this fake day I pass someone something important, answer a message that I’ve been intending to reply but didn’t know how to before, etc. It’s affecting my memory to the point that my friends would ask me for something and I would reply “I thought I did give this back to you a while ago (in the dream)” or I’ve finished creating something in a dream and I spend hours trying to find that piece of work because I didn’t remember that I didn’t actually make it.

  11. I just experienced nested dreams, like 5-6 false awakenings in row. Very stressful..you think like you are stuck and wont be able to wake up

  12. I was dreaming that somebody was chasing me. It was dark, I couldn’t see who or what it was. Then I suddenly woke up. I was surprised to see my friends around me. We were on a vacation, I think? We were inside a cabin. I turned to one of my friends and asked, “Is this a dream?” Then he looked at me weirdly and shook his head. “Of course not. This is real.” So I nodded and continues to look around. Then I don’t really remember what happened after that, I just remember waking up again. This time, I’m in my room. It was still dark, and I didn’t question it because I am a very light sleeper and I usually wake up in the middle of the night, normally around 2am to 4am. So normally, I feel the need to go to the bathroom. But then I noticed that my sight’s blurry. So I panicked a little and thought that it was my lupus acting up. So as I got to the bathroom, I noticed a white blur walking in front of me very slowly. It was just walking there, left to right, then right to left. I thought it was my mom, so I tried calling her. It did not respond and thankfully did not get closer to me. So I got to the phone, called my father but he too did not answer. Then I started panicking and I don’t know why but it was dark and I was alone and I didn’t know what to do. Then it got harder to breathe, like simeone was sitting on your chest and pushing sown on you. Then it was then I realized I was dreaming so I tried to wake up. And thankfully I did. That was the very first time that happened to me and I did not sleep a wink that night. I woke up around 2:30am and that got me scared to even move because it was like the dream all over again. So I searched about it and here I am

  13. My family and girlfriend throws a pool party for me. It’s extravagant and outlandish, so I assume half-consciously that this is probably a dream. I wake up to my girlfriend beside me, who asks “did you like your party?” I said “that was real?”. Confused, she said “yeah”. I walk outside and there’s a party half cleaned up. I said “I thought I was dreaming!” She shook her head, “noo…??”. I freaked out and said “I don’t wanna live this life…” I tried to open and close my eyes…that’s when I woke up. Not the first time this has happened either.

  14. I was very anxious and stressed before i took my nap in the afternoon.

    “I woke up , looked outside my window and it was already dark. I get up out of bed feeling really upset because i slept the whole day and didn’t get any work done. So i walked to my desk where i left some notes and drawings i did that morning but i couldn’t read the text, it was really blurry so i try to look for my phone to find a flashlight and message a friend but my phone screen was also blurry and the lights were blinking. So i kept on walking around my house but none of the lights are working either, i kept walking more and started to think ” i guess it is already dark, i am going to keep sleeping” and when i returned to my bed, my bed mattress was flipped upside down. I started feeling scared because i thought there was someone in my house. I kept on wondering if this was real or if it was a dream” so from the fear i was feeling , i made a fist with my hands and said “If this is a dream, you have to get out of here NOW!, wake up! ” and nothing happened. Then i started hearing footsteps and i did again and i finally woke up in my bed.”
    The strange thing is that this happened in between the time of an hour nap , but it felts like years. Being stuck in a dream is real and controlling it can be a real challenge……

  15. I keep having these and thinking they’re sleep paralysis so i’m very glad. It’s just me sinking into bed when I fall asleep or trying to wake up but not being able to move. It’s very interesting because I’ve struggled so much to get my body moving when I realize that none of it was real.

  16. I am asleep i want to wake up I am on the couch ans see the kitchen window. I get up and can only open one eye. I panick I stumble fall or crawl. Then Something out of the realm of possibility happens ( summer in winter, mom in kitchen… ) I realize I am still sleeping and open eyes. Am still on the couch. This is repeated at least 20 times. I always am blind in one eye – left one. I make it to different places in the house – always stumbling or crawling, always blind in one eye. Sometimes even outside. Then the presence of something or someone makes me realize I am asleep. I fight it and fight it then I wake up in a stupor. So what is this?

  17. This happened to me before I had one dream that I woke up seven times before I actually woke up And in some theres a dark figure And tries to get behind me to do something to me …. That was 2 years ago but last nights was the most vivid I realized I was dreaming but I was trapped in that dream it lasted so long …..!! I started asking people in that dream if I was dead .. Somehow I woke up but was in another dream I was trapped in black branches And couldnt escape it lasted awhile too! I started dreaming WAke UP !!!!! And tried concéntrate on waking up I finally did this was the 2nd scariest dream I ever had the last one was like 15 years ago.

  18. I find I only have nesting dreams when i take a nap and have something covering my eyes (usually a pillow yo block out the light). When I “wake” all I want is to take that pillow off. It sounds stupid but having that pillow there and me not able to move it off is terrifying in everyway. This helped me figure some stuff out about it and I thank you

  19. I am also suffering from this problem and i thought before paranormal activities is happening to me but after reading this article i am feeling better and i am able to convert it into lucid dreaming… Which is really cool i am able to dream whatever i want?

  20. I’ve had multiple false awakenings when I was younger. the most was 3 times in a row and it truly made scared out of my mind trying to understand what is real and what isn’t anymore.

  21. I have these about once a month. I always know I’m dreaming but then I wake up in my bed but I know I’m still dreaming so I scream at myself….”wake up” so I do laying in bed, buy I’m lying in bed still in a dream. Sometimes this happens 10+ times before I actually wake up. I sometimes walk around a bit before I scream at myself, cause I don’t know if I actually woke up yet. The only time it really scared me was when I fell asleep on the couch and I could here my kids and I knew I had to wake up but I kept waking up in the same sleeping position but was still in a dream. This certain false Awakening happened 20+ times. I think it took so many because I was worried about my kids and knew I needed to wake up. Crazy Everytime it happens but that one had me on edge for days. I sometimes have sleep paralysis but we’ll leave that for another day. Thanks for listening.

    • Omg!!! Exactly what happend to you happend to me!!! My baby was sleeping with me and I was so desperate to wake up because of him and I couldnt wake up!! I even hit my head on the floor in the dream and also thought thay maybe I was dead???.

    • Hey, I’ve had exactly the same dream. I’m doing daily stuff with superhuman abilities like I can fly and jump around; I’m almost fluidic. But I keep screaming at myself to wake up and get a vibratory sensation in my head, in the dream (don’t know if that’s for real). After multiple attempts, I eventually wake up to find it was only 20-30 minutes since I fell asleep, and it felt like it was way longer! It scares the heck out of me. Sometimes I wonder if I got possessed.

      • Sadly same thing happening to me
        Whenever i tells my friends they says you are joking and at that time i thought if i had sword at that time i cut them all?

  22. Such an interesting read, thank you! When I dream about my house, it is never the one I live in now, but when I have these dreams, it’s always my house, and it’s always scary. I can usually understand my dreams, but these ones freak me out. One time I woke up three times within a dream and got scared later while shopping, because I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming again or not (I was not).

  23. Ack! I’ve been having these every time I wake up at some point during the night. Like if I happen to consciously wake up at 3-4 and do a task for a bit (usually work as I’m an artist) then I’ll go back to bed. It’s always a recipe for these for me. Mostly I just find them annoying. My usual tell is grabbing my phone and if I can actually read the screen I’m usually awake. Sometimes it fools me tho and I will end up halfway across the house before something happens to set me off. A lot of times during these I will hear someone walking in my room, which used to scare me but anymore it’s just another way of knowing I’m really not awake.

  24. i o lot of research about my dream which im awake but still dreaming.. i’ve been experiencing this thrice in different day.. the scenario of my dream was repeating where i am half awake of my dream and i force myself to fully awake in real.. its too hard too explain what im.trying to say.. i hope you understand..

  25. This happens to me all the time. I have many nested dreams where I think I’ve woken up only to realize that I’m actually still dreaming. When I become aware that I am dreaming but can’t get out of it I try to yell help in my dream because I know if I can yell then my husband will shake me until I actually can get out of the dream.
    The nested dreams drive me crazy!
    I also have nightmares and become aware that it is a nightmare and then try yelling help again so that my husband will wake me up out of it. Thank you for the info.

    • I learned to control my dreams when I was very young (5 or 6 yrs old). My nights were ruled by nightmares and my mom, who was very likely exhausted from me waking her up to tell her about them, suggested I take control of my dreams. All I had to do was realize I was in charge and could make anything happen. From punching the kidnappers literally to the moon, to flying (low flying bc I could never overcome my fear of heights), I had it down. In my adult life, after experiencing more loss and trauma than a day of Lifetime movies, my dreams became to terrifying and disturbing to gain control over. So my concern now is waking up from these dreams, which is not always easy. I have two methods that work for me. I visualize what is REALLY around me, where I am Sleeping (my bed? the couch? hotel room?) what I am wearing ( which pjs or did I fall asleep dressed? If so, which clothes) and is my husband beside me or one of my children… once I can recall my real atmosphere I feel a suction-like sensation at the back of head and I’m able to wake up, as if I’d been placed in a sling shot and thrown back to reality. I don’t expect anyone to be familiar with the sensation, but it’s crazy so I wanted to share it. I can actually use it as a way to escape the chaos of my nightmare, while I calm down when I am unable to recall my REAL surroundings correctly, because I will still experience the sling shot sensation.. its not easy to explain but it’s pretty neat. My other wake-up method is calling out to my husband, which is not easy to do. It has to be able to wake him up, so once I “find” my voice, I will repeat ” Tim wake me up” over and over until I am able to speak out loud enough for him to wake me. Fortunately for me, and not so for him, his sleep Cycle has adjusted to accomodate this since my nightmares have increased to almost every night.
      I also experience sleep paralysis along with sleep halucinations and because of the intensity of my nightmares and hallucinations I avoid sleeping if possible. I only need 3 to 4 hrs of Sleep to feel rested and at my best, so it’s not difficult to just not go to sleep. It isn’t unusual for me to get through 2 nights without sleeping at all. I have never watched horror movies or anything with unprovoked violence, so my dreams do not come from those sources. They are vivid and terrifying and truly sick and twisted on a level that I cannot express. It terrifies me that these things are originating in my mind. I am a mom to 6 children, so my life is Disney and I LOVE children, and animals, and I sincerely pray for those who do or speak against my loved ones. I don’t have enemies, and I truly care about everyone. without a psychiatrist and hypno therapy, is there a way to find out the source of these disturbances, and to possibly find a relief?
      I don’t want to use any drugs or sleep aids, bC I fear I will lose the control I do have over my dreams.

  26. I have always been a vivid, lucid and false awakened dreamer . Not only that, but I have predicted Countless pregnancies .. sounds strange.. I know , I’ve gotten the nick name “the baby guru”. Most times Ive shared this information Before the individual even knew they were expecting.

    With the false awakenings, I used to think that I was dreaming about the future and then watching it unfold. Although him not certain that’s not what’s happening , false awakening sounds now that I read of them seems like what I deal with ..way too often.

    In the past few months these feelings of having woken up but continue to dream are occupanied by what I can only explain as a feeling of gravity . It makes me feel very comfortable and is if i am being pulled down or in different directions .. the dream becomes can sometimes then turn lucid bc I start asking myself if I am awake or not and when I do question it , I get this intense physica, alomst painful feeling . It can be so unpleasant that I then feel trapped .. it’s like two states of consciousness pulling me in different directions .. last night I had what you called “nesting false awakenings” which is typically, but the gravity pull was so strong that for about 6 hours after I truly woke up , I felt my perception was distorted.. disconnected .. it all still felt very dream like.. eventually this feeling disipates and without recognizing the very moment , things go back to a more normal state.
    Until I sleep again..

  27. I often dream like this. Personally I don’t like it. It seems that dream 1 is always something frightening. Then in dream 2, im trying to wake my spouse so he will wake me but I can’t open my mouth, I can’t move. Finally a 3rd type of dream in able to wake up but I somehow know in dreaming at this point.
    It’s just very scary to me.

  28. I dont know if many people get this or its just me , I’ve looked up for research and can’t find anything … So here we go some nights doesn’t happen all the time but has been recently in last 3 days ! If I fall asleep early cause my body needed it my brain would fall asleep around about 10pm then all of a sudden its like I didn’t sleep or did I . I would wake up well let’s say my brain would wake up for no reason and I think to myself did I even fall asleep or have I been awake all along , sounds freaky buts its scary and when it happens I panic and pinch myself also look at time if it time moves its real I think… I then also will match the time on my phone to other times on clocks /TV etc so i believe if time moves forward I’m awake if time don’t move its not reality.. Now while I’m panicking I also imaging waking up my partner who sleep next to me before I wake him up . but other times if I fall asleep before him it happens so when my brain wakes up when falling asleep at 10pm it wakes up at 1030 so I didn’t even sleep long , now as I was saying I would wake up and my partner still up I would ask him “am I sleep or awake” ? His respond when I havent been asleep yet so your defiantly awake. Then I ask did I fall asleep as don’t remember falling asleep he would say yes you were asleep…confusing right ?! So what is happening and why …. I keep myself awake possible later much as I can as I don’t like it . sometimes I don’t let myself fall asleep till 3am in morning but my brain wants shut down early say about 130 or 200am but it still happens half an hour later …to me it feels like ive slept for ages and then I look at clock and that’s how I know I didn’t sleep long . I’ve tried not looking at time every time but I panic more if I don’t. As I do it to check if I’m in reality or dreaming… Then sometimes I fallen asleep woke up for no reason getting into a panic attack state thinking I’ve slept all night and thinking it’s the morning when i only drifted off for few mins . yet again i look at the time cause i thought was the morning .Its hard to explain to someone who doesn’t have or experience it.

    • I had this happen when I was younger I wanna say it was waking up during a certain stage of sleep(I can’t remember how I know that)

  29. I had a false awakening and a sleep paralysis in a same dream this morning. First I woke up, start doing my regular things, then I realized I can’t leave my bedroom because I am still in my bed. First l panicked and tried to wake myself up again. I thought I did. I was pretty sure this time I was awake. Then I saw this guy whom I have never seen in my life sitting on a chair behind a table and talking to me. I was answering him and having a conversation then I questioned myself what in the world this guy doing in my apartment? I managed to open my eyes half way and I saw part of my hand was in my vision and the guy was still there as well, but there is no way I could move anywhere. Then I freaked out and started screaming to myself to wake up. When it didn’t work, I calm myself and start focusing on my finger in front of my eye. And Through my mind I was trying to find the nerves which makes my finger move. It took me couple seconds but I manage to wake up. This is not the first time I am having this experience but i never liked them nor i am getting used to them.

    • I had a similar thing happen where I think I’m awake started my regular routine then it becomes very hard to move and I can’t leave the room so now I know I’m sleeping I may go through it a few times before I finally able to wake myself up I find it a little scary it’s happened to me many time so I’m very aware that is a dream but I can’t wake myself

  30. I have had these for 3 nights now… i honestly thought i was awake (have had insomnia before), but my sleep tracker says i was in rem sleep. Kinda explains why i haven’t been able to nap though.

    • I woke up and saw someone at the end of my bed then i woke up again. I was so frightened buy it i couldn’t stop shaking and crying. My husband was away at the time so i knew no one should be in our house. Absolutely terrified.

  31. So far, this is like my third or fourth time having these dreams and for some reason I just can’t stop it. It happens Everytime I nod off.

  32. Well from reading this article I think I might have sleep paralysis.
    I’m 19, African American, male.
    This all started about 2 1/2 weeks ago. It happens every time I’m about to wake up. Okay so this is what happens to me.
    As this episode is happening I’m fully aware that I’m sleeping. I know that because I just know. So I’m lying in bed dreaming away then as I’m about to wake up. I’m still in whatever position I fell asleep in. But the scary part to that is that no matter how hard I try to move, it feels like my body is glued to the bed. So I can’t move nor talk in that matter the last time this happened to me was about 45 minutes ago. I think I was humming or trying to hmm in my sleep to get someone to wake me up. It was that terrifying.

    • Same exact thing happens to me sometimes I’ll even tell myself in my dream to lift my head up or I’ll come to discover more obstacles of why I can’t get up inside my dream I’ll prop my body against the wall then I’ll wake up for real it’s scary

    • I have experienced the same thing and it’s been going on for a few years now. When I have an episode I’ve gotten to the point where I tell myself to roll outta bed. The fall will wake me up but I wake up flailing my arms around as though I’m actually falling outta bed. I’ve only experience sleep paralysis when I take a nap. Maybe it’s because in the the back of mind I know I have to get up very shortly which why I have those sleep expierences. It’s as though my mind can’t shutdown but my body has. Anyways, if it happens again try telling yourself to roll outta bed.

  33. This just happened and it was very distressing, I false awakened about 6 times in a row. Each time I would reach for my tv remote (which was beside me on my bedside table) or my phone ( which was under the pillow next to me) as it actually was in reality. I reach for the remote to turn the tv on because when I have nightmares I put on cartoons. So I would reach for the remote the tv wouldn’t turn on, reach for my phone and I cannot type. I was well aware I was dreaming and the cycle would start again sometimes I knew I was still stuck, other times I thought okay I am finally awake. It happened so many times it my dream state my body was trembling like a seizure. When I finally did wake up I was still in the position I was when I feel asleep except my entire body was drenched in sweat from panic. This was one of the scariest times it’s ever happened to me. Being stuck in that state reminded me of the insidious movies. My teeth hurt I just have been so stressed I was clenching my jaw.

  34. I too have just started having these dreams. It started about a week ago, I wake up and I find it really hard to move, I feel heavy and I see my closet is open and I grab my iphone to put the flash light on it and I see a bunch of bookbags on strings dangling in the light. Then i wake up again and check the closet with my flash light and I see a ghostly girl walking up to me slowly and her image is flashing on and off like a strobe light then I wake up in real life. And then this morning it happened again I wake up and the blankets are dangling over the bottom of the bedso I reach to pull the blankets up over me and something is tugging the blankets back and the figure stands up inside the blanket like a halloween ghost costume with a white sheet and holes in em for eyes then I wake up again I grab my blankets and then a dog jumps out of nowhere attacks me in my room and bed I finally wake up in real life very very scary like stuff you see in a movie

  35. Constantly I wake up from a dream into another dream, this happens what feels like 100 times a morning. It is causing me to be unmotivated to do anything during the day and is becoming more than just a nuisance.

  36. I’ve had multiple times that I’ve gone through this. Most of the time it takes me 15 try’s to actually get up. It’s kind of terrifying for me. I am actually conscious of the fact that I need to get up and I try everything in my dream to wake up. Once I tried to squeeze my pillow hard so I can wake up but it failed. I feel trapped whenever this happens

    • I had similar experiences several times in sleep. Even this morning and that’s why I started reading this?. I repeatedly tried to put off my blanket but I couldn’t and all of a sudden I gained control and did it

  37. Been researching this Lately I was so confused at what was happening to me. It was quite scary. Lucid dreams happen to me quite often but I started having dreams where I couldn’t tell if I was conscious or unconscious. Waking up seeing my husband walking towards the bed and laying his hand on my foot knowing good and well he couldn’t possibly be there because he works night shift and once I woke up to a massive spider sliding down a web towards my face and I began swatting at it. It was all so scary because I knew it wasn’t real but it felt like real life. Then I saw this about false awakenings which made since. I wake up in the dream then get scared and eventually wake up in real life and I’m terrified the rest of the night because my mind can’t wrap around what just happened. I literally saw a man and felt his hand on my foot and it was all so real. Why are they always scary? I wish I had the dreams where I wake up and have a normal morning like some of these other comments. Am I the only one having terrifying ones? I don’t feel paralyzed at all during them I always wake up from being scared.

    • This is similar to what I am experiencing. I used to have epilepsy many years ago and have not suffered with it for many years. It does not bother me and i havent thought anout it as a problem at all. I keep having false awakenings. I dream i am asleep and wake up then have a seizure. I try to call for help but it doesnt worm until i finish seizing then i wake my fiance and he comforts me and tells me im awake and its om and i didnt seize but that turns out to be a dream too. I can have a series of these false awakenings up to 12 or so times. Sometimes im begging my self or my fiance to wake up but it doesnt work even thpugh im sure i can hear my voice call his name a few minutes latef i realise that isnt the case and i have to try harder and end up exhausting myself waking up. Once i am awake i find it hard to KNOW for sure unless i have a pain i have been suffering with that day which is still there when waking. Have you manged to solve this at all? I would love some help.

  38. I’ve had false awakenings all though my life. I would wake up, get out of bed go to bathroom/ kitchen – something strange would happen and I would release I’m back in bed and can’t move and I’m still sleeping.

    I would after a few minutes be able to move stand up and leave my room only to release I’m still sleeping. This sometimes can happen dozens of times and is exhausting.

    I’ve always had sleep paralysis and false awakenings and seems to happen if I fall asleep on my back – i’m also able think pretty clearing during these events and notice my breathing normally feels obstructed.

  39. Looking for help here… I’ve been lucid dreaming for years now, ever since middle school (I’m 25 now). Over the years, I’ve learned much about my lucid dreams and what I’m able to do in them. I’ve learned how to breathe underwater, how to fly (an object to sit or lay on is usually required), and people in my lucid dreams don’t interact with me unless I pull them aside, and even then, they don’t look me in the eye. When I lucid dream, it’s always been one giant world to explore, and the dream never changes. I’ve even learned how to prevent myself from waking up when I feel it coming (it takes a lot of energy, and I can only do it about two times to stay in the lucid dream a little longer).

    So… Here’s the problem… In my lucid dream, everything started off as usual. Weird stuff happened, I realized I was in a dream, and I went about my normal exploration routine. However, this time, with a mere turn of my head, the entire dream changed. I blinked my eyes while turning to look behind me, and I was in a completely different dream. I’m still lucid, and I decide to explore around a bit. I make my way through my dream and notice people are actually staring at me. That’s never happened before. Eventually, two people grab my arms from behind and toss me into a locked room with a man-sized rat. It leaps on top of me and tries to bite me, but I’m able to manifest a blade and defend myself. While that’s happening, I’m closing my eyes to protect them, and when I open them again, I’m in another different dream. This one is brighter, and I’m alone on a rooftop. I grab a long strip of wood and fly off before any more weird stuff happens. I land in a park because I can feel myself starting to wake up. I go through my normal routine to prevent awakening, but when I succeed in staying asleep, my body collapses within my lucid dream, and I’m paralyzed for a few seconds. I’m eventually able to get up and look around the empty park. When I feel myself start to wake up again, I don’t even try to stay asleep this time. This lucid dream has been full of things that have never happened, and I didn’t want to see what was going to happen next.

  40. Here’s the thing, I thought I finally had a name to what I was experiencing until I read the comments.
    The issue with what I’m struggling with is that I was pretty sure it was sleep paralysis at first because of how it starts off, but then takes a weird turn that makes me think it is just a false awakening.
    I’m always in my room and it’s pitch dark, just like my room was when I fell asleep.
    I “wake up” and am unable to move. I’m stuck and I breathe faster and faster because I’m panicking. I try to struggle in my attempting to wiggle around, especially my head because (for some reason) in that moment, I think that if I jerk my head around hard enough, I’ll finally snap out of it.
    And it does, or probably better to say I think it does because when I finally snap out of it, I very heavily sit up and stretch out to open the lights to snap myself back to reality. The only issue is that when I get there, I can’t open the light. It’s like my hand doesn’t even exist or the light switch doesn’t, I can’t even tell.
    I then realise I haven’t snapped out of it and that was probably a dream I was having (within another dream???) so I’m back to being paralysed and shifting and struggling to move like crazy. More often than not, I end up crying out for someone to help me. It genuinely feels like I’m screaming in my head until I reach a point where I feel like my screams must have “broken the barrier” and I must be screaming in “real life” and not just in my head. That’s never true, though.
    Eventually when I really do “wake up”/snap out of it, I actually get up and open the lights. That’s how I know I’m actually out of it, but continue to feel like I don’t really exists in a way?
    This all sounds so weird and not very understandable, I know! I don’t even understand it myself which is why I started off by saying I don’t even know if it’s a state of false awakening or actual sleep paralysis. Everyone in the comment section is talking about someone else being involved in the dream, but in my case, I’m exactly where I feel asleep, I know exactly where I am, there is no one there with me, I can’t see anything because it’s so dark (and I can’t move so it’s not like I can find a mirror to look through like the article says I should- I also don’t have one in my room). I am stuck in between doing acts I’m trying to do in real life and it happens in different layers of “dreams” until it happens in “real life” so I never know when I’m dreaming or in a real situation. Even in the final phase in which I actually wake up, it must feels like I’ve gained my motor skills, it doesn’t feel like I’ve woken up from a dream. This is why I don’t know if I have sleep paralysis or false awakening (since there are obviously deceptive attempts at trying to wake up).
    It’s almost like I have a false awakening dream while I actually have sleep paralysis (even if I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing).
    I don’t even know what’s real anymore. It’s exhausting, distressing and reoccurring and I don’t know what to do.
    It’s been about an hour since my last one and I still feel like my heart is beating like crazy. I’m scared to fall back asleep, in case it happens again.

    • I have experienced what you describe. Until about a month ago I dreaded having these dreams. I am in my fifties and have been experiencing them since I was in my teens. It was very frightening when I was young. As I got older it was just weird. A few years ago a friend said She thought it would be cool to have dreams that you controlled but I never felt I could control anything in my dreams. But about a month ago, while getting stressed and anxious in my dream I decided since I knew I was dreaming I would levitate and fly around my bedroom. So I did! It was fantastic! I flew through my bedroom door. I could actually feel my hands, arms, face..entire body going through the wood. Now I am looking forward to my next “dream within a dream.” I wish I had relaxed when I would realize I was in a dream years ago. Good Luck!

    • I have almost the same dream as yours.
      I were dreaming and woke up in my bed, but I couldnt move, I tried to shout for help, and I woke up again in my bed. It happened 4 or 5 time just me screaming hoping that would wake me up, only to find myself in the same situation after “waking up”.
      And then I think I feel like my sister is in the room, if I try to shout out loud enough my real body would shout in real life and she woulf wake me up. But that didnt happen.
      Some where during those moments I felt like if I try harder I would wake up, but I’m afraid that if I tried too hard I would break something in my brain that would prevent me from waking up and I would be stuck in the dream forever.
      I thought what if I were in a coma and never wake up. That freak me out. Since I do a little bit of meditation IRL, I tried to calm myself down, thinking if it had to be it I have to be calm and find way to live on.
      When I were calmer. I tried to move myself in the dream, just imageine that I floated to the door, and I made the door open with my mind. i thought “hey it’s pretty cool”. I can see the world outside, they sun is starting to rise. I wanted to stretch my body, but I couldnt move my hand no matter how hard I tried.
      And then I woke up, this time for real. And it were 12PM in the morning. So I guess I didnt have an astral projection.

    • Wow. I experience the exact same thing. I sleep next to my partner and even feel myself physically punching him in the real world while im dreaming so he will wake me up. He tells me every time when i finally wake up that I didn’t move an inch or even scream like I thought I was. I usually have to wake uo about 10 times before its real. I truly understand how you feel. It’s so scary and exhausting and distressing. I never kmow when its going to happen. It will happen to me usually about once a week at least for a few months and then stop for a few months . I never want to sleep. I’m too scared.

      • Me too! This actually makes me feel better because I’ve never done any research on this because it only started happening to me a month ago, I didn’t know so many people have gone through this too. I assume that my false awakenings started because I have been binge eating in large amounts for a few months now, so I would not eat for two days, then eat 5000 calories in one sitting, and that I think lead time to this but I started changing my lifestyle and it was fine for one day and then started again last night, it’s scary and I don’t like it and I really want to have a good sleep soon :(

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