 Alright guys, so I'm just coming to you from my apartment in Vietnam here for a few months and by the way, if you want to check out my travel stuff, have a look at my other channel Transcend Your Limits. I do like semi-daily vlogs there where I sort of show what I'm doing and traveling and stuff. Anyway, today's video is about why I almost gave up on lucid dreaming and there's one experience which I remember vividly happening about a year ago it was now, which was so disturbing and annoying that I remember waking up finally and just thinking you know what, I don't want to do anything now, I don't want to lucid dream, I don't want to learn any more about this stuff, I just want to drop it all, forget about it and then get on with my life and completely ignore lucid dreaming forever. And these are quite strong words considering I'm essentially a lucid dreaming teacher or at least I teach people how to lucid dream through my website and stuff like that. So this was a pretty intense experience. Now what actually happened was in a nutshell I had a series of really intense false awakenings in which I was just so completely convinced that I was waking up that I would literally go about and it's not even like it was a short dream, like this felt like ages, so I would have one false awakening where I thought I'd woken up in my head you know in the dream I was going through my routine getting ready for work and going downstairs you know making my breakfast and everything like that, getting dressed and I got all the way to work and then I got snapped back into the dream. But it felt like I had been there for about an hour or two, it really did feel convincing. Now I've spoken about time dilation before and you know to some degree I was lucid. Now this is where it gets confusing because although I was so aware and alert of the situation I was so aware of it but I thought it was real and this is one of the one of the sort of warnings about lucid dreaming is if you're too lucid you know you can really convince yourself that this is real and that's what happens in a lot of false awakenings. I was so completely sure that it was a real situation and that I had actually woken up that when I got snapped back it was so shocking and scary I guess but I just had no idea what was real and what wasn't. Now this I should mention I'd been sleeping badly you know leading up to this I've been not really sleeping very well I'd had a lot on my mind and I was a bit stressed and everything like that but that being said you know I should have been able to realize it was a dream or at the very least I should have been able to wake up from the false awakening and actually wake up and go about my day but I had maybe six or seven of these things and each one each time right each false awakening really felt like I was genuinely waking up and going to work and going about my day and the scary thing is I had no idea when it was gonna stop and so when I finally did wake up and actually you know I had to literally pinch myself like the cliche like they do in films I literally had to pinch myself to figure out whether I was dreaming or whether I was actually awake and in reality and it got to the point where I was quite worried and the line had become so blurred that I didn't know what was real and what wasn't and because up until that point I'd always thought you know you can always tell there's all you're always able to tell exactly when you're dreaming and exactly when you're asleep but this was different like I said I was pretty aware you know I felt lucid and I was sure I was awake but I wasn't obviously it was a it was a false awakening so since then I've obviously not given up lucid dreaming otherwise I wouldn't be making these videos and I wouldn't be lucid dreaming today I've come up with a few ways that you can avoid doing the same things I don't think any of you would want to experience that that's quite a scary thing no one really likes false awakenings they're quite annoying you know even if they're not scary they are annoying so a few things you can do the first one is make sure that as soon as you wake up whether you think you're awake or whether you know you're dreaming and you're in a lucid dream just always do a reality check as soon as you wake up and what this does is it makes sure that every future false awakening pretty much you're guaranteed to either lose a dream or wake up because if you do a reality check as soon as you wake up it's going to be pretty hard to fool you you know you're not going to be able to fool yourself with a false awakening very easily because you're going to be so used to doing reality checks as soon as you wake up that you'll just become lucid nothing really too confusing about that the second one is to write your dreams down obviously you should be writing notes on what you're dreaming about especially if you're having recurring false awakenings or if you're having the same dream about going to work or going to school or college or whatever and then being snatched back into the bed that's a routine based false awakening and they're quite easy to turn into a lucid dream if you take note of them and if you like practice or stuff anyway yeah that's it guys that's how you pretty much avoid false awakenings and avoid that scary situation which I experienced not so long ago oh by the way if you want to get $80 worth of lucid dream products I'm still doing that giveaway so for the next I think 11 or 12 days now you can enter this giveaway on houseoflucid.com forward slash enter that's not the key enter you need to type ENTER link in the description and if you do enter or if you have already entered make sure you confirm your entry and like click the other links like for example following my Instagram my other channels and things like that because you'll get extra entries and therefore more chances of winning the lovely prize which I've selected it's the bootcamp the lucid dream of bootcamp which I spent a lot of time perfecting if you don't know what that is go to houseoflucid.com forward slash bootcamp again these links are all in the description I hope you guys are reading their descriptions by the way because I put a lot of effort into compiling a list of useful links for you there you know there's links to my social media links to my other secret channels which you might not even know I had and various other things as well so check them out click the links down below and I'll see you next time