False awakening

"Dream within a dream" redirects here. For the poem, see A Dream Within a Dream.

A false awakening is a vivid scenario in which a person dreams that they have woken up, while still actually asleep. After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing their daily morning routine such as showering or eating breakfast. False awakenings, particularly those in which individuals dream they have awakened from a sleep that involved dreaming, take on aspects of a double dream or a dream within a dream. A classic example in fiction is the double false awakening of the protagonist in Gogol's Portrait (1835).

Some studies have shown that false awakenings are frequently related to lucid dreaming, often transitioning into one another. The key distinction is that during a lucid dream, the dreamer recognizes they are dreaming, while in a false awakening, this awareness is absent.

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