Your body has to be still. The theory between false awakenings and sleep paralysis is that what happens during both is similar. As with sleep paralysis, false awakening is related to disrupted REM sleep 4). It has to happen so you can have an out of body experience. The cause is OBE. i just woke up from being asleep for what seemed like hours only to realize it's been about 30 minutes . There’s no scientific consensus on the cause of false awakenings. A lucid dream is a dream where the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. Once they have actually woken up they can move as normal. However, false awakenings are not the same as sleep paralysis or lucid dreaming. In sleep paralysis, the dreamer wakes, but their body is frozen as if paralysed. The sleeper recognizes he’s asleep and tries to wake up. The EEG spectrum during sleep paralysis was intermediate between wakefulness and REM sleep in the alpha, theta and delta frequencies, whereas the beta frequencies were not different between sleep paralysis and normal REM sleep. A few suggested explanations for false awakenings include: sleep disorders, such as insomnia and sleep apnea. He opens his eyes in relief, but soon realizes he’s still asleep. sleep paralysis or false awakening ? I am someone who has had a lot of experience with phenomena associated with sleep, First we must consider what a “false awakening’ is thought to be. In sleep paralysis, although your mind awakes from sleep, your body remains paralysed and asleep for a minute or two (see previous blog on Sleep Paralysis). The dreamer might experience paralysis but only within the dream. However, perhaps due to muscle atonia, we cannot physically move, and the brain processes this order to move within the dream. A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep.After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing daily morning routine such as showering, cooking, cleaning, eating, and using the bathroom. Study Objectives:To determine the polysomnography characteristics during sleep paralysis, false awakenings, and lucid dreaming (which are states intermediate to rapid eye movement [REM] sleep … this just happened . The power spectrum during false awakening followed the same profile as in sleep paralysis. One of the scarier experiences with sleep paralysis is the inclusion of lucid dreaming and false awakening. I am not a doctor who is a sleep specialist. If it didn’t, you would wake up and lose the experience of Luis. You can’t be physically awake. 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