Lucid dream?

[Dimitry]

I had an interesting experience this morning. I'll write out a timeline to explain it better.

11:55PM - go to bed, set alarm for 6:30AM

~12:25AM -fall asleep

5:55AM - Wake up because of something (can't remember if it was having to go to the washroom or something else, anyways, I woke up). Decide to go to bed since I still have some time to sleep.

6:30AM - wake up when alarm goes off and hit snooze on auto pilot, go back to bed.

6:39AM - wake up for the final time and get up.

Between 6:30-9 is where the interesting thing happened. When I "woke up" at 6:39 it didn't feel like I went back to bed. This is what I remembered:

That I was just lying on my bed dozing in and out of sleep, sort of like you do when you're reading something heavy (think physics) and are doing it while lying down. I also have a brace on my left hand's pinky finger because the last tip is broken. The brace is tapped. I definatelly recall the feeling of taking off the tap to remove the brace (the usual thing I do every morning when I go to shower) and that awkard feeling of my pinky when I first "set it free" and start to move it around (since it's been pointing straight for nearly 23hs straight).

When I "woke up" at 6:39 though, on the alarm, I was in a sleeping position and my brace was still on. Nothing remotely close to what I experienced had happened.

Any ideas if that's what a lucid dream feels like or is it just some interesting occurance?

[Blueskied]

You mean, you thought you were doing all this brace stuff between 6:30 and 6:39 but when you woke up at 6:39 you realized that you were just sleeping?
Sounds like a false awakening to me.
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[Dimitry]

Interesting...seems I had more of Type II awakening. I recall one detail I forgot about before. The reason I woke up at 5:55 was that I was having an obsurd dream of being in an apartment (similar to mine though significantly different from my analysis when I woke up) talking to my roommate. All of a sudden it gets stormy outside and it's really bad. Like dark skies, hurricane style winds and all. There is also a giant crane and the part that's attached to the top of the crane starts swinging. I ask my roommate if it's dangerous (or something similar to that), he says no. Then I look and it's moving at more unpredictable speeds. I wake up at 5:55 with the last image of that thing swinging at me (would have hit me if I stayed in the dream).

But the wakeup the false awakening between 6:30-9, it everything was exactly the same as in my room, nothing unusual. I could even feel everything being the same as if I was awake. This is the first time I experienced something like this so I can't speak from experience, maybe that's exactly how the false awakening is supposed to be like. Just found it peculiar.

Actually the only similar thing I recall ever happening was going to bed, feeling as I just turned over to my side from my back and hearing the alarm clock. I look at the clock and it's 8 hours later. That was pretty freaky also.

[Blueskied]

My (highly speculative) guess: You'll soon experience a lucid dream. Your dream life seems to be sufficiently messed up already.

[vuurstorm]

When I decided to start jogging in the morning I was very septic because it is still very dark at that time and this bothered me a lot when I went to bed.
The next morning I experienced three false awakenings starting with me getting ready for the run and stopping as soon as I started running. When I finally woke up I almost didn't go for the run because I wasn't sure it it was really happening and I got fed up of restarting the day over and over.