Strangely enough I experience this every night. Just this morning I had a had a pretty eye opening revelation. I wake up every night around 4-5. I assume from nightmares, I always remember waking up terrified but never remember the dreams. I dilly dally for a few minutes, get out of bed to get some water or something then go back to sleep. On my second round of sleeping I have horrendous nightmares and at a certain point I realize I’m dreaming but can’t wake myself up. I remember every gory detail and by the time I do actually wake up it has me questioning if I’m still dreaming or not. It makes mornings awful.

This has been happening for years and I just today realized the worst part is always on my second round of sleep. I’m gonna start trying to just wake up around that 4-5 time and then take a nap during the day if I need too.

Try blinking (hard, and repeatedly), that should end the dream state

This happens to me semi-regularly (I think it’s due to anxiety about struggling to wake/stay awake because I have narcolepsy) and it is awful.

I try to find a clock to figure out the time or count something. The math part of my brain seems to not work when I’m dreaming.

How do you know you still arent lucid dreaming? (just kidding)