FALSE AWAKENING - Short Film (2017)

Film by Ali Al-Saqr

Person wakes up only to find himself in a dream within a dream, a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the person in reality continues to sleep. The endless loop of false awakening.

- Actor
Valon Curroja

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[alejandrach]

That.. scared the F*** out of me.
Ive been trying to figure out what issue i have and it is really a combination of sleep paralysis, false awakenings and lucid dreaming. It is so frustruating knowing you are in a dream but you cant wake up and when you do it just a dream within another dream. I used to tell myself i was in a dream and i needed to wake up but that no longer works. The only thing that triggers me going into that state is if im too hot (temperature). Even if i wake up in the real world my sleep is too heavy that i go back to where i was and trying to wake up again is the most stressing thing ever.

[spongebobsquarepants]

It’s good to know I’m not the only one who experienced this

[chairmainedmones]

I woke up 6 times this morning, that’s why i find this video, haha

[zackv]

Watching this cause this shit just happened to me. People thibk this is just a scary film and nothing else are wrong. This is real and it happens.

[low_rango]

This morning I "woke up" 3 times. I had a lucid nightmare and "woke up" twice from it, both times I woke my husband up telling him about my nightmare only for him to tell me my nightmare really happened before I actually really woke up. Even when I was really awake I still questioned if I was dreaming. It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced!

[clarinetstar]

When it happens to me the whole thing consists of me trying to get to the other room but my body is too heavy, as soon as I manage any progress to getting to the other room, I wake up in bed again for it to repeat

[izatk]

I got this quite often to the point when I'm getting it I'll be like "owh shit here we go again!"
But I'm lucky that there's no demon or crazy shit, just me trying my hardest in waking up and depicting is it real or not.

[Monik_ocha]

Finally a video that shows how scary these can be & let me just say your awakenings were pretty chill here. I just woke up from having back to back false awakenings for 2 hours. I wish mines were as simple as waking up, washing my face or making coffee but my brain makes up the scariest most creepy things ever. Like waking up to my puppy crying like a baby in the crate, or having two of each of my family members, or my husband chocking me, or stabbing me. Most of the times I notice the strange aspect of the awakening right away but it takes so long for me to be able to actually wake up from it. These suck so bad! 😣

[sumanparmar]

False Awakening is scary. This happened to me and i was in a loop 10 times😭 that was scary as shit.

[Icute]

This happened to me this morning, I woke up at least 7 times on a loop.

[ついどろろ]

I've experienced this and it was really exhausting

[nstcg]

Actually becoming scared after being aware of the false awakening can only
Increase the intensity of fear in the next one.

Only way to relieve from it is by just relaxing and get back to sleep...
Convince your mind that it's fine and fun and don't be scared

The odds are

You wake after a nap
Or just wake right away

[allisonventures]

This just happened to me. I have tears in my eyes. It was so scary.

[msbballs]

this happened too me an i woke up in my room but noticed my family was acting way different an my neighborhood looked different. so thats when i knew i was dreaming so i jumped down a flight of stairs head first😁

[ArmaanKumar]

This is pretty much what it feels like

[robertwolf]

Bruhhh, I had this but with sleep paralysis. Every time I got out of sleep paralysis it pulled me into another one, and when I got out of that one, it pulled me into another one. Just like false awakening but with sleep paralysis. Like a loop mode on

[goose]

I had a nightmarish false awakening. I laid in my bed, could barely move because I felt so heavy. Then whenever I got to another room, I would just fall through the floor and through a dark ocean, I have thalassophobia.

After that one I had another where whenever I would try going out of my bed I would just fly out of the window. Happened around 10 times before I woke for real.

[gregorycampbell]

After reading the comments, Im so glad I'm not the only one. I swear my loop dreams are glimpses of HELL. The further I go into a loop the more demonic it becomes. Its always in my house and my first objective is to check on my daughter and then my boys. When I get back to my room shit gets fucked up to the point I wake up, but it starts again. You can imagine by the time Im actually awake and I check on the kids, it's a very weird feeling returning to my room. Especially considering that in the last loop I am always surrounded by the same three female demons/witches and a red sky over my room with no roof. The more loops I go through the harder it is for me to walk and talk, I get super dizzy and the realm becomes very intense.

[JackoKing_]

When this happened to me I only realised I was still in a dream because things around my house were different and stuff had been moved around.

[Myrrhaki]

Awesome video and so reassuring to see it! I have these pretty often and they’ve always been scary, like something unnatural/evil/demonic’s around me. I’ve looked around to see if others had suffered through something similar, but only mentioned sleep paralysis or that nothing scary happened in their FAs. Seeing your movie’s honestly like a huge relief because for the longest I’ve felt like I’ve lost my mind since I’ve been unable to find similar experiences 😭 Thanks a lot for this!