Top 10 Scary False Awakening Stories

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false

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is a dream in which a person believes they have woken up from their sleep, when in reality they are still sleeping. For some of you (this may already sound

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), imagine living your life thinking it's real, but you're actually dreaming: what if that was happening right now? For those of you who aren't convinced how

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this can be, I've compiled some of the scariest examples of this. Real

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from real people. My name is Danny Burke and these are the top 10 scary

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awakening

stories

. As you may already know, this is going to be a long video!

It's definitely the longest video I've ever made on this channel... I know a lot of you have been asking me to make longer videos and I think this one definitely deserves it. You may need to drink some water between stories. Starting at number 10 we have The Shovel. This story came from Reddit user Restless Things. They said: I ended up accidentally killing a guy in a dream when I saw someone hit him with a shovel. It wasn't me, but Dream Logic told me that I killed him. I cut it buried under a tree with the shovel resting on the trunk of the tree and its roots.

Everything is covered except for a rectangle showing his open, unblinking, soft neon green and blue eyes. (Footnote) "The camera" rises from the ground as if it were now floating perpendicularly above the grave, staring into his bright, impossible eyes. I wake up. I am late for school. I'm taking a while to prepare. My movements feel very heavy, but I finally manage it. I hear a knock on my room door. I open it and it's my mom telling me to hurry up. Oh, I also have a phone call. I respond nervously and suddenly my view is of a car driving down the valley road toward our neighborhood.

I come back to myself and start to get nervous. I hold my breath and enter the dining room where the entrance door to our house is. I hear a knock. I know who it is, but I'm forced to open the door. Towering over me in the doorway as it rains outside, I look up and see a shadowy figure, completely dead, except for her eyes. I start to scream or cry, but before I can, I wake up. It's morning and I'm not late. I look around the room and sigh in relief. You know that feeling when you realize, "Okay, I'm actually awake." With the optional "What the fuck just happened?" Yes.

That was it. I open the sun-blocking curtain and the sun fills the room. It feels so good. I smile and turn around and he's standing right next to me, looking at me, still shrouded in darkness except for his eyes. I wake up and cry. In fact, this time I'm awake. I look to the side and jump, even though there is nothing there. Moving on to number 9 we have Tears of Joy. This one came from Reddit user Vanntas, who said this gave them insomnia for a month. They said: -I remember that I woke up in panic, as if from a terrible dream.

My girlfriend wakes up to my shock and says, "It's okay honey, it was just a bad dream." I go to get out of bed to go to the bathroom but something is wrong, my limbs aren't working properly and I get out of bed and try to crawl towards the door. I reach for the door handle, but it gets further away the further I reach for it... Just then I woke up in my bed in a panic and thought, "What the fuck just happened?", and my girlfriend woke up with me. shock and she says, "It's okay baby, it was just a bad dream." I go to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, but my limbs are not working properly, I get up and try to crawl towards the door.

I reach for the handle and as the knob moves away, something clicks in my brain. This has happened before. At that point I woke up in my bed in a panic and thought "what the fuck?", and my shock woke up my girlfriend and she said, "It's okay babe, it was just a bad dream." Click. I started crying to my girlfriend and she says, “Shhh, it's okay, I'm here.” This was different. I want to splash water on my face, so I go to get out of bed but my limbs aren't working properly... I crawl towards the door, still reaching for the handle as it moves away.

Shit. At that point I woke up in my bed in a panic and thought, "MAKE IT STOP," and my shock woke up my girlfriend and she said, "It's okay, baby, it was just a bad dream." With frantic terror in my voice and tears in my eyes, I beg my girlfriend, “It keeps happening, please you have to help me!” She looks worried and says, “What's still going on?” Then, as if my will was being manipulated, I get out of bed, try to crawl towards the door, and reach for the handle as it recedes... I can't remember how many slight variations of this scenario were repeated over and over again.

But when I finally woke up and noticed light coming through the curtains, I jumped out of bed like a madman, ran to the door handle, and opened it. The hall! FREEDOM! I collapsed and began to cry trembling tears of joy. Moving on to number 8 we have The Little Girls. Creepy little girls are a creepy thing in real life, so I have a lot of sympathy for Reddit user Easy Angry Girl, who kept having false awakenings about them. She said -Lately I have been having false awakenings from nightmares, as the title says. I will dream that I am in bed and there is a foggy, disturbing atmosphere, in reality nothing happens but I am afraid.

I get to a point where I'm too scared and I think I want to wake up. Then I wake up and I'm in bed when two girls appear at my bedroom door talking, I can't understand what they're saying. Again, nothing really scary, but it scares me enough to want to wake up. Then I wake up and I'm in bed. Everything is normal, finally. My mother opens the door and comes in and I ask her what she is doing at home. She jumps on my bed, in an animal position, and she asks me if I'm scared. She starts biting her knee.

Then she gets closer and closer and all I can think is "I want to wake up NOW." Then I wake up and I'm left with this feeling of confusion, scared at the possibility that I haven't really woken up. It is not always the same dream and the number of false awakenings varies. I'm not sure what to do (or not do) to avoid going through this. It happens several times a week. Moving on to number 7, we have Hell and Back. This was posted on Reddit by Kurobix. And as you might expect from my name, it's not pretty.

They said: One night at some point while trying to fall asleep, I noticed auditory hallucinations. They were my same friend talking about anything I thought was funny. At one point I realized that he had subtle control over what he heard. (It's really hard to explain, because he was hearing unpredictable things, but I was able to change the subject.) He was aware that he was hallucinating and was going to enjoy the ride. At this point in real life, (or at least I think so) my friend's roommates were coming into the kitchen and doing whatever, and these sounds of dishes were mixed with my hallucinations, and I didn't know what was real and no. .

I became paralyzed and soon also had visual hallucinations of people entering the room, interacting with me, and leaving. (I'm sure at this point the roommates were gone, IF they were ever there and I wasn't just freaking them out.) These hallucinations were very subtle, they started out as just voices but eventually figures began to emerge. Throughout all of this, the amount of hallucinations came in waves, as I would like to describe it. The lower parts didn't have hallucinations, and I would fall asleep paralyzed on the couch, and the upper parts were people coming into the room and saying things.

I kept waking up, back on the couch, staring at the room, paralyzed, slowly emerging back into whatever this dream/hallucination experience was. I had countless false awakenings here, at the time I thought they were real. Each time I woke up staring at the room, unable to move, listening and soon seeing things I thought were real. I thought I wasn't in a real dream. I thought I was just sleep deprived and hallucinating. (my mind projected sounds and images onto the real life environment I was looking at). I was finally able to move and was able to see my friend and talk to him, and I thought this was all real, but it was a false awakening, as I soon found out when I woke up again.

It was around this point where I realized something wasn't right, I wanted to get out, I wanted to get up, but I was stuck in this place, paralyzed. I was stuck in this loop of waking up on the couch and hallucinating until a surreal dream sequence came up. I realized I was in this trippy, twisted version of reality, which was brightly colored and looked less and less like the real place I was in. Here I had the thought, "this is hell" and I prayed for this madness to stop, asking to be saved by Jesus, I was in full existential panic mode.

I soon came to a room, which opened outside, it was getting dark and there was a square pool, with water about 2 to 3 feet deep, and there was a brown pitbull with 3 bumps on its head (slightly chubbier versions of what I thought). giraffes have on their heads). It was just a strange looking dog and it was attacking a smaller, helpless black pug in the water. It looked like the pitbull was trying to drown him.) I yelled at him and he stopped, got out and looked at the pool. Now, in the pool there was another brown pit bull, and he was being attacked by 2 black pugs, and something about it all felt really profound.

The pitbull that came out of the water moments before gave me a worried look. My mother was nearby and commented, "another little one and it will be fair," saying that another black pug should help the others drown the pitbull, although it seemed like the pitbull was now losing to the pugs keeping him down. water. I walked back into the house, ready to give up, as I said one last prayer for help, and shortly after, my friend's real-life roommates came back, made too much noise, and I woke up, no longer paralyzed. . I was back in reality. Thank God.

Next up at number 6 we have On The Roof. This one came from Reddit user Your Username 22. My family recently moved to a new house, so this was about a year ago. We've all experienced something strange in our old house, whether it's an uneasy feeling, hearing voices, seeing things, lights turning on and off, etc., you get the point. We mostly ignore it, maybe laugh a lot at a couple of things. Anyway, I've always had very vivid dreams. A couple of years ago I had four dreams in one night about a ghost in our house. No big deal, whatever.

So in this particular dream. I remember being in a huge warehouse type place that was covered in moss and almost looked like it had burned down. He was with a group of other teenagers. We were there to "open our third eye", one by one we would go to this room, they would tie us up and a woman would open our third eye, I don't remember exactly but I had a horrible feeling in the dream. She was evil. I'm pretty sure a kid came out and warned us after she had her third eye opened. I changed my mind and wanted to leave, but she took me to the room and tied me up.

At that moment I felt pure fear. She stuck something in my forehead and I woke up. (Then I thought) I was in my room, in my bed. I still have this intense feeling and I looked up at the ceiling. There she was. Hovering right above me with this horrible evil look. (Think of Medusa) she tried to pull me out of bed towards the ceiling. This was a feeling I had once before trying to get out of sleep paralysis. As if my soul was being separated from my body. I remember trying to fight back and finally falling into bed and this time waking up.

I searched my room for a good ten minutes. I was almost ready to cry. That was one of the scariest dreams I have ever experienced in my entire life. Moving on to number 5, we have The Lost Finger. This was shared by a Reddit user who said that false awakenings often happen to them, but this is one of the worst cases they have ever faced. They said: "I hadn't woken up yet, but I was having a nightmare that I was visiting my mother and she took an overdose of pills, she started shaking hysterically, throwing black foam out of her mouth and then she started smiling and at that moment I knew it".

It was a nightmare and I forced myself to wake up. When I woke up, I was in my room. Only the furniture was rearranged and my bed blocked the door. My bed frame is extremely heavy (too heavy for one person to move) and there is no way out except a window and the door I was blocking. I started panicking trying to figure out what the fuck was going on and who did this. I was still a little shaken from the previous nightmare and couldn't really gather my thoughts. I occasionally take ambien to help me sleep, so it occurred to me that I sleepwalked (?) and rearranged my furniture, but I couldn't explain my bed blocking the door.

I tried to open the window to get out, but when I managed to open it, my hand had like 9 fingers and some were very deformed. I got scared so I closed my eyes, shook my head and tried to wake up again. This time, I was in an unfamiliar room, but this time I stoppedtry to wake up and tried to start controlling my sleep. Although I couldn't. I tried to fly but I could only float. I tried changing my environment, but it only caused more creepy things to happen until really unpleasant things happened that made me try to wake up again.

This time when I woke up, it might have been real, except I was so tired I started to fall asleep, but I held myself back and said, "No, man, you gotta get up." I didn't want to keep having nightmares. Only sleep paralysis set in and I felt like I couldn't wake up enough to escape it. The cycle of false awakening and actual awakening with sleep paralysis occurred a few more times and led to another nightmare until what seemed like an hour had passed. Moving on to number 4, we have The Figure. This is a simple one that Avenged Thrice posted on Reddit, like Loops Go, this one is pretty awful.

They said: This happened a few years ago and that's why I don't remember the details of my original lucid dream. What I do remember is that I was having a great time when I suddenly woke up in my bed. Thinking nothing was wrong, I went to close my eyes again only to see a dark figure walk past my door, his head turned towards me. Knowing it couldn't be a family member or friend (I was all alone in the house), I quickly became scared. At this moment I woke up again, only to see the same figure passing by while looking at me.

This continued 2 or 3 more times until I started seriously losing my mind. It must have happened literally another 10 times, to the point where when I finally woke up for real, I was completely drenched in sweat and shaking profusely. It took me about 5 minutes to work up the courage to get out of bed and leave my room, but I was still far from convinced that I was actually awake. Throughout the day I was extremely anxious and couldn't function normally. To this day, thinking back on that morning scares me to death, especially knowing it could happen again. Moving on to number 3, we have Madness.

This story came from a Reddit user named Hannah, who said she had this dream after a weekend of partying and believes this had something to do with it. She said: I remember turning off the TV because I was sleepy and the next thing I know I'm "waking up" to the black figure of my housemate (I don't know the guy very well, he's a bit creepy/completely) walking into my room. room. I felt like I was watching the scene through a mesh screen or I was just aware of it but couldn't open my eyes properly. I felt like I was drugged.

I felt him get into bed with me and then he lay on top of me and started kissing me. I was trying to fight him but I felt paralyzed and completely knocked out, I remember trying to bite him while he was kissing me, I remember trying to shout his name and tell him to stop. Then I woke up again and realized it must have been a horrible dream, but the only way I came to this conclusion is through logic. I mean, he felt so real, he was in the same position on my bed, everything was the same... but I can't imagine my housemate would have done this.

So I can only assume it was a realistically horrible nightmare. I continue to have more 'false awakenings' throughout the night, one I felt like I was high again and I think I was in a half lucid dream (or maybe this was sleep paralysis?) and I was wondering if there was a leak of carbon monoxide because I felt I was very sleepy but mentally conscious and couldn't get up, I vividly remember trying to open my eyes and couldn't. Like I was dreaming, I was in my bed in real life but dying from this poisoning trying to wake up/save my life and I couldn't.

I actually woke up again at 02:30 and felt like it should be 06:00 by now with everything that had happened. Then I stayed there for the next 3 hours, but I felt like I was somewhere between sleep and wakefulness. I had strange thought patterns and links, I was hearing voices, noises, like crazy, random dreams, but half awake I didn't feel rested or asleep at all. I've experienced something similar before, as I fall asleep I feel my thoughts making more random connections, but never before has it been in the middle of the night and been so long and terrifying. I felt like I was going crazy and this along with the nightmares of not being able to wake up, I just feel like I was going crazy.

Moving on to number 2 we have Infinite Loops. I originally found this story on a Lucid Dream website. I was having dinner with my family + my grandfather + some people I don't remember. Then I started recognizing some weird things that didn't make sense and finally the idea came to mind that maybe I was in a dream. so I pushed my chair back and shouted, "This is a dream, isn't it?" then everyone started looking at me and suddenly the scene changed, I was back in my bed and the lights were off, I knew it was still a dream because I didn't turn off the lights that night, for a few seconds nothing happened, then I heard someone was laughing at me, I couldn't see who.

I got scared, I tried to move my head but I couldn't. Then suddenly I woke up in my bed with the lights on. At first I thought I had woken up in real life, but then I found out I hadn't. It was another dream! I got even more scared. Then I tried to wake up, after many attempts I woke up in my bed, but again I found out that it was another dream. This continued to happen more than twenty times. Every time I woke up I started screaming and screaming, even in one of these loops, after I woke up I went and woke up my brother in the other room and told him what was going on and he told me.

I told myself I was crazy, later in the dream I found out it was also a dream, so again I started screaming and jumping. Finally, in the last loop I saw a big giant robot in my room trying to crush me, so I finally woke up in my real bed. During my 30s I couldn't figure out if it was real or not. I haven't been able to sleep since that dream because I'm afraid the loop will start again. And finally at number 1 we have Body Melting. I found this on a Ryerson University site. Evan Manning shared a story that said: I'm awake.

I've been there for what seems like a couple of hours. Before that I had been sleeping peacefully in my bed, with my girlfriend by my side. I'm not entirely sure of the exact timing of my recent events since I woke up. Life at this moment, for some strange reason, is extremely blurry. A few moments ago I was in a car watching a movie and before that, I was in a classroom getting advice from an instructor on a paper I had in progress. Now I'm sitting on my couch, watching football on a fall Sunday. I don't know how I got from the classroom to the car to here so fluidly, but I still feel comfortable.

My girlfriend is sitting with me. We don't say much to each other. My attention is mainly focused on the football game I'm watching on my TV. I also have my laptop in hand to check out other NFL scores. Without mentioning where she is going, my girlfriend suddenly gets up and walks out the back door. When she leaves, I notice that the blinds on the door are completely closed, so I can look at her if I want. I look at my watch and notice that it's almost dinner time, which doesn't make sense. Just a couple of hours ago I was sleeping, waiting for the morning.

How can it be so late? I'm starting to panic. Now that my head is spinning, I move to check out what my girlfriend is still doing in my backyard. The blinds are somehow closed now and my house feels freezing. I have the unsettling feeling that she is completely gone. In that instant, I realize that I am dreaming and have been awake in a realistic dreamscape for several hours. An immense fear settles in my stomach. I get dizzy and vomit. My body melts and I collapse. I need to wake up. I start screaming for help to anyone who can hear me.

Between muffled screams, my girlfriend shakes me conscious and I realize I'm still in bed. Now I'm really awake. Alright guys, I usually have a pretty long introduction, but this video was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long video's,'s-o-many, one-of-a-kind, one-of-a-kind, one-of-a-kind kind of thing. Let me know the strange dream experiences of her. Thanks for watching, as always guys, my name is Danny Burke and I'll see you all in the next video.