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The original "how can I tell if we're in a simulation" discussion:

https://www.thelucidguide.com/the-butterfly-dream-chuang-tzu...

False awakenings are another aspect of dreams:

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/false-awakening

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As a child, for a few years I had a recurring nightmare with multiple false awakenings, sometimes five or six until I would wake up for real.

I would wake up in bed, get up and at a specific point, an overwhelming feeling of impending doom would overcome me. Then at the peak of this emotion, a monster would grab me by my ankles and violently drag me back up the stairs and into bed. I would then wake up and repeat the process.

Sometimes, I was not sure anymore if I landed in reality or if this existence will turn into horror again.

I have the same style of dream too. Except it's not scary just annoying. I dream my alarm went off, I got up, got ready and then boom, my alarm is backing going off, "oh that was just a dream", cycle repeats. This happens most of the night until I eventually wake up for real 2-3 minutes before my alarm actually goes off. This will also happen as I'm in some other dream. Like the first iteration, I'm dreaming something weird and the alarm wakes me up, but it's just a dream wake up. Annoying.

I had a dream like that a few months ago. Woke up around 5 times in my supposed bed. Each wakeup became more and more realistic but there was always something out of place like my lamp suddenly not being there or my door being open which then would make me "wake up" again. I was pretty damn conscious/lucid by the last wakeup but I didn't realize I was dreaming until I turned on the light, turned on the TV, switched to YouTube, selected a video, watched some of it and saw the video controls being wrong. Being aware of me having woken up so many times already at this point and this also being fake gave me the biggest sense of dread I've felt in a long long time. Luckily then I actually woke up for real.

> Luckily then I actually woke up for real.

Or did you? Wake up Janicc, it's still 1999, we miss you.

First site: "For the security of our visitors and to avoid abuse of the site, this website runs a zero VPN, Tor, or Proxy.

They must have extremely valuable info? Then i checked it through a cache, almost no content, affiliate links, a shop and huge popup.

Is that site a complete joke or is this some new anti AI thing?

Where is that? I can't find. I know the owner. One of the few contemporary LD teachers you can trust to not give fake info. Still posts videos with clickbait thumbnails on YouTube though. He is not technical at all. There is plenty of content on the site, as well as the archived old LD forum, but the navigation is rather cumbersome, yeah.

I see. And appreciate all "old web content" though the current setup seems pretty visitor hostile, with anti VPN lockout (you only see if you have VPN), huge popup etc.

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