<P> A false awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep . After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing daily morning rituals such as cooking, cleaning and eating . False awakenings, namely those in which one dreams that one has awoken from sleep that featured dreams, take on aspects of a double dream or a dream within a dream . A classic example is the double false awakening of the protagonist in Gogol's Portrait (1835). </P> <P> A false awakening may occur following a dream or following a lucid dream (one in which the dreamer has been aware of dreaming). Particularly, if the false awakening follows a lucid dream, the false awakening may turn into a "pre-lucid dream", that is, one in which the dreamer may start to wonder if they are really awake and may or may not come to the correct conclusion . In a study by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett, 2,000 dreams from 200 subjects were examined and it was found that false awakenings and lucidity were significantly more likely to occur within the same dream or within different dreams of the same night . False awakenings often preceded lucidity as a cue, but they could also follow the realization of lucidity, often losing it in the process . </P>

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