MEANING
A dream in which a person believes they have awakened and begun ordinary waking activity while still asleep.
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- a false awakening
- repeated false awakenings
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A false awakening let her read the letter before she woke to find it sealed.
Repeated false awakenings made the bedroom’s details increasingly unreliable in the story.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular false awakening; plural false awakenings. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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