False awakenings play an important role in my novel, Lucidity. I experience them frequently - am convinced a dream has ended and I'm awake, only to discover I've entered a new lucid dream.
One of the great false awakening scenes in horror cinema occurs in An American Werewolf in London. Though the concept is used to create jump scares fairly frequently now, it was a pretty novel idea when John Landis first did it in 1981, and it certainly made me jump a mile the first time I saw it.
In honor of John Landis' birthday today, here is his great false awakening scene from American Werewolf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vociEM7pJXk
One of the great false awakening scenes in horror cinema occurs in An American Werewolf in London. Though the concept is used to create jump scares fairly frequently now, it was a pretty novel idea when John Landis first did it in 1981, and it certainly made me jump a mile the first time I saw it.
In honor of John Landis' birthday today, here is his great false awakening scene from American Werewolf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vociEM7pJXk