When did real labour after false labour start for you?

Im pretty sure i just experienced false labour. Im 36 weeks i was having contractions that would get down to about 3 mins apart and quite painful then they would just stop. Only to start up again about an hour later starting at about 10-15 mins apart and work down to 3 mins then stop again. this lasted about 24 hours yesterday. I ended up in the hospital where they did all the tests and found no reason for my contractions to be like this and i eventually went home. Since they could not tell me what was going on im assuming i went into false labour.

That said my question is have you experienced something similar possibly around the same time as me and when did real labour start.

This is my second baby, first was born only a year ago. No complications everything with baby is fine. The weirdest thing is that how this labour started was exactly how it was with my first daughter only i stopped contracting then 6 hours later my water breaks, then contractions started back up again and into full on labour. thats why i was so sure this was it. Guess not. Please give your experiences.