Has anyone ever had a lucid dream within a dream?

**reduc** · 10-16-2012 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by StonedApe

PercyLucid(I think that's his screen-name) did. THere's a thread on it somewhere, not his thread. Someone else said that wanted to have a project to see if was possible, so Percy just went and did it. But he's a natural.

I'll have to look at that. Though, I doubt having a dream within a dream is really a better or deeper lucid dream- You can't get anymore lucid than fully lucid TRUST ME. The only thing I'd expect with having a dream within a dream is like I said before a more creative lucid dream and one where you could encounter more hostility and violence from your subconscious. That's been the case with most of the dream within a dream experiences I ve had or my friends have had. I think its just a byproduct of your dreaming brain moving from one place to the next and feeling uncomfortable. By not setting up any rules about what a lucid dream is or isnt you can actually encounter manifestations of your own violent subconscious, which I always thought was really crazy and interesting... that's the part that I thought Inception got right... Personally I don't think there are multiple "levels" to a dream, its just letting your mind access different parts of your brain really. People who think there are multiple levels to the dream are ignoring the physiology of the brain, etc.

**barca10** · 10-16-2012 05:30 PM

Thank you! That makes a whole lot more sense!! To me I've tried lucid dreaming but its really hard gor me to try and remember to tell myself its just a dream or to look in a mirror or look at time or dates like what can i do to help me? I also have something else yo say. So this has been happening to me for about 5 years, when I'm exhausted and try to go to sleep i feel something really heavy ontop of me which doesn't allow me to move at all and if i try to talk or yell nothing comes out of my mouth not a sound. The way it always starts is i here either chimes, bells, whispers, a screech, or i can here the wind on my ceiling fan, these noises start soft but that's all i can hear and they start getting louder and louder and louder and then that's when i know when its going to happen. At first i was kind of freaked out and then i got use to it. I told my parents and they thought it was something bad because in mexico they have a saying fpr yhis which they say "se te suve el muerto" which means "a dead person gets on you." I didnt beleive this because it happened to frequent and it got to the point where it even happened at school. I would be asleep in class and i felt that happen my body got really heavy and i couldnt get up. So then I researched and talked to my cousin and a friend to see what it is and they said that that's what happens when your going to have an "out of body experience" I've tried it i tried using the "rope theory" and i felt like it was working it was a weird feeling and hard to explqin but i got scared and just woke myself up. It use to happen very frequent like up to 5 times a day before I'd fall asleep. It still happens but not as frequent. I'm almost to the point where i can make it happen if i want but it only works some times. What i want to know is why does it happen to me?

**reduc** · 10-17-2012 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by barca10

Thank you! That makes a whole lot more sense!! To me I've tried lucid dreaming but its really hard gor me to try and remember to tell myself its just a dream or to look in a mirror or look at time or dates like what can i do to help me? I also have something else yo say. So this has been happening to me for about 5 years, when I'm exhausted and try to go to sleep i feel something really heavy ontop of me which doesn't allow me to move at all and if i try to talk or yell nothing comes out of my mouth not a sound. The way it always starts is i here either chimes, bells, whispers, a screech, or i can here the wind on my ceiling fan, these noises start soft but that's all i can hear and they start getting louder and louder and louder and then that's when i know when its going to happen. At first i was kind of freaked out and then i got use to it. I told my parents and they thought it was something bad because in mexico they have a saying fpr yhis which they say "se te suve el muerto" which means "a dead person gets on you." I didnt beleive this because it happened to frequent and it got to the point where it even happened at school. I would be asleep in class and i felt that happen my body got really heavy and i couldnt get up. So then I researched and talked to my cousin and a friend to see what it is and they said that that's what happens when your going to have an "out of body experience" I've tried it i tried using the "rope theory" and i felt like it was working it was a weird feeling and hard to explqin but i got scared and just woke myself up. It use to happen very frequent like up to 5 times a day before I'd fall asleep. It still happens but not as frequent. I'm almost to the point where i can make it happen if i want but it only works some times. What i want to know is why does it happen to me?

The reason this happens is because part of your body has begun sleeping and your mind has not begun sleeping. This can actually lead to lucid dreaming. The strange noises your are hearing happen between the time in between your body shutting down and your mind turning off. If you are not exhausted when u go to sleep this will not happen and your body and mind will go into dream mode at the same time. Again, the noises and flashes and weight has alot to do with your mind not yet going into REM sleep but your body is already asleep. If you can get used to this and not get freaked out or think its a ghost, then u should be able to easily lucid dream right after the noise passes if you can remind yourself its just a dream.

**barca10** · 10-17-2012 02:00 AM

How can it help me lucid dream though? Like I'm not scared of it or anything sometimes its annoying but like I've never tried falling asleep while that's happening. What would happen if i fell asleep while in that process?

**reduc** · 10-17-2012 02:25 AM

You are more likely to remember your dream. You may be aware that its a dream, you probably wont go lucid but you might be able to go lucid. First try to remember the dream after u hear the noise.

**barca10** · 10-17-2012 02:32 AM

Thank you!

**reduc** · 10-18-2012 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by barca10

Thank you!

No problem my friend! Good luck on your adventures I hope to hear more from you if successful. U appear to be a natural as someone said. Yeah let me know if u go lucid after the information. It would be cool if my explanation caused someone to have their first lucid.

**barca10** · 10-18-2012 09:57 PM

What do you mean a natural? Yeah it actually has helped I've reminded myself that its a dream but i can't quite control dream yet.

**woblybil** · 10-21-2012 08:51 AM

What I considered to be a dream within a dream was my conscious mind sitting back and watching my subconscious mind at work.
As I lose the separation of them is when I'm slipping in and out of lucidity (I think)

**clickadam** · 10-23-2012 03:05 AM

No dreams like that. I have quite a lot of 'Lucid Dreams' - dreams where you keep half awake and can actually control what goes on in the dream. I think they're just as wierd.

As for dreams within dreams? Maybe the Matrix has you. I hope they're not too frightening for you. That would really suck. A Nightmare you couldn't wake up from...

**StHaborym** · 08-19-2017 02:47 AM

I had a lucid dream and woke up into a regular dream once but didn't realize I was still dreaming. Then I woke up for real. That totally is a thing. Inception can happen IRL.

**spellbee2** · 08-19-2017 03:55 AM

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