Dream within a dream experience.

**MrTimeOut** · 08-22-2011 07:42 PM

When I was 7 years old I had a dream that I was in my house in New York and what stood out in this dream, was the fact that everything in my room was exactly where it should have been. Usually when I had a dream of my room something would be different. In the dream I felt really sick and was sweating profusely, my first instinct was to get to my mother. So I started to get up I blacked out and woke up in my bed, at this point I thought I was awake and thought to myself "what a weird dream". I still felt sick so I started to get up again but this time as my feet touched the floor i woke up back in my bed. This process happened sequentially about 6 or 7 times that night. Each time i got closer to my mother i would have to wake up and try again, i didn't actually wake up until i made contact with my mom. When i finally did awake i had to go to my mom again in reality this time around and i did end up being sick 103 fever.

**Arch** · 08-22-2011 11:20 PM

Very interesting, were you not lucid at any point?

**MrTimeOut** · 08-23-2011 12:59 AM

It's hard to say, i mean after repeating it so many times you would think that i knew it was a dream at some point but I've been lucid before and the feeling is different. So I'm going to go with no i was not lucid.

**Arch** · 08-23-2011 11:21 AM

That's pretty crazy, I've heard that people can have strings of False Awakenings, which also can be hard to detect. I can only suggest to do more reality checks in order to realise you are dreaming.

**MrTimeOut** · 08-23-2011 04:32 PM

What exactly could I do as a reality check?

**Robo** · 08-23-2011 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by MrTimeOut

What exactly could I do as a reality check?

Pinch your nose and try to breathe through it, and/or check if you have 10 fingers (then try to grow one), that's what I usually do.

**MrTimeOut** · 08-24-2011 12:23 AM

lmao expected someone to say make a totem for my self like in inception but that sounds al lot more exciting.

**Mancon** · 08-29-2011 10:10 AM

That sounds very interesting. I have had a dream like that before. I got up and got ready for school and then all of a sudden I would wake up. Each time I woke up again, I got longer in the school day. I woke up like 4 times in total. That day at school was very long.

Originally Posted by MrTimeOut

lmao expected someone to say make a totem for my self like in inception but that sounds al lot more exciting.

Totem's in inception don't really work well.

**nina** · 08-29-2011 02:52 PM

This is not a "dream within a dream", they are called False Awakenings. Very common.

**MrTimeOut** · 08-29-2011 06:14 PM

This is true but when you think about it, what is the difference? If this is a false awakening then what would be a dream within a dream experience?

**nina** · 08-30-2011 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by MrTimeOut

This is true but when you think about it, what is the difference? If this is a false awakening then what would be a dream within a dream experience?

If you have a lucid dream, then go to sleep and enter a new dream, and then wake up from that dream into the first lucid dream (instead of waking up completely) then it was a dream inside a dream. Just having false awakenings back to back are not a dream within a dream, it's completely linear, not stratified.