Dreaming within a dream

**inthemirror92** · 10-24-2010 09:31 AM

Have you ever been having a non-lucid and at some point in the dream you get in a bed and go to sleep.. shortly after, waking up into another dream? Then possibly becoming Lucid?

I've had this happen a few times. Sometimes I'll even meditate in a non-lucid dream, then I will enter a LD from the meditative state after closing my eyes. Just last night I went to sleep within a dream, woke up in another dream, did a reality check and became lucid. I got excited, & knew I was going to wake up. I focused on staying asleep. After focusing I tried to move and I could not. I became paralyzed (my dream body did) and woke up.

Have you ever had a similar experience before?
or..
Do you know why or how i became paralyzed?

**Skicanoe** · 10-24-2010 10:34 AM

Somehow I never seem to experience (that I notice) sleep paralysis. But I've often had the dream within a dream thing. Because I'm in the habit of trying to recall a dream immediately when I wake up, before I move around or look around too much, I find I'm doing the recall during a false awakening. I'll be trying to go back to sleep and re-enter a dream, and starting to do so when I suddenly - out of the blue - realize "Hey, I didn't wake up in (town A), my body is really back in (town B)! I own two small homes about a hundred miles apart, the smaller of which I use to shorten my work commute (and access the internet). Or I think that I'm in bed at some hotel or motel or at my parents place and suddenly realize that that was months or years ago that I was there. For some reason the realization occurs in a flash when I'm already amidst a re-entered dream. So this is in-itself a form of lucidity, but I usually don't become completely lucid and start experimenting, I usually just go back to the dream re-entry or enter a new dream.
P.S> You were paralyzed because you were never really awake! And I've meditated in dreams too, or tried to use go-to-sleep relaxation techniques. Or try and try to get back to sleep and damn this stupid hotel bed, then -wait a minute!

**moongrass** · 10-24-2010 10:54 AM

something similar thats happened to me several times is, I will dream im trying to wild and than "wake up" in another dream lucid, and at first I think I actually WILD until the next morning when I think about it more and notice slightly weird things, or it was easy to know once, cause I was sitting cross legged in a field trying to WILD!!!

**Skicanoe** · 10-24-2010 11:01 AM

Hi Moongrass, guess your having trouble sleeping this early morning too. Wonder if these posts will really be there when we check again! I THINK I'm awake!

**no-Name** · 10-24-2010 11:11 AM

It's called a false awakening, or an FA. They're pretty common.

**Skicanoe** · 10-24-2010 11:28 AM

I guess I'm resistant to get fully lucid after realizing a false awakening because that I think I won't get my rest if I do. There is something very soothing about the dream process that I naturally crave. Of course when I think back on it during the day, I wish I had taken on full lucid dream control, but my will is so weak at the time.
I will have to think on this...

**inthemirror92** · 10-25-2010 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by no-Name

It's called a false awakening, or an FA. They're pretty common.

i know. i have them often. i'm really looking for help as to why i was paralyzed in my dream after becoming excited

**matthew123** · 10-25-2010 03:38 AM

i have used a DEILD method in a dream and went into an false awakening and when i looked around my room i saw floating geometric shapes and i was like omg im dreaming!

**Puffin** · 10-25-2010 03:44 AM

They're not really a dream inside a dream, but a dream that ends and another one begins. They're called "false awakenings", as already mentioned. Anything can happen in dreams; lots of times after attempting (and failing) WILDs, I enter sleep paralysis within a dream.

**inthemirror92** · 10-25-2010 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by Puffin

They're not really a dream inside a dream, but a dream that ends and another one begins. They're called "false awakenings", as already mentioned. Anything can happen in dreams; lots of times after attempting (and failing) WILDs, I enter sleep paralysis within a dream.

thanks, but i already knew it was a false awakening when i posted this. i was asking for similar stories, or an answer to my issue of my dream body being paralyzed

**agraz7777** · 10-25-2010 09:21 AM

Inception! Just kidding. But, sometimes my mind will become active before my body wakes up and I get the 'paralyzed' sensation. This sensation is also mentioned by people who claim to have been abducted by aliens... But I believe that they're still within the dream, barely waking out of it. These people remember the sensation of being paralyzed and start claiming that aliens did it.

Silly false awakenings.

ezinearticles.com/?Alien-Abduction-Or-Sleep-Paralysis?&id=4201744

**moongrass** · 10-25-2010 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Skicanoe

Hi Moongrass, guess your having trouble sleeping this early morning too. Wonder if these posts will really be there when we check again! I THINK I'm awake!

haha, I did many RCs to makes sure but I have always thought that might happen anyways... but you are exactly right...

**inthemirror92** · 10-26-2010 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by agraz7777

Inception! Just kidding. But, sometimes my mind will become active before my body wakes up and I get the 'paralyzed' sensation. This sensation is also mentioned by people who claim to have been abducted by aliens... But I believe that they're still within the dream, barely waking out of it. These people remember the sensation of being paralyzed and start claiming that aliens did it.

Silly false awakenings.

ezinearticles.com/?Alien-Abduction-Or-Sleep-Paralysis?&id=4201744

maybe it could have been aliens, ET's, etc. i am obsessed with other intelligent life besides homo-sapiens, i look at the stars everynight. maybe, just maybe =p

**Grigorios** · 10-29-2010 05:49 PM

It happened to me more than once. For instance once I had a dream then I dreamt that I woke up and was writing the dream in my DJ; another time I had a sort of OBE and wasn't sure that it was really an OBE, then I dreamt of waking up and discussing the thing with my partner.