I just had a terrifically bizarre dream experience. The only thing that lead me to post here was that I could not find a similar dream account online. I'm wondering if anyone has encountered similar.
I believe what I experienced was a loop dream, but in a nightmarish surrounding. However all other loop dreams I've read about seem connected with paralysis. Maybe I'm wrong.
In this dream environment, I was wandering a typically wildly morphed version of my current reality. I live in a residential warehouse community, so I'm surrounded by interesting converted warehouses. The dream setting was night time. I explored my environment, and became aware it was descending into nightmare. My dream recall is vague but I remember a state of anxiety and recurring bad omens.
What made it different was that I was able to wake up, but would find myself back at square one. Not my bedroom, it was actually an enormously larger and decayed version of a neighbouring warehouse, but always in the same spot. I would begin my exploration, and soon find that I was walking the same route once again, eventually leading to new locations and situations within the environment, all with negative outcomes.
I remember thinking 'screw this' and waking myself up, only to find myself back at square one. After countless loops, I began to confront the negative omens, be they people, sights or sounds. I would wake and pray that I hadn't fallen back into the loop, but within minutes would be exploring new ways of confronting or attempting to ignore the omens. It became very neurotic and panicked, like I was stuck in a cruel game.
Sometimes I would be able to get quite far before what felt like lingering evil prevailed. I'd see fnds, their faces hard to make out, I'd come across new rooms, and would never feel physically restrained or disabled.
Every attempt to wake would reset the dream, with a new and increasingly desperate resolve to overcome the nagging, returning omens. The constant cycling became very maddening. Sometimes I'd feel like I was 'winning', before realising the dream had merely allowed me to think that momentarily, plunging me back on to the same old trail and geographical sequence of omens (can't recall specifics here) so as to madden me further, like a cat toys with it's prey.
When I finally real - life awoke, I felt instantly that I'd had the dream many times before, like a sense of deja vu, but soon realised I hadn't. I was so perplexed by this quickly deteriorating recollection of being trapped in a dream within a dream that I took to Google, but only found lucid experiment reports and dreams of repeatedly attempting to get up from the same bed. Or multiple false awakenings, but never back to the start of the same environment.
Worth noting is that I was physically assaulted with a weapon quite badly two days ago while out with some friends, and that I'm in a high stress period. I'm sure there's a post traumatic factor here, though I didn't confront anything directly related.
I'd be very curious to hear if anyone has experienced this type of loop dream! How strange and awesome our human minds can be. Thanks for reading!
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