Dream Within A Dream

**Janeen** · 01-09-2007 05:11 PM

First, hi! I'm new to the board and basically new to discussing my dreams with anyone other than my family.

I've been experiencing dreams within dreams, or at least that's what I called them, for the last three or so years. I finally decided to look them up on the net to see if anyone else had ever had these types of dreams. I couldn't find anything using 'dream within a dream' as a search but, it led me to this forum where I found the term False Awakenings. My most recent dream led me to the quest.

A small amount of background:

I'm 56 years old.
My mother (who I was very close to) died in 1990 at the age of 62.

Okay - the dream.

I found myself standing in a kitchen, that I was unfamilar with, watching my mother thinking, "They lied to me! She's not dead! This is too real to be a dream so she must really be alive!" I was so happy. (Since 1990 I've seen her in my dreams but, the difference has always been that I knew she was dead.) So anyway mom went over to this table and sat down to drink her coffee and smoke a cigarette (she drank a lot of coffee). (Note: She smoked herself to death.)

I went over to her and told her that the year was now 1987 (mind you I just had this dream a couple of nights ago) and if she didn't quit smoking NOW, that she would be dead in three years! As soon as I told her this I started crying as if my heart were broken.

So, I 'woke up' and the next thing I know I'm standing with my daughter (born in 1970) and we're watching some sort of singing and dancing audition on stage (my daughter is a dance instructor). When the audition starts to get a little boring, I turn to my daughter and start telling her about my dream. I tell her it was so real, just like me and you standing here talking to each other. (Mind you I'm still dreaming at this point.)

So, as I'm telling her about the dream as I get to the part about telling my mom that she is going to die if she doesn't quit smoking, I'm right back in the previous dream repeting to my mom that it's 1987 and if she doesn't quit smoking NOW, "You're going to ............." At this point my chest is hurting and my throat closes off to the point that I can no longer speak and I really wake up with my chest still hurting.

Sorry, so long but just needed to get that out. Is this a common occurance? The FA I mean? I had never heard of this before I started doing it.

**Keeper** · 01-09-2007 05:20 PM

'hola!

to the Forum

na, it wasn't long (p.s. Cool font

)

I think a false awakaning is mostly when you wake up in bed, but otherwise, I think what you had was one. Some people have FA's regulerally, but I cant say myself

see you around, and enjoy your stay

**Janeen** · 01-09-2007 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Keeper

'hola!

to the Forum

na, it wasn't long (p.s. Cool font

)

I think a false awakaning is mostly when you wake up in bed, but otherwise, I think what you had was one. Some people have FA's regulerally, but I cant say myself

see you around, and enjoy your stay

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Thanks for the 'holla'!

Well, I have had the 'awakenings' in bed before, but now I think I just skip through that part (I'm a very impatient person, lol.).

The weirdest and scariest FA I had was actually a dream within a dream within a dream. I can't remember all the details (I really need to start keeping a journal&#33

but, the innermost dream was a nightmare where I was so scared my throat closed up so much that I could not breath, so I fought to 'wake up'. I did 'wake up' in bed and was so relieved to be able to breath! Then a different nightmare began and I was scared but not to the point of not being able to breath. Then I really woke up.

I was just wondering how far down into the dream a person could go? I told my husband I thought maybe I had gone so far into the dream that my involuntary body functions stopped momentarily. Then I 'woke up' to the dream state where I could breath again but I was still asleep and then finally the last dream went away and I really woke up.

I hope I didn't lose anyone on that, ha-ha.

**stranger** · 01-09-2007 09:06 PM

Welcome to the forum!
This is my first welcome message, I suppose I'm veteran enough to do it now

I remember one of those 'dream within a dream' experiences that I had many years ago, never forgot it because it was so weird. I was in dream A and fell asleep in the dream. So I appeared in dream B. And again dreamt that I fell asleep and dream C appeared. Wasn´t this weird enough that when I woke up from dream C I was back in dream B and later did it again so I had a FA in dream A (it was a logical sequence after all&#33

Eventually I woke up and found myself in my bed like this ->

I promise I hadn´t smoked anything

Originally Posted by Keeper

'hola!

to the Forum

[/b]

Keeper, I'm proud of your Spanish!

lol ( <- thanks again for solving the 'lol' mystery for me&#33

**Keeper** · 01-09-2007 09:07 PM

thanks. its the only word in that langauge I know

**Pegasis** · 09-02-2007 10:53 AM

I have had a few of them.

**Pegasis** · 09-23-2007 10:01 PM

I had a few dreams where in the dream I was in bed dreaming and I awoke in the dream. Does the Dream within a Dream have a special name?. When i had my first dream within a dream I was amazed when I actually woke up. On a few occasions I had a dream within a dream within a dream.

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