Lucid of only the Dream Within the Dream

[Bantam]

An interesting kind of format to this dream I had the other night. Well it was to me anyway. Maybe others have experienced something not too dissimilar. I dreamt that I was in a Dream Share programme with a load of friends and we were dreaming that we’d gone on holiday somewhere. Now I was fully aware within this dream that I was dreaming. Me and the friends I was with were trying to figure out the cost of the holiday, who’d spent money, who’d borrowed money from who, because we knew spending money in the dream would debit our bank accounts in real life. We all “awoke” from this dream (keep in mind I’m still dreaming at this point). And much like in real life, we’re all trying to recall the dream we’d all shared, with a bit of difficulty. We knew we’d dreamt we’d been on holiday, but couldn’t figure out the cost of it, and who owed who money etc. Then i woke up in real life. Not a particularly fascinating theme to the dream, I know. But although I’ve had many false awakenings in the past (looking at my alarm clock, realising I’m late for work, jump out of bed, and then wake up in real life), this was the first time I’d ever dreamt of something, knew I was dreaming, but only in the dream state did I know I was dreaming. Once I’d awoke from the 2nd level of dreaming, if you will (i know that’s a bit Inceptiony), I presumed that was reality, when in fact it was the first level of the dream. Obviously I’m not going to try and chalk this up on the old LD Count, as rather than being lucid in the dream, I was merely dreaming of being lucid. Yet still a weird 2nd level Lucid-like dream is certainly a first for me. Anyone else experienced anything like that?

[Toch]

I had a really strange experience last night that was almost exactly the opposite of what you described. Basically, I was part of a team trying to perform Inception on someone, and so I was fully aware that I was "dreaming," and was even able to exercise control over the environment as I would in a normal lucid dream (visualizing something into existence, reaching through solid objects, etc.). But since we had a job to do, my focus was to finish that job and then wake myself up out of the dream as soon as possible. I expected to awaken on a train with my accomplices; however, I woke up alone in my real bed. You might call it a "reverse false-awakening."

[Burke]

I've had something just like that happen, only i couldn't remember the entire dream. Bascially I had just awoken from this super-awesome LD that I had, and I just had to be sure that I wrote it down. So, I immediately reached over to my night stand, grabbed my DJ and turned on the light. I wrote down tons of details about the dream, and must've filled 3 pages. But then, when I woke up for real, I could remember everything in the non-lucid dream, even what my notebook looked like, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what I wrote down. Still today I don't know what it was about, and it gets me annoyed just thinking about it