Dream within a Dream?

[splasherTV]

Okay, so I try a few techniques to WILD before I go to sleep, then I remember that it works best if I wake up in the middle of the night. So I got sleep repeating to myself "100, I will have a lucid dream, 99, I will have a lucid dream, 98, I will have a lucid dream..." and so on. Next thing I know I'm dreaming, very vaguely but lucid, the visions are fuzzy but I know what's going on. I'm remember some dream techniques and I can't get it to be more clear, my dream self starts yelling "increase lucidity!" because it was something I read. I keep coming in and out of my dream, to find that I wake up eventually. I"m sitting there and my dad is home and he comes in and talks to me, but I'm not lucid. I don't know anything I'm just floating around with what's happening, I think it's real. I wake up from that again. After reflecting I realize I had a dream within a dream, the deeper dream was lucid, and the second dream wasn't. How is that possible?

[MadMonkey]

It's not really a dream within a dream, its called a false awakening. You dreampt that you woke up and lost lucidity. It's actually quite common, that's why its good to do reality checks every time you wake up so that when you get a false awakening you will become lucid.

[Hawlery]

I had about the same experience a couple days ago. In the dream I was driving a car, but was sleepy. So I fell asleep and started dreaming. In that dream I knew I was dreaming and realized that I was driving a car in "real" life, and had to wake myself up from that dream. So I woke myself up and woke up in the other dream again (driving a car). I don't think I was lucid at any moment though, maybe my dream self was .

[TheModernNinja]

Okay, so I try a few techniques to WILD before I go to sleep, then I remember that it works best if I wake up in the middle of the night. So I got sleep repeating to myself "100, I will have a lucid dream, 99, I will have a lucid dream, 98, I will have a lucid dream..." and so on. Next thing I know I'm dreaming, very vaguely but lucid, the visions are fuzzy but I know what's going on. I'm remember some dream techniques and I can't get it to be more clear, my dream self starts yelling "increase lucidity!" because it was something I read. I keep coming in and out of my dream, to find that I wake up eventually. I"m sitting there and my dad is home and he comes in and talks to me, but I'm not lucid. I don't know anything I'm just floating around with what's happening, I think it's real. I wake up from that again. After reflecting I realize I had a dream within a dream, the deeper dream was lucid, and the second dream wasn't. How is that possible? Yes , MadMonkey was right. Don't forget that the most important thing isn't waking up at night, it's waking up in your REM period. Read more about it in the WBTB tutorial: WBTB Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[madvorak]

It is very usual to lose lucidity after a FA (it happens to me in a lot of LDs). Some people perform WILD in their dream and then become lucid . It isn't a dream about a lucid dream, it is a lucid dream itself. Unfortunately, there are no layers in dreams .

[splasherTV]

Ohhh okay thanks guys

[TheModernNinja]

It is very usual to lose lucidity after a FA (it happens to me in a lot of LDs). Some people perform WILD in their dream and then become lucid . It isn't a dream about a lucid dream, it is a lucid dream itself. Unfortunately, there are no layers in dreams . When you say "There are no layers in dreams, what are you backing up on?" There have been cases where people have performed WILD in their dreams then performed it again, then had two "FAs" and then woke up in RL. So a dream within a dream might be possible, although we would regard waking up from a "layer" and FA. I hope that made sense, TMN

[Dreamprofesser]

Dreams within dreams, are usually just a chain of false awakenings. But they are still great to have, if you can become lucid.

[Mosake]

Interesting that I came across this. This happened to me earlier today when I attempted my WBTB. I had around 4 lucid dreams one after another in which I woke up from each one only to be in another dream completely lucid. The whole series of dreams lasted for what felt to be about an hour in total when I was dreaming, remember every moment of it and it was great! Probably the most success I've had with lucid dreaming thus far

[TheModernNinja]

Dreams within dreams, are usually just a chain of false awakenings. But they are still great to have, if you can become lucid. Yes, but how do you KNOW that its a chain? How can you KNOW that its not layered?