Lucid dream inside a dream?

**LemonPartiez** · 10-09-2013 01:58 PM

Okay, so last night I was in a regular dream. I was in my front yard hanging out not aware that I was dreaming. Somebody (a friend) came outside with me and told me this cool new trick to induce a lucid dream. It was something really retarded like lie on your back and stick your feet in the air or something silly like that. Next thing I know, I am in the same place (front yard) but I am aware that I am dreaming. I tried to fly off the ground but by legs kind of collapsed as I tried. I tried again and I was successful. I landed back down and tried to grow myself to be super sized. Before I knew it was growing and could see over the top of my roof and the other houses. It ended after this and I woke back up in to my normal dream. I thought I was back in reality and was thinking how cool it was to find such and easy induction technique. I then woke up to reality and have been thinking about this nearly all day.

If anyone has had a similar experience or know that this is a known thing, please let me know below.

Cheers,

**realdealmagic** · 10-09-2013 02:39 PM

Sounds like a regular DILD to me. You fully believed that you would become lucid from this "method" within your dream, so you did so! Remember that dreams work solely off of your expectations. If you expect something to happen then it will.

It may have felt like another dream, but I think that it was just a change of scene (even though your scene didn't even change) which then became a False Awakening. Nothing too special going on here, except congratulations on your lucid!

**TranquilityTrip** · 10-10-2013 02:09 AM

Sounds like you had a combination of a a DILD and a false-awakening. A DILD is a Dream Induced Lucid Dream, basically a dream in which you became lucid, and a false-awakening is a dream in which you "wake up" and find yourself still in a dream. In this case you "woke up" and lost lucidity during the transition. To be more clear, false-awakenings are simply dream-shifts in which you find yourself in another place and attribute it to waking up. Usually people think they "woke up" because the dream shifted to the place where they remember going to sleep in real life but this isn't always the case. Either way, false-awakenings can be quite convincing and sometimes it's almost impossible to tell whether or not you are actually awake because the dream is so real and so consistent.

Good job on your lucid dream btw

**vasiona** · 10-12-2013 06:51 PM

This happens to me, too; most of my recent lucid dreams have ended with a false awakening (and it sounds as if this is what happened to you, following a DILD as the others said.) What I'm trying to work on at the moment is getting more used to doing reality checks so that I can realise I'm dreaming again next time I "wake up" from a lucid dream - a lucid dream within a dream is one thing, but imagine having a lucid dream within a lucid dream

Congrats on your lucid dream - and managing to make yourself super-sized, which sounds pretty interesting.