Quote Originally Posted by Rodrodrod View Post
I can understand where you are coming from, where our dreaming selves are not starting their own dreaming process, but it doesn't always feel like it's the same dream, and what makes the most sense to me at least is that i entered another dream.
Yes, of course it doesn't feel like the same dream, or that you've entered another dream, or else this thread would not have been started, I think. But there are a lot of things happening in dreams that are not what they seem. For example, we are not really flying when we fly, or teleporting, or having lunch on the moon when we dream, but it sure feels that way! Why must the sensation of dreaming within a dream indicate it is actually, physically happening when we easily dismiss the reality of pretty much everything else that's going on? [Side Note: yes, there are those who might think that all these things are real, or portend something real, but this is not the Beyond Dreaming forum, so I assume we're not going there this time.]

For that to happen I think there'd be more than one dream occurring at any one time like so:

http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...i-layered.html

This makes sense to me in terms of fast dream transition and transitions to different storylines where I have some additional knowledge that I did not have in the previous dream.
I found a lot of sense in Flowofmysoul's concept, and certainly can see a case for several dreams (or at least the stuff of them) spooling in your unconscious while you are within your current dream, and maybe catching a glimpse of the dream bullpen during transitions from one to the other. That happens to me often -- I had a session just the other day that seemed like the collision of five different dreams. However, I do not think Flowofmysoul was talking about dreams within dreams at all (I hope he'll correct me if I got that wrong). I could see someone who comes across those other dreams thinking that they were dreaming them from within their last DC self, but just assuming that's what happened doesn't make it so.

Here's one last possibly relevant thought: if you lay your dream body down to "sleep," of course you are going to enter a new dream thinking you are having a dream within a dream. This is, after all, exactly what you intended to feel when you lay down; why would your dreaming mind give you something that didn't match your expectations?