Originally Posted by
iadr
Do you listen to anything like music when you sleep at night? If so, this part of your dream could have been caused by the sounds you are listening to getting into your dreams.
No matter how hard you try to turn the volume down, the sound is still there because of the sound you are actually hearing, which causes the sound to keep being turned back up in your dream.
This is sort of like when a person dreams that have to go to the bathroom, but no matter how much they go in their dream, they still have to go, because they still actually do have to go physically, since using the bathroom in their dream does not get rid of what they are feeling physically.
If you don't listen to anything at night while you sleep, and this dream manufactured all of these things on its own, then it might be a warning from your subconscious to keep certain things in check to make sure they don't get out of control.
Either that, or else your subconscious mind was just trying really hard to give you a lot of signs that you were dreaming to help you become lucid, which it sounds like almost worked.