Lucid dream within a dream.

[keiferr]

So, I tried to WILD last night and had an odd experience. The last few days I've been obsessed with getting a successful WILD so naturally my dream revolved around that. I'll spare the details but I dreamed of me practicing the WILD techniques and then I slipped into a lucid dream, within the dream. What I saw is sort of hard to describe, I first saw people walking on a street and then I willed my mind to see humanity as a whole to try to find some hidden understanding, and I saw a large network of people, connected to each other in different ways. The whole vision was in a weird sort of gray scale though and it was very staticy. It was like looking at the world in a weird reflection. Now, explanations for this are plenty. The skeptical one would be that the vision is just what my mind thinks a lucid dream looks like. But, I've had lucid dreams before, so I think that disproves that theory. Also, I've never thought about having a lucid within a dream, so I couldn't project possibilities of it. So the explanation I've come up with, and might be a tad too optimistic, is that I experienced another layer of lucid dreaming. Any thoughts?

[Abra]

A dream within a dream creates the illusion of "layers" of dream, but really it's the same dream. When people say they false awaken in another dream, they're just dreaming they wake up. Your static-clouded visuals can indeed be what your mind, in that specific dream, thought a lucid dream looks like (your mind can pick and choose what past experiences with dreams it remembers). Probably won't happen in a subsequent lucid, unless you get hung up on the idea. Finding hidden understanding in your first lucid? Sounds tricky. I'd devote your first few lucids to stabilization and dream quality, and then move on to tricky stuff. But that's just me~

[keiferr]

That's a really good point about devoting my first few lucids towards stabilization. Maybe I'm bit over zealous when it comes to the topic of what you can lucid dream about.