Quote Originally Posted by balinup13 View Post
The dream began for a while where I was getting ready to go to a massive mansion for a dance or something. Somewhere along the lines I ended up in Mexico trying to hide from the cops. I was with some friends and I somehow just knew that the cops would be showing up soon and so I tried to hide behind a sand dune but they found us and surrounded us. They then told us that there was no other way to avoid getting in trouble unless we walked across a very small and sketchy bridge that had some type of acid below it. Somehow the idea just came to me that this was all very unprofessional and that the police would never do this type of thing. So I am right by the bridge and I look below me and everything just magically clicked. I put it together. I took a huge risk and just jumped from the top of the bridge into the acid and screamed I am dreaming. At that moment I started to fly above the acid and felt completely exhilarated. This is where it starts to get VERY WEIRD. After i flew above the acid I woke up...or so I thought. I felt myself like wake up to a new dream in which I was watching a 90's music video take place. I knew I was still lucid somehow and noticed that the dream was very blurry. So I told myself that I would close my eyes and then when I opened them it would all be clear. When i opened them it was much clearer but I felt as if I didn't have the kind of control as at that one moment flying over the acid. After this, that dream ended and I woke up in yet another dream. I wasn't lucid anymore though, and interestingly I woke up feeling like I had actually woken up from my very first dream of being at the mansion dance. I was convinced that that was reality until after I woke up from all of this confused as hell.

Sorry for the long post but this was absolutely insane..a breakthrough for me for sure. Reminded me of inception. Did I actually have a lucid dream?? or did I just dream about having a lucid dream? There were 3 different dreams in one or something? I am pretty sure I had one because I thought at one point I can't wait to tell my girlfriend about having a lucid dream when I woke up. Anyways, let me know what you think!
Wow, man, awesome, awesome dream! Yes, absolutely, this was a lucid dream. And from the sound of it a very cool one! Even during a lucid dream you'll experience these sorts of transitions. I'd normally say that the trick is to hang through them without losing lucidity, but you did that just fine at the part with the 90s music video. It's the false awakening that got you, but that's normal. More practice and experience will help there. And let's be honest, they all fool us sometimes.

Anyway, yeah the dream within a dream thing is totally real and has happened to me a few times as well. I have actually performed a "WILD" from within a NLD, gone into a lucid dream, and then had a false awakening back into the original dream, now non-lucid again. Here's the DJ entry where this happened to me, although your dream was actually much cooler! But to show that you're not alone: Fooled - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Keep up the great work, man!