A lot of the times I feel like I dream all night and they are always very vivid. If not awoken by an alarm I could sleep and dream all day.The last time I had a dream that was 4-5 layers deep was a couple of months ago and it was a very strange experience. It seemed like the dream was never ending and I felt very weird when I woke up. I have had dreams like the cycle that you described more often than dreams made up of 4-5 layers. Are yours usually nightmares like you described? Do you feel pain and does the emotion you feel carry over when you awaken? Do you ever go back to sleep knowing that you are going back into the same dream?

I actually went and saw a sleep doctor b/c I have chronic fatigue and I thought it was b/c I was dreaming so much, but they don't really have a good diagnosis for me. They are treating me as a narcoleptic, but I don't have the key narcoleptic symptom which is falling into REM immediately. Apparently, according to my sleep study, I dream when I'm not in REM, my doctors refer to it as hallucinating which makes me almost feel a little crazy.