Thread: A dream within a dream

Oh man! I love talking about all this stuff.

Yes I have the feeling this has happened several times, but only once that I can actually remember for sure. I dreamt I was in class listening to the professor. I got bored and fell asleep at my desk. Then I dreamt I was in class listening to the professor and he called me up to the board to do a long division problem. When I got to the board, I realized I couldn't see the numbers. They were swimming around and didn't make sense. So I realized I was dreaming. This woke me up, and I was back in my desk sitting in class. People were laughing at me for falling asleep and the guy next to me told me I'd snored. I was really embarassed. But of course I was still dreaming but didn't know it.

Haha, the night I first made an effort to keep a dream journal, this happened to me. It was actually pretty entertaining when I really woke up and realized what happened.

It was a few nights after I moved into my dorm room at school, so sleeping wasn't completely in routine. I had a dream in which I was in a version of my college campus with some friends, and then I woke up in my bedroom from home. Waking up, I knew I wanted to write the dream down, but I couldn't find my journal, so I grabbed a loose-leaf piece of paper and wrote down some points from the dream, and fell back asleep to have another dream. That dream was an abstract one which I never remembered, because I woke up later in my dorm room and it all hit me that I never really wrote down the first dream. As I was scrambling to actually write it all down, the third dream began fading. It was very confusing at the time, but looking back now it was pretty funny.

Yeah I had something very similar to this a couple weeks ago. I dreamt I was riding on a school bus and I laid back and fell asleep. I was now driving my truck for a while then I woke up back on the bus. There really wasn't anything more to the dream than that but when I woke up for real I was like "damn that was kind of cool"

That's odd that that can happen. Is it possible to lucid within a dream of a dream?

Originally Posted by juvenilepunk

That's odd that that can happen. Is it possible to lucid within a dream of a dream?

I'd assume so, but once attaining lucidity, you'd hence realize it was all one dream.

Yes, I think I have had one like this but it may have been up to 2 years ago. So I'm not sure.

I achieved lucidity in a dream within a dream last Monday, or at least I think it was a dream within a dream.

In dream level one I was in a large mansion and being pursued by all sorts of aliens/zombies/monsters. I hid from them and crashed on a random bed in some random room. I entered a lower dream level and immediately knew that I was in a dream (I however did know that i was in a dream within a dream). I started flying over forests and cities. I decided to call my grandpa from this dream (while my grandpa was in dream level one). I don't know how I did this (maybe I thought I was "sleep phone-talking"). I had a coherent conversation with him for a bit but then I started speaking gibberish against my own will. I woke up from this dream into dream level one, wrote the dream down in my dream journal, approached my grandpa and asked him if I really did talk to him while I was dreaming. He said that I did talk to him but he couldn't understand anything I was saying to him. I laughed at this and then woke up (into the real world this time). very very strange.

Or of course it may have been the case that the large mansion and the flying/talking on the phone was all one dream (in which I became lucid in the middle of), and then I had a false awakening.

interesting stuff, isn't it?

Originally Posted by epdawg62

I achieved lucidity in a dream within a dream last Monday, or at least I think it was a dream within a dream.

In dream level one I was in a large mansion and being pursued by all sorts of aliens/zombies/monsters. I hid from them and crashed on a random bed in some random room. I entered a lower dream level and immediately knew that I was in a dream (I however did know that i was in a dream within a dream). I started flying over forests and cities. I decided to call my grandpa from this dream (while my grandpa was in dream level one). I don't know how I did this (maybe I thought I was "sleep phone-talking"). I had a coherent conversation with him for a bit but then I started speaking gibberish against my own will. I woke up from this dream into dream level one, wrote the dream down in my dream journal, approached my grandpa and asked him if I really did talk to him while I was dreaming. He said that I did talk to him but he couldn't understand anything I was saying to him. I laughed at this and then woke up (into the real world this time). very very strange.

Or of course it may have been the case that the large mansion and the flying/talking on the phone was all one dream (in which I became lucid in the middle of), and then I had a false awakening.

interesting stuff, isn't it?

That's incredibly interesting, you must be a very skilled dreamer to pull that off.

That's incredibly interesting, you must be a very skilled dreamer to pull that off.

Heh... I'm not actually. I've only been doing this for about 2 months. This dream took me completely by surprise.