A Dream Withing a Dream?

**Marrelito** · 06-22-2011 02:30 PM

I just realized when i woke up, that i might had a dream within a dream, i don't know if it was two separate dreams as we usually have more then one dream when we are asleep.

But this one was connected to the other dream somehow. I was dreaming that i got a job offer and i accepted it from a women in some meeting that i was attending, my work started 14:00 pm the next day. I took a train to some random station and slept there. The next day my buddy calls me and we were suppose to hang out at his place, he lived in a student house with a bunch of other students, i said to him that we could hang out a bit before i go to work. Walking to his place and meeting him halfway i suddenly stopped for a while and thought work? no, it must be a dream i said to him. Because i could still remember the dream from the meeting.

realizing i dreamed in a dream telling myself i was dreaming in a dream.

I woke up with a shock telling myself what the fuck happened?

**A_Citrus** · 06-22-2011 02:43 PM

Technically, what you had was not a dream within a dream. When you appear to either go to sleep or wake up within a dream, all that's happening is that you're transitioning from one part of the dream to the next part of the dream. It doesn't work in the way that Inception would suggest; that is, dreams don't work in layers, they just transition from one stage to the next. It sounds like you got lucid though, so congratulations!

ShockWave.

**Puffin** · 06-23-2011 01:00 AM

I've had a lot of dreams where I'd fall asleep and wake up into a new dream (I've even WILDed and DEILDed in dreams before!)

No matter how much it looks like you've entered a dream inside the previous dream, it's really a brand new one. They can sometimes really look like they're inside the last dream, though.