Is that really a false awakening? Upon waking in the dream I continued the storyline and kept the characters from the previous scenes, only in a different setting. Or are all dreams within dreams considered false awakenings?


I've gone the other way, gone into a dream within a dream. Two weeks ago I found myself revisiting a dream in my sleep. I fell asleep in my dream and re-dreamed the exact same dream I had 2-3 years ago. Only this time I was able to pause the action of the dream, recant what was about to happen each step of the way, recall my feelings and basically narrate what I was doing as I re-lived the dream, detail for detail again several years later. I died in the original dream and relived the same experience again this time around, only as I was dreaming within the dream I chose to awaken the 2nd time around upon my death (the first time I continued). This time all dreams ended as I chose to end the dream within the dream.