Thread: I lived Inception (Multi level lucid dream)

I dreamed I was in Syria, climbing a small mountain or hill with another person. He told me when we reached the top of the ridge we could look over into China. I became lucid at that point when I realized it the two countries don't touch each other. I said, "ahhh shit, this is a dream. Awesome, I am lucid now". Also, the landscape seemed very surreal and unlike Syria as I would imagine it, more like some sci-fi movie, which I think also contributed to my becoming lucid. I remained lucid in this dream for what seemed to be a long while and it was very stable for some period. I made it my purpose to find other dream characters and confront them regarding the fact that they were not real, but simply dream characters in my dream. Interestingly, each time I approached a person with this aim, they would turn and walk away. The last person I approached did not turn away, but his facial features faded away to a blur and then he disappeared.

The dream became unstable and I awoke shortly thereafter in our guest bedroom, remembering that I had gotten out of bed in the master bedroom and moved there to get away from my wife who was tossing and turning during the night. Later, I awoke in the bed in our master bedroom and only then realized that the awakening in the guest bedroom and my having moved there was merely a dream, one in which I was never lucid, but believed to be real waking reality, that is until I eventually awoke in my own bed.

This is the first time I have had this kind of dream experience that I can recall. A lucid dream that had all the appearance and perception of being a dream within another dream. I can see why the original poster thought the same thing. I did as well. But it seems others with experience are explaining this as a misunderstanding of what actually took place. How do we know it is not a dream within a dream, as in "Inception"? I'm curious to better understand this. It has had me distracted all day long.

I have practiced techniques to induce lucid dreaming on and off for over a decade, after reading LaBerge's book. I wouldn't count myself as an avid, experienced lucid dreamer, but more as a long term novice. However, after becoming re-interested in the subject/experience during the last few months I have had more lucid dreams than I did during the entire previous ten years.