Thread: Multiple Realities

I am curious to know if anyone has had experiences with multiple levels of reality while dreaming?

I had what felt like the longest dream ever the other morning. I fell asleep for around twenty minutes, but I felt like I was gone for a few months. In the dream there were three levels of reality. It is difficult to explain but in the second level I was searching for my mom, expect every time I tried to find her something would stop me (weapons, rodents..). Eventually I found her but I was convinced it wasn't really "her", just someone who looked like her. Then I go on to switch (like false awakening) to reality one where I am with my mom, and its still not her. She keeps trying to tell me its really her but I know it isn't. I eventually figure out that she is making us switch realities. I get really confused about which reality is real (switched nine times). I know some part of it is a dream. I try sending e-mails before I switch, to see if they "go through" to the other level. In the end I become fully lucid and have a false awakening (reality three ). I keep telling everyone I'm so glad to have woken up. Every time something makes me realize I am still dreaming. Had five false awakenings in this third reality. I keep trying my technique for waking up but it doesn't work. When I stop switching and stay in #3, I just fly around knowing eventually my alarm will go off.

In and out of lucidity the whole time, felt like I was gone for months. I mean I had time to make a boyfriend, I had to walk to his house to explain what was going on every time I switched. I ate meals, went to sleep.. Anyone ever have a similar experience?

holy crap that sounds crazy

If you don't mind rephrasing all that? I'm having a hard time keeping up. I don't think its you so much as it is me though.

thats amazing!!! Maybe its your sense of time being heavily altered by the dreamstate

Originally Posted by Tripoli

If you don't mind rephrasing all that? I'm having a hard time keeping up. I don't think its you so much as it is me though.

I'm not sure how to rephrase without writing a novel, lol! I tried to keep it as short as possible but I know it's confusing. There's a lot I left out.

Originally Posted by wootsmitty

thats amazing!!! Maybe its your sense of time being heavily altered by the dreamstate

It is the strangest feeling waking up and feeling like you've been gone for a few months. I'm still thinking about it after several days have passed. I have had dreams that have felt long, but nothing like this.

EDIT: I posted this in my dream journal and it was nothing short of a novel.