Gotta love this one.

[philby]

When I was 6 or 7 years old, I lived with my grandparents. I had a dream, (only once) that my grandfather put me in a room with only a cot. At that time, I went to sleep on the cot. I am dreaming this mind you. When I fell asleep on the cot, I had another dream that I was in my mothers room asleep on HER bed. I heard a voice. Phillip (very loudly) "wake up" Its time to go to school" It was my grandfather So, I woke up. I was on my mothers bed. (Still a dream) Again, I heard a voice telling me it was time to get up for school. Unfortionately I awakened on the cot. As I was getting up, I heard the voice again. Phillip, time for school,once again my grandfathers voice. This time I actually woke up in the origial bed that I was sleeping in. My gradfather said, "You are really hard to wake up Phillip" As I refect, my thought is, I guess so, since I had to be awakened 3 times. BTW, In this dream, I had 3 seperate dreams. ALL DIFFERENT. I think I am awake now. I think. Phil

[Dreamcaster]

When I was 6 or 7 years old, I lived with my grandparents. I had a dream, (only once) that my grandfather put me in a room with only a cot. At that time, I went to sleep on the cot. I am dreaming this mind you. When I fell asleep on the cot, I had another dream that I was in my mothers room asleep on HER bed. I heard a voice. Phillip (very loudly) "wake up" Its time to go to school" It was my grandfather So, I woke up. I was on my mothers bed. (Still a dream) Again, I heard a voice telling me it was time to get up for school. Unfortionately I awakened on the cot. As I was getting up, I heard the voice again. Phillip, time for school,once again my grandfathers voice. This time I actually woke up in the origial bed that I was sleeping in. My gradfather said, "You are really hard to wake up Phillip" As I refect, my thought is, I guess so, since I had to be awakened 3 times. BTW, In this dream, I had 3 seperate dreams. ALL DIFFERENT. I think I am awake now. I think. Phil I think you already know what the dream means; or at least you have an idea of what you think the dream means. You seem to point it out at the end of your post, when you say, "I think I am awake now." It makes me think of the Buddhist concept that reality is just an illusion. It's possible that your dream is trying to teach you this concept. I've had a few dreams where it seems my dream is trying to teach me some principle of higher thinking. The fact that the dream is trying to tech you something may be reflected by the fact that we hear the reoccurring message "Time to go to school." Perhaps the dream is telling you to wake up and see beyond the veil created by the illusion of reality. Another possibility is that the dream is telling you to be more vigilant. The word vigil means 'to wake'. This idea is probably very common. You see it illustrated in alot of stories. For example, in the movie the Matrix we see a scenario similar to your dream at the beginning of the first movie.

[Mini Man56]

I think the reocurring phrase "Time to go to school" was just him hearing his actual grandfather trying to wake him up.

[Dreamcaster]

I think the reocurring phrase "Time to go to school" was just him hearing his actual grandfather trying to wake him up. That's probably true, but I tend to believe that if a dream takes the time to weave a message into a story it probably means that the dream has an underlying message it's trying to convey. The dream intergrated the real life occurence to help convey whatever message it was trying to project.