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dreams inside of dreams

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bsvalley

bsvalley

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Has anyone ever had a dream inside of a dream? I have had that happen only once and I hear that it's pretty rare. Just curious.
 
If you are talking about having a dream where you are telling people in your dream about your previous dream then yes. I have had this happen several times. I aways find it humorous.
 
I've dreamed that I awoke from a dream and got up. Only to realize I was still in a dream. Sometimes I have very lucid dreams where I question whether I'm awake or dreaming. One trick I've found is to find something to read, or really fix attention on an object and study the details. If it's a dream, small details will not maintain continuity. It will be very difficult to read the same sentence twice.
 
bsvalley said:
Has anyone ever had a dream inside of a dream? I have had that happen only once and I hear that it's pretty rare. Just curious.
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I had many of these when I was younger. I had them layered as deep as four levels - you wake up three times inside of a dream.

For me, I only experienced these and other sorts of sleeping phenomena when I was a younger man, maybe from 16-25. After 25, mine pretty much stopped, but I had some WEIRD episodes while it was happening.

I'm pretty sure I made a connection between these episodes and an odd and annoying thing that would happen to me when I think I was mentally tired, but physically awake. I would lay down and sort of hear a dull THUNK! and snap out of falling asleep way too quickly - it was almost like I was FALLING into sleep off of a cliff. Weird and hard to explain. But, whenever I felt that, I would also get things like layered dreams, etc.
 
I've had dreams within dreams. 2 weeks ago I had a new dream experience: a dream that woke me up and kept going!

It was mundane; I'll just give you the fun part. At the end, I was sneaking away from these leopards when one of them pounced on me. In real life, I felt its paw pressing into my back, while in the dream I fell to the ground. It was so heavy and so real that it woke me up. I opened my eyes to see the leopard's back paw walking out of my peripheral (not on the ground but floating in the air). Freaky but cool.
 
I had a weird dream a few months ago where I was dreaming that I was trying to go to sleep but couldn't. Several hours into this I woke up only to realize that I was dreaming that I could not get to sleep.
 
wow, those are some good ones. mine was waking up twice in a nightmare and and the third time i was really awake.
digigeek, wow, 4 times.
I wonder if that is what it is like for coma patients....maybe they are just not aware that their not awake.....?
 
i have dreamt im dreaming on many occasions, and my wife says she has too, so im guessing its common/normal.
 
digigeek said:
I had many of these when I was younger. I had them layered as deep as four levels - you wake up three times inside of a dream.

For me, I only experienced these and other sorts of sleeping phenomena when I was a younger man, maybe from 16-25. After 25, mine pretty much stopped, but I had some WEIRD episodes while it was happening.

I'm pretty sure I made a connection between these episodes and an odd and annoying thing that would happen to me when I think I was mentally tired, but physically awake. I would lay down and sort of hear a dull THUNK! and snap out of falling asleep way too quickly - it was almost like I was FALLING into sleep off of a cliff. Weird and hard to explain. But, whenever I felt that, I would also get things like layered dreams, etc.
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Wow .. Incredible. You've nearly just described every odd sleeping routine I've had in my youth. I'm 25 now, and I rarely have dreams that I remember. It's been that way for about over a year or so, and compared to how often I would dream as I grew up it seems like nothing. I've had that layered effect several times though, only in my youth. I remember being able to recollect it because in the dream I wanted to get out of it, but each time I attempted to wake up I would be in another one. I used to do this thing while dreaming where I'd close my eyes, and my eyes in reality would actually open and I'd be awake. It only worked a few times though.

I've also had those episodes where you're half asleep and half awake (Known as hypnogogia) and you suddenly jump or twitch for a moment. At the time I would actually be imagining, or dreaming something that would elicit such a response, such as falling off of a cliff. So bizarre to hear that from someone else .. I've never told anyone about that before.
 
mike said:
i have dreamt im dreaming on many occasions, and my wife says she has too, so im guessing its common/normal.
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well I said I heard it was rare. not that I studied the topic extensively and found that it was rare. But I bet if you ask 20 of your "friends" that are not into this subject you'll find it's not really that common. I'll be awaiting your final analysis. lol.;):D Also some of the posts imply that it's only happened a couple of times in their lifetime. So is that common to them or is it rare if it only happens a couple of times in your life? Although some people apparently have it happen all the time.
Which I would expect to find in this group of people. I mean the reason people are here is because most of our lives are filled with this strangness, right?
 
Ally said:
If you are talking about having a dream where you are telling people in your dream about your previous dream then yes. I have had this happen several times. I aways find it humorous.
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Ha, funny you mention that. I've done that for the first time this week, and I did it for like 3 consecutive days!
 
Ive been there too. Its a weird sensation when you actually wake and start questioning if your awake or not...probably weirder for my Fiance who had a good laugh.
 
Yup, it happens often to me. Most nights I have dreams that are so real I wake up not sure if it happened or not. Sometime I may go through the day upset or anticipating something to happen based on the dream.

Keith (I'd don't know if this qualifies as a phychic power, but I'm 100% accurate at finding cat vom in the dark with my bare feet.)
 
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