I was in the passenger seat of a friend's car when I dozed off and had a strange dream about something very abstract. I can't even remember exactly what that dream was about, and the subject matter of that dream is actually of no importance. What is important is that after snoozing for a moment in my friend's car, I awoke thinking about and perplexed by the strange dream. Even stranger...I subsequently woke up again only to realize that I had been dreaming about dreaming while riding in a friend's car. Tripped me the **** out! Have you ever experienced the "dream within a dream" phenomenon? Do tell...
You know, I had never experienced one of these until recently. I was on the phone with my boyfriend and fell asleep and started having a nightmare, and then I woke up from it and got up. I then went to tell my mom about it and then went back to bed and told my boyfriend about it.. shortly after this, I woke up and asked him if I had told him about it which I was pretty sure I had not, and I didn't. Weird.
I had these a few times. I even had a dream within a dream within a dream. One interesting thing that I noticed is that in each successive inner layer of the dream, the action is easier to control. Every time you "wake up", the action gets harder to control, until the real wake up, where everything is just as usual (e.g. normal amount of control). One example that I remember is, I dreamt about waking up on a cold rainy late autumn morning. After waking up in the dream, I found that the alarm in the dream failed to work, so I woke up late. So, in the dream, I go through the procedure of going into the bathroom and getting ready for school, and I am late to the school bus in the dream... After which, I wake up for real, just slightly before the real alarm went off... and it actually was a rainy late afternoon morning. Another one that I had involved three fake layers of waking up, and each time I woke up not in my bed but in a completely unknown place. I don't remember the details though...
I've only had one of these dreams and it scared the shit out of me. It was by far one of the weirdest feelings. i dont know how to make sense of it. In my dream i was at an old friends house i hadnt seen in a long time. i missed her a lot. however when i was there it was like i saw her but she could not see me. i tried to talk to her, but it was like she was ignoring me and i wasnt even there. all the sudden she was gone and i was in her house by myself, still totally aware that i was dreaming. well, then this eerie feeling that had been over me for almost the whole dream get very strong and i feel the need to wake up, and since i know im dreaming, i tell myself to wake up. and i do, or at least i think i do.. i see all the things i would have seen had i woken up; a dark room with all the same stuff. i start to ponder my strange dream lying in my bed when a dark shadowy dog comes around my bed. my 1st instinct is to reach for it since i love animals, but as my hand get closer i get a sensation of evil and pull back quickly and frantically try to say a prayer i used to say when i was younger and i got scared.. well just as i start to say it and open my mouth pronouncing one of the words, its as if something jumps through my mouth and i am shaking almost like a seizure, then wake up a second time..this time for real, still shaking for a small moment... nothing like that has EVER happend to me and it scared me for a long time, thank god this has happend to someone else.
^^Wow Greengirl! That's a trippy dream. I had one similar to your dream that still trips me out to this day. It wasn't a dream w/in a dream but it was definately real enough to make me fearful. It's wild how much power our subconscious holds.
i've had going to sleep IN my dreams equal waking up in this life! i've also had the waking up twice bit. neither of which happen very often. less often even the recognizing anyone from this universe in them, which isn't the most common thing in mine either. PLACES LIKE places i've been in this life fairly common, but places a LOT more common then individual or composit persons. (i perceive my surrounding more as geomety and texture then socially in THIS life too, which probably has a lot to do with that) quantum universes/phenomina are NOT counter intuitive to me, though they are distinguishable from most of how things in everyday living appear. (i think most people don't read enough real litterary 'hard' science fiction, and even i don't often enough access REAL science, what goes on in journals and leads to what does) =^^= .../\...
