Dream Within A Dream!

Stormkhan

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Well, it finally happened!
When I woke up, I managed to recall several strange dreams - no surprises there - but one remained in my memory, mainly because I briefly woke up after it.

I dreamed that my wife and I were comfy and warm in a double bed in a large, very sparingly furnished room. I became aware that a small man - a midget - knocked on the door to the room, entered and quietly asked if I could get up and open the 'main shutters' of the building. Unsurprised (apparently), I did so and followed him out of the room to find myself in a warehouse similar to one I worked in over 20 years ago! I was about to move open the huge concertina-style shutters at the front when I suddenly said "Hang on! We don't have shutters here; they're in the loading bay!" and I woke up, back in the double bed with my wife in the large spartan room. I shook her awake to tell her of my dream ... only to wake myself up in our reality!

First time I've had a dream in a dream!
 
I had one a couple of weeks as was dreaming of my deceased brother walked into the front room of his house and I was asking for his help then work up in the attic bedroom thinking that was a strange dream and then went to open the bedroom door and my hand right through the door like I was a Ghost and then I really woke up.
 
Increasingly as I get older I am getting weird hypnogogic... I suppose 'sensations' is the best way I can describe them. As I am falling asleep, I feel as though I am remembering a dream or having memories of things that definitely haven't happened. It feels a little like dreaming within a dream, because although I think I am awake and 'remembering', I'm really not, as is demonstrated by a sudden hypnic jerk or being woken up by external events.
 
catseye said:
Increasingly as I get older I am getting weird hypnogogic... I suppose 'sensations' is the best way I can describe them. As I am falling asleep, I feel as though I am remembering a dream or having memories of things that definitely haven't happened. It feels a little like dreaming within a dream, because although I think I am awake and 'remembering', I'm really not, as is demonstrated by a sudden hypnic jerk or being woken up by external events.
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Oh yes!!!! exactly This happens to me just about every night as I'm dropping off. Those really clear "false" memories are very, very similar to temporal lobe epilepsy
 
Mouldy13 said:
Oh yes!!!! exactly This happens to me just about every night as I'm dropping off. Those really clear "false" memories are very, very similar to temporal lobe epilepsy
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I'm so glad someone else knows what I mean! No epilepsy here, although I am prone to migraines.
 
Mouldy13 said:
My specialist said that it's only recently that neurologists have begun to investigate the links between migraine (which i also suffer from) and epilepsy
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Well it's not THAT recently - I've known for at least five years, maybe longer, that there's a link.
 
catseye said:
Well it's not THAT recently - I've known for at least five years, maybe longer, that there's a link.
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Maybe there is a link. I've had migraines for years now and sometimes have the dreams where you "wake up" from your dream, only to then "wake up" again, tell your partner about it and how strange it felt... then ACTUALLY wake up and tell your partner etc etc... A really strange sensation, but I love it! I'm on medication to keep the migraines at bay now and I don't think I've had this happen since.
 
dannycheveaux1 said:
Maybe there is a link. I've had migraines for years now and sometimes have the dreams where you "wake up" from your dream, only to then "wake up" again, tell your partner about it and how strange it felt... then ACTUALLY wake up and tell your partner etc etc... A really strange sensation, but I love it! I'm on medication to keep the migraines at bay now and I don't think I've had this happen since.
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I actually meant the link between migraines and epilepsy. My mother had truly dreadful, life-affecting migraines and the link with epilepsy was known back then. Maybe they are only just properly beginning to investigate. I think there was also so link posited with heart problems (hole in the heart if I remember rightly)?

I've only sporadically had the 'false awakening' dream.
 
I have always had dreams within in dreams. They can be confusing. Especially if my husband is in them and I am talking to him. He's been dead for 10+ years, but dreaming confuses me because I don't realize he's gone.

Perhaps similar to @catseye experience with false remembering, I have woken with memories that aren't real, but I figure out were short dreams that are so inane that I have to take minutes to sort out if it was a conversation I had or a dream. I once woke thinking that I owed my mom $20.00. I had to think this over for several minutes and came to the conclusion that the conversation was a dream simply because I don't borrow money from my mom.
 
Min Bannister said:
I think I had the epitome of all anxiety dreams last night. I dreamed that I needed the toilet but couldn't find one. I eventually found ladies toilets but there was a man in there and the toilets were not in cubicles so I couldn't go. Then when I woke up I found I had wet the bed. :eek: Then when I actually woke up, I hadn't really wet the bed at all!

So I had dreamed that I dreamed that I couldn't get to the toilet..:headspinner:
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This is one I had, copied from the What Did You Dream Of Last Night thread.

https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...ream-of-last-night.59497/page-57#post-2015993

These dreams are very freaky indeed!
 
Last night I did the 'thinking within a dream' thing again. Normally dreams just happen, and I go along with them, maybe with some kind of 'this is scary' or 'I need to get out' type of thoughts, but nothing analytical. Last night (I don't remember the details of the dream) I was doing something and trying to work out the best way of accomplishing the task, as I would in waking life.

A little bit like a half way house between normal dreaming and lucidity.
 
As a child I read a storybook, a proper kids' one, called The Princess and the Goblin.* A character called Curdie has a dream wherein he wakes up, jumps out of bed and rushes to the door to deal with some emergency, then realises that he is still asleep and tries hard to actually wake up.

Once again he wakes up, jumps out of bed and rushes to the door, only to find himself still in bed. This process is repeated over and over until he does eventually manage to wake up.
I had no idea what this chapter was supposed to signify and it still baffles me, 54 years later when it's practically the only thing I remember about the book. :chuckle:

* It was the first novel anyone ever recommended to me. A classmate called Gaynor Williams pointed it out and said 'You'll like that!' :)
She was right; and to my relief, when I finished it there was a sequel, phew.
 
I think it was Celia Green who looked at this phenomenon and coined the term "False Awakening". I think her term is a better way of thinking about it. After all, it's not as if the internal dream and the external dream are in any way distinct: they are just bits of the same dream. What is odd is that we dream of waking up.

Hence - False Awakening.

They seem to be commoner as a way of terminating a lucid dream. It's almost as if the mind has trouble keeping the lucid state going, and inserts a False Awakening as a way of returning to a non-lucid dream.

I know I've had several brief lucid dreams followed by False Awakenings, and sat up in bed excited at the thought that I've had a lucid dream - but alas, I'm still asleep.

Your mind does play tricks on you sometimes.
 
Salmonellus said:
I think it was Celia Green who looked at this phenomenon and coined the term "False Awakening". I think her term is a better way of thinking about it. After all, it's not as if the internal dream and the external dream are in any way distinct: they are just bits of the same dream. What is odd is that we dream of waking up.

Hence - False Awakening.
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Not entirely, in my experience. I have had dreams in which my dream character is dreaming. Not a false awakening where you think you are awake.
 
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