Dreaming In My Dreams

djeddy

i think i often had dreams where i appear to be dreaming other dreams in my dreams

Black Swan

Do you ever try to pinch yourself in your dream? Have you seen the old film, "Lady Hawk?" The boy lead has a scene early in the film where he questions whether he is dreaming that he is dreaming.

djeddy

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Do you ever try to pinch yourself in your dream? Have you seen the old film, "Lady Hawk?" The boy lead has a scene early in the film where he questions whether he is dreaming that he is dreaming.

no i dont think so

I've had a few dreams within other dreams over the years. Because I often lucid dream, this is fine and it's occurence doesn't faze me.

I had this one awful experience about two months ago, though, and it scared the **** out of me...


All in italics in the dreamstate:

I was having some largely insignificant dream about something or other when I woke up slowly from it. I get up after a while and venture outside. It's dark and gloomy and there are very few people around. There are maybe two bland buildings in the area and the area between them is fenced in around a smallish perimeter. There is an air of foreboding about the place. The other people seem are quite, unobtrusive. They don't talk to me, nor I to them. I start feeling like I should try to go away from the place. I go towards the opposite building and then towards the fence beside it. It gets further and further away as I try to approach. I stop, looking around again. On the other side, the fence runs along a narrowish road for a bit until it reaches a gate that blocks the rest of the road. I go towards the gate. It doesn't seem to be receding, thankfully. But just as I'm about to reach it, someone calls me. I look back and feel compelled to go back. Halfway back, I change my mind and start towards the gate again. But then I wake up. I'm back in that bed. I get up again and go outside. It's the exact same as it was in the dream I'd just had. I start to panic, realising that every time I wake up, I'd still be stuck in this dream. There is no way out. I wake up a few more times over the next few minutes and still find myself trapped in that place. I scream so loudly, I feel it must have been audible in reality.


Finally, I wake myself up in reality. I lie, frozen and terrified, in the dark. I was convinced the dream was trying to kill me. Suddenly I'm asleep again. It just continues as it was just before I woke up. I wake up in real life a twice more to experience the exact same. Finally, I manage to grab my chance when I wake up again. I collect myself for a few seconds but no longer for fear that the dream would catch me again, then turn on my bedside lamp, sit up, go to the kitchen for water and try to restore some sanity in myself.


Possibly the weirdest thing about all this is that: I was COMPLETELY sober that night. I hadn't taken drugs for a good while before that night. I wasn't drinking for a few days. I wasn't sleep-deprived. Nothing. I hadn't even eaten anything unusual or had any strange teas. Nada.

It was ****ing horrible.

djeddy

it is not nice to have louzy or scary dreams,

whether it has something to do the way we sleep, on our sides back or whatever?

it is funny how dreams can effect our moods when we wake up, for me if i have a nice dream, i wake up cheery, not so cheery if i had a not so nice dream