A Dream Within A Dream, Why Does This Happen?

Whoaa.. I never knew it worked that way.. that sounds kinda complicated.. I kinda lost you at the 2nd cycle.. LOL. but thanks for the info anyways.. ;D

hi mean_queen!!! most of the times, we forget our dreams. you might have gone through the 2nd cycle ( unless you stayed awake after your first) but you forget what you have dreamed of. Most of the dreams that you remembered were the ones that stressed you most consciously or unconsciously...have a good night sleep... :

Interesting, so you have 3 cycles. I go to bed late and get up early maybe I should quit doing that.

i am so sorry to have confused you. it was really a dream within a dream. i was led to believe that i was really awake already doing some things when i thought that i had awakened from a bad dream. i never knew that i was still very much asleep. having awakened from a bad dream in my dream, i did some things to pacify myself. i can still remember how shaken i was when i awoke from the dream only to find out later on that even that reaction took place in my dream. i really found it weird. i can never forget that dream because of the horror that that tiny all white child brought into a dream that only happened once ever in my life. it was also the first dream within a dream that was so real. i can still remember all the details. it is as though it was really true that i was awakened, seated myself at the dining table did more assignments while taking a glass of water. until the time came when i felt the need to pee. of course, i have to get up and go to the bathroom. i can still recall my great surprise when i got a bog from falling from my bed. only then did i realize that, i was still dreaming all along and had not done anything at all like having been awakened when that girl tripped me.

I see.. so it was really a dream within a dream lol. :P Ok ok, like I mentioned, it happened to me before. The details elude me now. That's the thing with dreams - unless I intentionally want to remember them or jot them now, the memory of it (no matter how intense it was upon waking) within fades off within hours. Oh well, just shrug it off unless you suspect it is something like premonitions. Like how I have long (sort of) forgotten my disturbing snake dream (exactly many other equally disturbing ones took its place but I thought it would be plain boring if I share my dreams everyday. :P).

our dreams maybe boring for others. however, if you know somebody who knows how to interpret dreams, they will be the best topics there is on earth.

these are terrible dreams, i agree with you, evanhunter. there are times when i am awake and i have to convince myself that i am not dreaming. that i am really awake. as for that kind of dream wherein we are having a bad dream, a nightmare, and we struggle to wake up, but can hardly do it, i wonder who can explain this. i try my best to produce any sound at all so anyone who hears me will wake me up. then i will always concentrate on being able to move any part of my body so that i can get off the spell. i have always been successful after a considerable effort.

i hope that this is not true. i mean, about the danger that lurks somewhere whenever this thing happens to someone. so far, i can only remember that it has happened to me twice already and there are even times when i wake up in the morning and i'd ask myself if i am truly awake.

it was really a very troubling nightmare. it was also a very vivid one. the type of dream that immediately comes back to our mind whenever someone will be talking about dreams. at that time i never even thought of it other than that it was just meant to scare me.

hahaha, too. i never liked freddy and i know that that is a fictional character we should be afraid of. but if we want him to be off our tracks, we should erase all fears. so, i have no room for him in my dreams. he'd better deal with jason until the last straw.

at that time, i never thought the dream had any message for me at all. all i know then was that it really puzzled me so much. it was the first one ever which was so detailed and clear. i thought that i was really getting up from the chair so i can head towards the bathroom.

yes, we all have dreams. there are some kinds which make us even so much more rested, some can calm us and some can plant fear in us. the dreams that we've had the night before will definitely have an influence on the feelings and attitude that we have upon waking up. so when you wake up feeling so good and great, you have a series of good dreams then. when you wake up feeling sad and heavy, you have had some sad ones. when you wake up feeling as though you are so afraid of something, there was something fearful that you dreamed of. most of us though will manage to rule the bad feelings over by an act of will power if the feelings generated are undesirable ones.

it is true that dreams have become the subject of a lot of studies. there was even an attempt to find a way for dreams to be recorded. they say that it has been proven that men's lives are greatly affected by their dreams. "knowing the dreams that criminals and mentally disturbed patients have, might be the solution that we are looking for..." i can still recall these words were said in that report. so far, no success has ever been achieved in this yet. maybe, there will be many who would like to have their dreams recorded if that machine ever got to be developed. it will help unearth the feelings that we will be having upon waking up. on second thought, won't it be such a waste of time, too? to be examining what happened during all those hours of sleep will surely consume some good hours of our day.

as for this case, it is fine to make our dreams come true if they are good ones and we work on them. actually, it is fine to be inspired by our good dreams to do good.

yes, dreams can really amaze us if we will remember those very weird ones. i believe my second dream was about a war taking place. when i woke up in it, there was somebody chasing me. when i finally awakened i was gasping for breath. i know what you mean, dear friend. now we already know that we are really having a marathon of dreams as we go through this sleeping habit in the evenings. those 3 cycles of brain activity has to do so much here.

it is really something that plays within our minds. that is what dreams do to us. our brain is more complicated than anyone can ever think of. its intricacies has been revealed to us in many baffling ways.

do you mean to say that you sleep walk? are you really in your mother's bedroom bodily when you wake up? that may be weird, really weird. i believe that you have to tell your mother about this so she will find a way to lock all doors and windows in a way that you cannot open them while you are in a dream. sleep walking can be dangerous if you go out of the house deep in the night. we will never know what is out there at these hours. by the way, welcome to mylot. with only 2 points yet to your credit, i can see that you have just started. happy mylotting. i will share with you a faster way to get those points climb. after posting a response, you can look into the responses of others in the same discussion and see if there is one which you can comment on. that will be another point that you have earned.