The first dream I had was of me going back to elementary school, with my class discussing some class-related business. Even in the dream, I had a degree of self-awarenes and I found the entire thing somewhat peculiar - I’m a college student now, what am I doing back in elementary school with my old class? I voiced my discontent and wonderment out-loud in the classroom, but everybody thought I was crazy and became extremely hostile towards me, even frightened of me. I didn’t like the atmosphere anymore, so with the little self-awareness I had, I tried to wake up, and I thought I did, but unwittingly I only entered
the second dream. This one felt much stranger than the first after actually waking up, despite feeling more real at first during the dream itself. In the second dream I fooled myself that I woke up, but that I was asleep for 10 months and that it was Christmas already (I know Christmas isn’t exactly 10 months away, it’s a friggin dream). I asked my parents how the fuck could I have slept for 10 months, but nobody seemed to be surprised except me. I asked them how was it possible for me to survive 10 months without food or water, just sleeping, they responded that my body went into some vegetative state or something, that they had a doctor check me and he said it was nothing unusual or to be concerned about. As all of this was occurring, my self-awareness was growing - I was becoming increasingly aware that this was only another dream, though not fully. The thought of sleeping for 10 months terrified me for some reason - it was like a part of my life was taken that I would never be able to live through again. Just as I was about to ask what became of my studies, and is really nobody surprised that I slept for 10 months, my self-awareness grew enough for me to become aware that I’m partaking in a dream, or rather, a nightmare. I began mentally struggling and tried to shake and move my body (real life body) with my mind alone, and whether I succeeded or not I managed to wake up.
This isn’t the first time it happened to me. Some years ago I had 4 dreams like this, and each time I thought I woke up, when in reality (or rather, in a dream) I just entered another dream. I wrote the content of those dreams down somewhere, so I might put them here as well later on.
Anybody with similar experiences and/or any thoughts about this?
Since there is already a thread dedicated to meaning of dreams, let this thread be dedicated exclusively to dreams within dreams and their interpretations/thoughts about them.