Dream within a dream?

[cube]

I've had a few like that. Once I dreamt I was waking up with real-time astral sight that allowed me to look through my eyelids. I woke up from the dream into another dream, and then woke up again but without 3rd eye sight.

Another time I was on a camping trip where we had made peach cobbler in a dutch oven but didn't cook it well enough on top and it made everyone puke. I was sleeping in my tent and dreamed I got up and out of the tent and went over an barfed on the scoutmaster. After I was done I woke up for real and threw up all over my sleeping bag then carried my yak encrusted bag to the scoutmaster who happened to be standing in the same spot by the fire that I had dreamed him.

I don't really know why this happens, I have a hunch that this is mostly the imagination feeding stuff to the subconscious to create odd dreams that mirror past experiences or that reflect the way you currently feel. These aren't astral experiences at all I don't think.

[mazdaaf]

that happens to me a lot, most of the time it is before or after i have an OBE though. So i do believe they are related. Plus, if you can see with astral sight but you are just in bed then the chances are you have projected already but because of the mind split effect (read Astral Dynamics if you havent already) you are just on your physical bodys side. I dont know why this happens either but im starting to get used to it becuase its happening 3 or 4 times each week 0_o

[kiauma]

I think it is astral related.  I've read of many on this forum who started having them after they started experimenting with OBE.  I have also had that type of dream, where you dream you wake up multiple times, and think you are awake, but each time you find you are dreaming.  When I finally do wake up, I am afraid to move for fear it is a dream...

If you think about it symbolically though, it makes perfect sense in mirroring your discovery of multiple planes of existance.

[mazdaaf]

woah yeah i never thought of it like that... or do you think it could be all your astral bodys from the higher planes coming back to your physical or something? do they even come back to u? lol

[kiauma]

...or a warning to make sure that happens[?]

[thelou]

Kiauma,

I do not understand, a warning to make sure what happens?

[kiauma]

quote:...or do you think it could be all your astral bodys from the higher planes coming back to your physical or something? do they even come back to u? lol

Make sure they all come back.

[thelou]

I recently had a very vivid and realistic dream, unfortunately I was not lucid and did not know I was dreaming until I woke up.  But a very strange thing happened.  In the dream I went to sleep and had a dream.  That dream was also very vivid.  I then woke up from that dream and told the people in the first dream about it.  Thinking at the time it was real.  Has anyone else ever had a dream withing a dream?  Or does anyone know of any other posts/locations I can find more info on this?

Thanks

thelou