Hi Spectral. I moved this to "Welcome to Dreams" I know you will PM if you feel this was not a good move on my part..[:P]
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One of the things that I would ask would be how you were feeling before you would sleep in your dream. Did you feel a need to sleep at that time? Were you aware that you were already dreaming at the time? Did you have another dream inside your dream as a result of sleeping? Can you remember the content?
On the other side many of the people I have talked to about "work dreams" are often having some kind of difficulty at work. Is that the case with you? Do you like your job?
Often it is helpful to look at the various real life situations that dreams may referance.
For me the feeling of sleep inside a dream is often a sign that I am going to project and often do when I get tired in the dream I am having. This usually starts to happen shortly after I lay down in said dream.
I clearly remember having a dream inside of a dream, but not about what. I was not lucid until just before waking up. At that point I was so confused I had put myself into "warrior mode" just to think straight and not be too afraid to do so. I clearly remember having a need for sleep and nodding off at work. This work is different than my real work, but felt more real than it somehow, actually this whole dream did. Some of my dreams are like that. I think it's related to a past dream in a way. I need to post that sometime....
I clearly remember waking up in my dream to find I had napped too long, and then scurrying around and then waking up again the same way (deja-vu?) then it happened yet again and I thought that this was a dream and I went lucid. That's when I went into warrior mode (warrior thinking) and started assessing the situation. I got myself to wake up and, half asleep in real world, wondered if at any moment I was going to wake up yet again somewhere else. I did not recognize where I was in the real world. That scared me a bit, but I am over that now. I am not sure if this is my own inner demons or something else that caused this dream, hence the reason for this post. Something just felt too odd about it.
Overall the whole thing shook me up pretty well. One of the most insane nightmares I have had in a good long time.
SpectralDragon,
Not an expert on the subject, but this sounds like multi-layered dreaming. There are different opinions on the subject. The best opinion is of course, is the one you discover yourself. I do a lot of layered dreaming so I have a few thoughts on it. A person can be in more than one place while asleep. You may becoming aware of this at some level. At the same time you are responding to certain details and emotions relating to the physical realm,work for instance. Defining what you find important, and separating this from what other(s) may define as important.Your physical job may be able to be performed "while in your sleep", a task mastered. The time factor has you on edge. There may be a sense of tension,anxiety, or even guilt (real or not). These emotions may be surfacing, or at least your feeling them at some level. This is the phantom perhaps.
Could this have anything to do with your topic you have going in the communication section of this forum? I've been reading it. It seems that the pressure is really on you there. As I read it, I feel a sense of pressure of performance, expectancy, and maybe expediency.There is a lot of things coming at you there.
I'm not one to sleep within dreams, so take what I say lightly. The little bit I've read on the subject says it is a lacking of something, such as awareness, moving forward (energy level in question?). Something like a deep sleep without the benefit. Is something keeping you awake? Restlessness, anxiety, questions, problem solving, and other possibilities.
A lot depends on how you feel after awakening. Refreshed and renewed, or drained and tired.
Multi layered dreaming is a lot of fun in the right frame of mind. The various layers can fall in place to manifest in reality(imo). It's a slow process for me. Could you be speeding up this process with a lot of mental work lately? You probably already do this sort of thing and that's why it's familiar to you (deja-vu?).
I like your topic, Mediating an Arc Angel".
Wow you guys are good [:D]
Yes I have been having a lot of pressure lately, and not just from mediating. I am trying to give the best mediation I can. I am also exploring a world for people and I try to help people out as much as possible.
answered quite of few of my questions, still open to other possibilities though thanks a lot guys [:D]
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that in your dream you saw the time and woke up in bed and the time was the same? Or were you still dreaming then too??
I have odd things happen like this too.
I have dreams that I am in bed, in my room, and that I can't fall asleep...which SUCKS! Because I really think I'm awake and it doesn't make for a restful night of sleep at all.
I learned that I sometimes sleep with my eyes open, or my eyes open a little while I'm dreaming and then close again. So many odd things like you described have happened to me too.
I think maybe your eyes were popping open. Like, in your dream you awoke at work and needed to know the time, and somehow your mind knew to look at the clock by your bed.
I will say it is no fun having a nightmare and having your eyes pop open....Because things seem to run together and it can be intense.
Hope this helps!-Monicat
The not recognising your surroundings when you woke up for real is rather common. It has a lot to do with the kind of dream you were having and the speed at which you woke up. It can take a few seconds for the brain to fully realize where you are when you jump from one situation to the next. The frame of mind you were in near the end of your dream is another big reason for this.
You were in "warrior mode", also called "fight of flight". When an individual is in that mode of thinking they are usually insanely focused on every thing that is going on around them. Durring that the brain is activly processing every thing on an instinctual level deciding what, if anything, is a threat, and what to do about it. This in combination with the sudden change of locations is confusing. When you woke up you basically had to figure out all the who, what, where, and how's all over again. Then process all that informaiton again to figure out if you were safe.
I dream like this almost EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.... I am serious...
I can't recall a time I haven't dreamed about sleeping unless i've been so sleep deprived that I didn't dream for more than a few minutes at a time.
I almost always have a point in my dreams where I dream about sleeping, usually in my room... I can go to sleep, feel like i'm sleeping, enter a dream, wake up (back into the initial dream) and carry on... I can dream that I'm so tired that I'm about to pass out.... I can dream about waking up and getting ready for school, thinking it's real, only to find that I haven't done so at all.
It's really fairly annoying sometimes... I think I never really hit a very "deep" level of sleep so I often times must be slightly aware of my sleeping body enough for it to really significantly impact my unconscious mind.
I don't know.
I also have OBEs within dreams... which is kind of pointless I guess.
thanks guys for helping me understand this dream, I am not good at interpreting these at all.
On a side note, I changed jobs, but my dreams are still troubled. I keep finding myself fighting....and I am usually powerfull in my dreams. Now I am weak, but I am finding ways to beat the foes still. I am wondering if this has a meaning?
BTW: I only remember about one of these a week. I seem to be having trouble remembering dreams as I get older. Is there a reason for this?
This is a little off topic, but I'm curious - has anyone ever tried to dream inside of a dream inside of a dream inside of a.. etc.? So you just keep falling asleep going deeper and deeper in your dreams, or making more layers I guess you would call it.
This feels odd asking for advice instead of giving it, but I have never personally experienced this particular kind of thing before, though I have experienced something like it and eventually broke free of it somehow.
I was sleeping in a dream, dreaming of being at work for some odd reason. In this dream I would sleep while at work behind the bosses back, and my sister would wake me up when a customer came. I never got caught or saw my boss in this dream that I can remember. In a sleeping episode, which felt like real sleep to me, I would sleep, and then wake up to find that it's hours upon hours past the time I wanted to get up. Panicking, I try and take measures to keep the blow of the repurcussions of this from being too bad, only to find that I wake up later in the same bed with the same time on the clock. This continued one more time untill I finally saw the pattern. I finally realized that I must be caught up in a larger dream and broke free of this pattern. I was quite scared during this experience.
Any thoughts or suggestions on what might be going on here is appreciated, thanks.