dreaming within a dream

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greetings all,

i feel as if when i dream it is very real. i have lucid dreaming... upon awakening, i spend about an hour debriefing from that reality and preparing to emerge myself into the waking reality. boom, it hits me... being awake is not much different then when i am quote... asleep. how can we truly know if we are awake or if we are truly dreaming? i realize that all of this is illusion and is created upon perspective....

any thoughts? am i bats**t crazy? anyone understand what i am saying?

with peace,

JanusOne

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that you can't tell that you're dreaming, while you're dreaming? If so, I get the sense that's true for most people. I've had the occasional dream that I could control because I somehow figured out I was dreaming. I've read stuff about lucid dreaming online also. They have techniques that, if used regularly, are supposed those types of dreams where you know you're dreaming. I don't use them though.

when i dream i do have lucid dreaming, meaning i can control them... when i am awake, i control my reality, sometimes they are so much the same, that it sometimes seems hard to tell the difference....

with peace,

JanusOne

You can't control your reality in the same way that a lucid dreamer can control a dream. If you are having a lucid dream, you can suddenly become a superhero or change your location or whatever.

i realize that i can't be a super hero or go from here to there in reality! it is more of the sensation in the mind... i realize the limitations of human existence... it is more of a mind set that i was referring to!

thank you for your comments....

with peace,

JanusOne

I'm confused. Have you had the type of dream I'm talking about, where you could control the dream and do cool stuff? That's what I was trying to find out. That's why I compared the control in a lucid dream versus the control in reality.

If not, then I still don't understand your question. Sorry about that.

I've had a few dreams within dreams. I guess you're wondering how to know whether you've really woken or whether you're just dreaming that you've woken? I don't suppose there's any reliable way. You could probably get into the habit of pinching yourself (or performing some other test of wakefulness) whenever you seem to have woken, but I doubt that you'd think of doing that test every time when you were in fact dreaming, though you might be able to do it every time you'd really woken up. Sometimes you just won't suspect you're dreaming.