So last night I had one of the wierdest yet most amazing dreams ever. I don't really remember much about it like visuals or conversations, it's one of the most complex dreams I've ever had, but from what I do remember, the concept, I can instantly recognise that it's been heavilly influenced by Inception.

Basically, my dream last night was about time travel, but it wasn't just simply traveling through time, I was traveling back in time through different layers of time (i.e. dream layers). Much like Inception when they try to bring them selves out of the dream, they come back to reality layer by layer, eventually I had to go back into the past, layer by layer. I specifically remember these visuals of stepping through the different layers of time which I had previously visited on my journey. I could see each one only for a second as I stepped through this bubble back into "reality."

There was five different layers I'd visited and I believe on layer five the dream began to turn into a nightmare, which was why I wanted to return back to the first layer (layer zero, I guess) as quickly as possible. But when I actually returned, I found that three of my partners (there were other people with me) couldn't withstand the journey and there dismembered bodies were lying on the floor squished in pools of blood.

This really was a freaky dream, but it explored concepts I'm really glad it explored. I don't think the theme of my dream was particularly time travel, more than it was exploring different layers in the way that Inception does. I think the idea of time travel (or my memory of it) was me wanting to return to a moment in time that I once was at while I was exploring these layers. As in, the dream developed into a nightmare so I wanted to go back in time to a moment where the dream wasn't a nightmare.

Has anyone else experienced this? I case anyone's interested, this was actually from night two of my mindight drinks experimentation (see the thread "Sugar and Caffene Induced Lucid Dreaming" in the Lucid Aids forum) which is quite pleasing as it's deffinately showing that what I'm experimenting with is in fact increasing the vividness of my dreams and allowing me to reach concepts I've never reached before.