A Lucid Dream within a dream

**Enjyu** · 05-15-2011 10:32 AM

This one's a bit hard to explain, but I'll try my best to make it easy to understand.

This night I dreamt that I was going to sleep. When I fell asleep (inside the dream) I had another dream in which I was doing a reality check. I tried pushing my finger through my palm, which didn't work. But somehow I thought "Why doesn't this work? I'm dreaming, so my finger should go through my palm." (even though I somehow knew I was dreaming I didn't become lucid).

So I tried again, moving my finger around a little while pushing it, and this time it did go through my palm. At this point I realised I was dreaming (so I was having a Lucid Dream within a normal dream). All I thought at that moment was "Oh okey... I'm having a Lucid Dream. Now what?" (I wasn't very enthusiastic about it at all).

Shortly afterwards I woke up from the Lucid Dream, back to the original one, where I wasn't lucid. I thought about how I should do more Reality Checks to get more Lucid Dreams and woke up (for real this time).

Has anyone else ever had something like this before?

**zebrah** · 05-15-2011 10:42 AM

Dreams within dreams aren't possible.

You had a dream in which the plot involved lucid dreaming. You didn't realize it was a dream because you were not aware. Awareness and a lucid dream plot are different.

Also you can't have half of a lucid dream.

**Enjyu** · 05-15-2011 11:14 AM

Thanks for your reply.

I guess that instead of having a lucid dream within a normal one, I just lost lucidity, and somehow teleported back to my bed where I was before dreaming that I fell asleep.

Also, I know you can't have half a lucid dream. You're either lucid or you're not. That "½" in my LD Count is about a dream I had a few months ago, and I didn't know if I should count it as a Lucid Dream or not.
But that's not what this thread is about.

**zebrah** · 05-15-2011 11:45 AM

Right the 1/2 thing I just mentioned in passing. If you knew it was a dream it was lucid.

Also a dream where you find yourself waking up in your bed is called a false awakening. It is a good idea to reality check every time you wake up to make sure it isn't a FA.