HEy folks

So, I´m new here, and I came to this place to specificaly ask for your opinion about a recent dream of mine that really has me thinking.

As background information, I moved out of my parents place 2 years ago, because we weren´t getting along and it would have gone real bad if we didn´t get some space. Anyways, I now live in my own flat and it´s been a liberation ever since. I always felt my parents were oppressing and that I couldn´t breathe properly in their house. But I do have reoccurring dreams where I wake up at my old room again, and I find out that for some reason I have gone back to my old place after work instead of going to my flat. Or I would have gone back because I wanted to get the rest of my stuff (i left quit a lot behind). So here I´m wondering what the hell I´m doing there and how to get back and I´m saying to myself to not get back to my parents place next time and stuff.


The thing is, I taught myself to know that I´m dreaming as soon as i´m with my parents again, and it has been working quite well. Only yesterday, this happened on one of those dreams:

It was as if I had two shows running at the same time: part of me was in the dream in my parents house, the other part was in my appartment (the real world so to say). Now, whereas I know the parents part was unreal, the real-thing bit also felt unreal. I kept remembering stuff that never happened, so I knew i was dreaming here to, but I wasn´t entirely sure, because compared to the parents bit, this HAD to be real, so I taught myself.

Being a diligent LDstudent, I was now searching for a sign to confirm I was dreaming. I immediately thought of the lightswitch, and said: i cant turn the lights on, it wont work, cos i know i´m dreaming. BUT, i flipped the switch and the light turned on. no delay,no flicker, nothing. I was baffled. Then I thought of finding something to read and grabbed a book....and i COULD READ! in my dream! it was a book about animals, hardcover, not very high, larger width, and thick with a hardcover, I flicked through it and saw pictures and text. I stopped on a page about snakes, read a passage, looked away and back...and read the exact same passage. The book stayed the same, had the same weight, the pictures on the page where the same, I was still in my room and read the exact same words I read before. I also clearly remember looking at my wristwatch, and it stayed about
3pm (analog watch). I soon afterwards woke up for real and couldn´t get this out of my head. NONE of the usual dream indicators worked. I chose 3 different methods, and none of them confirmed that i was dreaming.

So was some part of me trying to deceive me in such a cunning way that the dream was so well constructed that it could not be revealed as a dream? The parents-part of the dream never disappeared though, it was as if this part of the dream that I definitely knew to be a dream was continuing in the background.

If you stayed with me this far, I´d really love to read your views about this! thank you!