A Dream Within A Dream, Why Does This Happen?  

i have no idea about this at all. although these are very rare occurrences, i have never explored the reasons behind it. i just found it to be a weird experience and i have never forgotten that i had those dreams. thank you. now, i know that there is a reason why they happen.

This happens and it is a fact.

yes, it really happens. if i size it up now, it was really better that my sleep went on continuously. students always need to have enough sleep. there are always so many things to do in school. had i awakened from a common dream, i would have been extremely troubled. the dream was so horrifying. there was no way that i could have slept again...

Whoaa.. I never knew it worked that way.. that sounds kinda complicated.. I kinda lost you at the 2nd cycle.. LOL. but thanks for the info anyways.. ;D

hi mean_queen!!! most of the times, we forget our dreams. you might have gone through the 2nd cycle ( unless you stayed awake after your first) but you forget what you have dreamed of. Most of the dreams that you remembered were the ones that stressed you most consciously or unconsciously...have a good night sleep... :>

Interesting, so you have 3 cycles. I go to bed late and get up early maybe I should quit doing that.

this is another new information for me. this three cycles of brain wave activity within an 8-hour sleep is the first time ever thing that i have ever heard of, too. i know that we dream of many things while sleeping and forget almost all of them. according to a study, we only remember the last thing that showed forth in our dream. like now, i will say that i had no dream last night. what i really mean here is, i don't recall at all of a single dream that i had last night.

yes, we all have dreams. there are some kinds which make us even so much more rested, some can calm us and some can plant fear in us.

the dreams that we've had the night before will definitely have an influence on the feelings and attitude that we have upon waking up. so when you wake up feeling so good and great, you have a series of good dreams then. when you wake up feeling sad and heavy, you have had some sad ones. when you wake up feeling as though you are so afraid of something, there was something fearful that you dreamed of.

most of us though will manage to rule the bad feelings over by an act of will power if the feelings generated are undesirable ones.

i am so sorry to have confused you. it was really a dream within a dream. i was led to believe that i was really awake already doing some things when i thought that i had awakened from a bad dream.

i never knew that i was still very much asleep. having awakened from a bad dream in my dream, i did some things to pacify myself. i can still remember how shaken i was when i awoke from the dream only to find out later on that even that reaction took place in my dream.

i really found it weird. i can never forget that dream because of the horror that that tiny all white child brought into a dream that only happened once ever in my life. it was also the first dream within a dream that was so real. i can still remember all the details.

it is as though it was really true that i was awakened, seated myself at the dining table did more assignments while taking a glass of water. until the time came when i felt the need to pee. of course, i have to get up and go to the bathroom. i can still recall my great surprise when i got a bog from falling from my bed. only then did i realize that, i was still dreaming all along and had not done anything at all like having been awakened when that girl tripped me.

I see.. so it was really a dream within a dream lol. :P

Ok ok, like I mentioned, it happened to me before. The details elude me now. That's the thing with dreams - unless I intentionally want to remember them or jot them now, the memory of it (no matter how intense it was upon waking) within fades off within hours.

Oh well, just shrug it off unless you suspect it is something like premonitions. Like how I have long (sort of) forgotten my disturbing snake dream (exactly many other equally disturbing ones took its place but I thought it would be plain boring if I share my dreams everyday. :P).

our dreams maybe boring for others. however, if you know somebody who knows how to interpret dreams, they will be the best topics there is on earth.

yes, dreams can really amaze us if we will remember those very weird ones. i believe my second dream was about a war taking place. when i woke up in it, there was somebody chasing me. when i finally awakened i was gasping for breath. i know what you mean, dear friend.

now we already know that we are really having a marathon of dreams as we go through this sleeping habit in the evenings. those 3 cycles of brain activity has to do so much here.

this sounds funny now that we are only talking about it. you really make me laugh. these are the common dreams that children have. it must have been such a mess for you to have been awakened that way. i can picture in my mind how that went through.

hey, i can relate to this kind of dream. there are some which will wake us up really sobbing very tearfully. i can remember one instance when i awoke having my blanket for a handkerchief! i wonder if this is also what happened to you.

as for this case, it is fine to make our dreams come true if they are good ones and we work on them. actually, it is fine to be inspired by our good dreams to do good.

it is true that dreams have become the subject of a lot of studies. there was even an attempt to find a way for dreams to be recorded.

they say that it has been proven that men's lives are greatly affected by their dreams. "knowing the dreams that criminals and mentally disturbed patients have, might be the solution that we are looking for..." i can still recall these words were said in that report. so far, no success has ever been achieved in this yet.

maybe, there will be many who would like to have their dreams recorded if that machine ever got to be developed. it will help unearth the feelings that we will be having upon waking up. on second thought, won't it be such a waste of time, too? to be examining what happened during all those hours of sleep will surely consume some good hours of our day.

it is really something that plays within our minds. that is what dreams do to us. our brain is more complicated than anyone can ever think of. its intricacies has been revealed to us in many baffling ways.