Wow, cool

[simont]

I dreamed that my house had somehow acquired an extra bedroom.

Then I woke up, realised that was silly, got out of bed – and found my house had acquired an extra bedroom, but in a different place.

Then I woke up. Extra points for a dream-within-a-dream! I think I've had one of those before, but never that vividly.

(On the minus side, second time this week I've overslept. I need to get better at using this alarm clock…)

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[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I've had one of those like that before, but only under the influence of extreme painkillers.

OTOH, when I have an early start for something important I do often dream I'm waking up having overslept (then wake up properly and check the clock). This typically will happen a good few times.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I've had one of those before, too - I remember telling someone about my dream, then later waking up "again" and realising that the telling had happened inside the dream.

It's a strange feeling.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

I had one, where I got rather freaked out, as it had every appearance of being an infinitely nested dream.

When I finally did wake up, I had quite a prolonged "omg am i a butterfly" moment.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

I once had a dream where I kept waking up and finding I was still in the dream in exactly the same place I was before I woke up and no matter how many times I woke up I kept finding I was in the same place and couldn't get out of the dream.

It was very odd, but I did wake up properly eventually... I think. Either that or I eventually found a discontinuity upon waking up.

[gerald_duck]

I once dreamed that I was having a lucid dream. Then the dream about the lucid dream became lucid.

That left me feeling quite strange at least until the early afternoon.

(Hmm. I need a "recursion" userpic.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Does your house have sufficient bedrooms?

[zotz]

Have you read House of Leaves?

[gjm11.livejournal.com]

The recursive-sounding "dream within a dream" terminology is, I think, misleading. The "inner" dream is just a perfectly ordinary dream. Then you dream *about waking up*. (That's the only bit with serious meta-ness to it.) Then you carry on with another perfectly ordinary dream. At this point you can in principle dream about waking up again, etc., etc., etc.

It's rather like tail-recursion optimization, only backwards.

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

I used to have them when I was at school. I'd "wake up", do a day at school, come home and go to bed and then wake up properly and have to do the day again.