I’ll start this out by saying that last night, I had a dream within a dream and become lucid in the second tier of dreams. I woke to the first tier once or twice but fell back asleep and became lucid in the second tier again.
This got me thinking…could the dream within a dream have a use to LD’ing? I may have found a possibility:
Suppose that you wanted to do something inherently unstable in an LD. Something you aren’t comfortable with entirely or maybe just going to a new place, etc. Something that might make you wake up from your dream.
The idea is, you become lucid and stable within the first dream and then go to sleep while doing a lucid technique in order to become lucid in the second dream (the dream within a dream). After that, you can go and do whatever it is you wanted. If you end up waking up, it’ll be to your lucid self in the first dream, not the real world. You can then just go back to sleep in the first dream and try again.
One problem that may develop here, and it’s one I noticed last night, is that the dream within a dream is hard to stabilize. Things become very hazy and felt somewhat out of control.
Anyway, just an idea that I thought I’d share with you all.
Yeah, you definitely could. Or take a lucid pill or something. I mean, just do whatever stabilization technique you normally do, but do it in the second dream so you could experiment there.
One problem I see developing is that… if you wake up, you’re not guaranteed to wake up in a closer-to-consciousness layer of a dream. You may be just as likely, if not more, to actually wake up. I just say this because I’ve used going to sleep in an LD before to teleport (so it was technically the same level of dreaming I was in despite having gone to sleep,) and have become lucid by going into dreams-within-nonlucid-dreams but woke up from those without going through the levels.
True; I actually woke up from the one last night from the second dream straight to consciousness. I guess you may be able to counteract this by making sure you were firmly rooted/stabilized in the first dream and also to fall asleep in the first dream somewhere familiar but not where you actually would be IRL at the time.
I did this before also, I was in an ND and I was with my friends and passed out while watching a movie, when I fell asleep in the ND I fell into an insta-dream so I knew I was dreaming right away, except as soon as I became lucid the dream became really hazy and fell apart and went into a black void. When I woke up I didnt wake up into the ND I woke up in my bed actually awake.