I’m Flavia and I have the lucid dreaming gift since I am a child.
I wanted to know if someone else is experiencing LD in more layers and how do you live with this. I personally feel stressed sometimes becouse when I decide to wake up then I find myself in another dream where I was before, and then I decide again to wake up and still I’m am in another layer of dream, maybe coming from earlier in the night.
I learned that the less I see (with my eyes inside of the dream) in the dream the deeper is the “level“.
I would like to know if someone else is experiencing this and how is dealing with it, if is scary or not.
Sounds like false awakenings, which is fairly common experience for lucid dreamers. Often not too scary for me personally. I once really wanted to wake up from a nightmare and had about 8 false awakenings in a row which did stress me a bit. I don’t see false awakenings as an issue tho, its an interesting experience to have.
To the other point you brought up about vision, how you frame it to mean the layer you are in, I often experience some blurry vision in lucids that I clear away by reminding myself that “I’m not using my actual eyes, nothing can hinder my vison.”
It sounds like you tend to have false awakenings when you intentionally try to wake yourself up from a lucid dream.
I personally don’t believe waking or sleeping into a dream puts one into different “levels” like the movie Inception portrays. I see the events of waking and sleeping as just any other dream event or experience. So instead of waking multiple times being moving through levels, I’d see it as an event just replayed a few times.
However if you BELIEVE you’re moving through levels, or you’re stuck, then the dream experience will appear as if it were true.
I’ve noticed my dream eyes get dark or blurry in areas where I can’t “see” as well metaphorically. Perhaps by limiting beliefs I carry, blind spots to situations, when I’m interacting with things that I don’t quite yet understand. A symbolic representation of some inner experience.
Thank you so much for your replies. The reason I believe they are layers is because I recognize that the dream in the previous layer is nothing more than a dream I was having previously. However, I like the idea that it’s just my belief manifesting in a dream.
My realization was that the deeper I delve into dreams (layer-wise), the less I see. As you said, it could be a metaphorical question of sides of my subconscious that I can’t see.
I also sometimes have 8 or more layers (or, as you call them, false awakenings). Thanks for your opinions, because I hadn’t considered the possibility that they were false awakenings. Let’s see if now that I have this knowledge something will change.