I woke up this morning at 6.30am. With no intention of getting up so early, I dozed back to sleep. And as I approached the border between consciousness and sleep, I actively sought to have a dream. At was as if I was pushing myself into a fantasy world - a world that I could control, a world without worries, a world where peace could be found. My efforts resulted in a series of highly vivid visual images - far more vivid than any dream I'd had before. I can't remember the content of any of them, although one had a foreboding undertone. Each image did not last long, and afterwards , I returned to consciousness before willing in a new image.
The next thing that I remember is giving someone else this account of the preceding vivid dreams. But that cannot have happened, because I haven't seen the person for years. So this part must have been a dream.
Several things left me feeling disconcerted when I eventually woke up
i) having the initial, highly vivid dream
ii) having a dream immediately afterwards that posed as a waking reflection on the previous dream
iii) having a dream that followed on directly from what seemed to be a conscious experience of trying to start dreaming
The question is: was I awake when I had the experience of trying to start dreaming?
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I have once or twice had the experience of consciously trying to direct my dreams. These dreams, though short-lived, were more vivid than my normal dreams (they had a better defined geometry and were brighter). Presumably this is related to lucid dreaming, a fascinating phenomenon that I would like to know more about (this goes for dreams in general).(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming
I cannot remember particular instances of it myself, but the idea of discussing a dream in a subsequent dream does not seem that odd to me.
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