The most reoccurring dream within a dream people seem to have is the waking dream. The dream where your alarm goes off, you wake up and start getting ready for your day, but then you wake up and realize that was all a dream, and then you have to go through all of that again. That is a dream within a dream, the more times you wake up and go through the waking motions of getting ready for your day, the more levels of dreams within dreams you are experiencing.
Being the odd fellow that I am, I have little to no memory of these sorts of dreams within dreams. No, my dreams within dreams are usual TV and movies.
A stated in the last rambling essay I stated that it is the strangest things that set us off and wake us, and that has everything to do with personality. Different people, different personalities, and different triggers that upset us and our minds wander to different dreams. A very reoccurring dream setting is through the eyes of others, namely the black knight and other characters from the fantasy world. But Hunter, Bombos, and Guy Morgan are all characters I created and the adventures they go on are also derivative of my own imagination, so waking from dreams from their points of view usual are struggles since everything is either a preset of my own understanding or a development further into the same creative thought patterns. Things become a little more impossible and difficult to accept when I see the world through the eyes of other characters, ones I did not create.
A few examples of the more reoccurring characters I have seen the world throw the eyes of in dreams are; Sir Gawain, or King Arthur, or Merlin from Arthurian lore, Autobots Prowl, Ultra Magnus or Optimus Prime; ninja turtle Leonardo; or sometimes Batman or other superheroes. This is not too surprising I really like all the stories and mythologies surrounding the above mentioned characters, and if I go to sleep thinking about them at length it is only natural to dream about them and through their eyes.
However I am not any of these characters, and while I may feel a kindred connection to their motivation, personalities, and emotions, there are differences enough that usually I will begin to struggle between what Batman would do and what I would do. Once that debate starts going through my head it is hard to accept and process, something is wrong and I know it... I know that I am not Batman... I am someone else.
Interestingly enough that debate of identity never occurs when I see the world through the eyes of Hunter, Bombos, or Guy, probably because I have always had complete creative control over them. I decide what their motivations and actions are, I do not have to respect or consider other writers interpretations of them to remain “realistic” within the given confides of the premise and who they are and what worlds they live in. In my fantasy world I am god like in what happens; there are no conflicts of creativity.
I find it quite amusing how my mind usual deals with the dreams through the eyes of fictional characters, what I am seeing cannot be real, so it must be... a movie.
Then the dream takes a dramatic turn, I am sitting in front of the TV watching a new movie or TV show about whichever character I have dreamt about. This is a dream within a dream, the movie or TV show was the dream within the dream of me watching it. I find this an interesting turn, an interesting and highly logical way for my brain to make sense of the situation. “No Colin, you are not ninja turtle Leonardo, you are watching a new ninja turtle movie,” makes sense.
Sometimes I think my imagination unhinged comes up with much more powerful and interesting ideas then Hollywood or Showtime can, but come to think of it, pretty much everyone who loves movies and TV feels that way about the mythologies they love, so I guess I am not so special in that regard. Still my imagination unhinge has greatly entertained me in such dreams, there was some good ideas in there, so some nonsensical ideas, but mostly good.
