Having a dream within a dream

Date: 5/3/2020

I had a dream yesterday about having this one dream where I am in a dim room lit by the red light. There is a creepy figure in the background, with sharp teeth (like fangs). He would move closer to me and bite my arm, with pain radiating up it. But the weird thing is... I didn’t wake up in real life, even though I felt pain in my dream inside a dream!!! It was a very weird experience. There was a guy that was suppost to monitor me having the dream (I thought that he was causing the dream to occur). We first went into the guest room in my house, we Laid down, and he asked me what I wanted to listen too out of various meditation music. I picked one, and was soon “asleep”. We go on an adventure at some point, with my flying above some sort of city. But the city was on fire, and there were many demonic figures eating people alive in their own homes! I forgot the rest of this, but I remember mentioning to him after waking up that I always had the same dream, with the demonic figure digging it’s teeth into my flesh. “It really hurts” was a quote in my dream. He always seemed to be awake when I awoke from the dream. Very suspicious. I have no interpretation for this. Now, I also vaguely recall another dream where I am in this large bathroom, hiding with some other people from this one man. I hide in one of the stalls, with my feet on the toilet seat. I hear the man enter the bathroom, looking for us. I knew that he had bad intentions. He opened my door, and there he was! It looked a lot like vuldamort (bad spelling). He had a mask over his face (one to protect against COVID-19????). He grabbed me by the shirt, and I started to struggle. But then I realized that there was no point in struggling, so I stopped and said in a very bland tone: “I’m not afraid of you”. Saying nothing, he put my head underwater in the sink. Suddenly, I am somewhere else. We go on a journey, going through tunnels and other places I can recall at the moment. I believe that this dream happened before the one above, but it’s hard to remember. Very vivid. After awakening from the dream within a dream dream (that’s a mouthful!), I had a semi-conscious dream (I would describe this as a hypnapompic hallucination, since it occurred soon after waking up). This was very thought-like, and was nothing like the wild and irrational dreams above. I am with my sister and my two friends. My sister is describing how we are going to have a bonfire at someone’s house (I visualize Fredrick’s house). She said that we are going to have to be 6 feet apart. She then says that we will move to our house, where we will get to hang out some more (again, I visualize our house). I am woken up at 10:30. This dream journey was very vivid and amazing. Too bad emotions from a dream can’t remain intact when awoken from them (damn you, hippocampus!) For my interpretation, I believe that I’m simply taking memories from different moments during the week and combining them in the visual sequence that you could call a dream. All of my fears, thoughts, desires, and events are all in there, even if most of it is unconscious and beyond the level of my awareness. For instance, since the Coronavirus pandemic has been upon us for quite some time, that might be why I had a hallucination about staying 6-feet apart. But then again, hallucinations are just your current internal thoughts, in which your brain does not to automatically like it does in a dream.