No one has complicated thoughts about several dreams from totally different genres while experiencing that one is unable to move a muscle without being awake.
...I’ve had some pretty complicated dreams, where I’ve woken up from a dream(!), gone to work, made coffee, had discussions about the previous dream, had thoughts about the morality or immorality of the dream, then sometime later come to a conclusion that something was out of place(I’m not wearing pants?!) then woken up to realize that I was dreaming. I’ve had nested dreams a good couple of layers deep with this sort of thing going on.
That said I think you have something there, though. Sometimes I wake up (Dream or otherwise) and I remember my dream really vividly, especially when I awake suddenly, due to an alarm clock or something
But I’ve never had a dream that I struggled to remember what was in my dream inside of my dream. At the least, such an activity should really raise my priors that I’m toplevel.
One method to check if you’re dreaming is to hold your nose shut and try to breathe through it—if you’re dreaming, your nose will work “normally”, whereas if you’re awake actual physics will take effect. (Note: every time I’ve done this while dreaming, I immediately got very excited and woke up.)
...I’ve had some pretty complicated dreams, where I’ve woken up from a dream(!), gone to work, made coffee, had discussions about the previous dream, had thoughts about the morality or immorality of the dream, then sometime later come to a conclusion that something was out of place(I’m not wearing pants?!) then woken up to realize that I was dreaming. I’ve had nested dreams a good couple of layers deep with this sort of thing going on.
That said I think you have something there, though. Sometimes I wake up (Dream or otherwise) and I remember my dream really vividly, especially when I awake suddenly, due to an alarm clock or something
But I’ve never had a dream that I struggled to remember what was in my dream inside of my dream. At the least, such an activity should really raise my priors that I’m toplevel.
One method to check if you’re dreaming is to hold your nose shut and try to breathe through it—if you’re dreaming, your nose will work “normally”, whereas if you’re awake actual physics will take effect. (Note: every time I’ve done this while dreaming, I immediately got very excited and woke up.)