I have always found dreaming a fascinating subject. I think dream research is key to unlocking data about consciousness. However, it is one of those areas of research where there is a very low signal to noise ratio.

In the past year I have had a very vivid class of dream that I don't recall ever experiencing earlier in my life. I don't know if there is a technical term for it but I call it a "nested dream". This is a dream that I apparently wake up from, retrospect about the dream but am, in fact, waking up into another dream. I am not talking about simply transitioning from one dream to another but actual dreaming, dreaming about waking up from that dream, things occurring in the new "dream stack frame", and then ultimately really waking up and remembering details from both frames.

I use the notion of a stack loosely since there is no remembrance of pushing down from dream 1 to dream 2 but rather there is the remembrance of popping out of 2 and into 1.

Has anyone experienced a similar kind of dream?