I once dreamt that I was dreaming. Then I woke up in the dream and I was like "Whoa...that was one CRAZY dream." And then I wake up for real and I'm like "...OK, that was weird..."
These ones are kind of funny. I have them too. I usually realise I'm alseep when I try to switch on my bed-side lamp to get up to go to the toilet, but it won't switch on. That always means I'm still actually in the dream.
My most recent and interesting was not really frightening or anything, it was just peculiar. I joined a couple of friends to a place in a busy city, in an old but fancy building, just outside an old monument. They were very enthusiastic saying that I should meet this guy they'd met who I've never met before.
So, we met this guy in the basement to the building. They guy and this woman talk about spiritual development and awakening a lot on a dark, relaxed atmosphere, and a lot of new-age spiritualist stuff. They guy talks about certain 'means' of fast spiritual awakening. I start to get uneasy about the situation and I tell them all I don't want to take part in this 'thing' that apparently speeds up spiritual awakening but really I didn't buy it at all and I told them I was going to leave and not have anything to do with it.
The guy was like "that's too late, you're already involved" or something like that. Turns out his 'means' was via this drug that I never found out what it was. I felt it kicking in and I was like "how did you...?" because I never drank anything and he never injected me with anything so I don't know how he got the drug in me. I started to get shaky, feeling hot and cold, sweaty, dry mouth, feeling sick, rapid heart beat, breathing fast, mind racing with trippy thoughts and panicky feelings and I was really angry that he'd done this without telling me too.
Then I started to trip out in a bad way and I tripped out on the sofa for a while and my shaking was really bad. Then I kind of woke back up on the sofa some time later and everybody had left the room, I was still feeling the full effects of this drug and my mind was all over the place. I also felt like my heart was going to explode out my chest, it was almost painful how fast it was drumming away. Everything also had a crispness about it, like the sharpness of the picture was turned up, and like dream-reality was overlapped with something else, hallucinations. It's hard to explain. I just didn't feel aware of my surroundings at all and the only thing I was aware of was that there was something wrong with my senses and functions. I was just in a trance, thinking I was in other strange places, and kept losing track of where I was.
I followed some people outside, I guess they were taking me somewhere but I don't know where or why. We ended up in the street under some scaffolding, and the shop front was empty, just bare concrete inside and no glass on the windows. I was hearing voices coming from inside the empty, bare shop front but there was nobody there.
I looked to see some guy standing in the street, raising his arms and waving them in the air and smiling as though he was totally out of it in his own little world.
I remember having enough sense at least to think to myself that this was all a big scam and there was nothing spiritually enlightening about the experience. It just felt damaging.
When I finally woke up, I was feeling really sick and had a thumping headache and a fever. I nearly threw up. I took some flu tablets. I think I had that strange dream because I was feeling ill in my sleep. You know how fever sometimes makes you a bit delirious and hallucinate and have weird dreams.