[ryan]

Recently I had a dream where I was sitting at my desk. I realized I was dreaming, but as soon as I did, everything began to fade and I couldn't keep the dream in focus. I woke up, or so I thought, and had a dream that seemed as real as everyday life. What got me thinking is while in this dream I had all the mental faculties I would in normal waking life: I could analyze, reflect, reason, in fact I was reflecting on my dream of sitting at my desk that I had just had. I then had the same dream again (of sitting at my desk) and again realized I was dreaming, and the dream faded, as in the first time, and I had another false awakening. It was like the event happend twice.

On Oct 10 when I first posted under this topic, I was trying to get a discussion going along these lines. Dreams that don't fit nicely into any catagory. In this case, by definition, I didn't have dreaming attention during the false awakening because I didn't know I was dreaming. But that was the only component that was missing, I still had that "residue" of attention that Don Juan was talking about. And it came sandwiched between a dream that I did have minimal instance of dreaming attention, I wonder if there is any connection? Does anyone have similar experiences with dreams like these? Dreams with missing components. Do you think they serve a specific pupose from the standpoint of our path?