Lucid dreaming and dream-within-a-dream: anyone else ever do this? [View All]

[AlienGirl]

I just woke up from a really great dream that had some surprising features, and wonder if anyone's heard of or done this before.

The dream started with me going to bed, falling asleep, and beginning a secondary dream within the first. In the secondary dream, I was on the set of a documentary in Africa, watching lions. I was thinking how interesting it would be to pet one of the lions, and then suddenly I realized that since I was only dreaming this, I could! I called the lions over to me and had them head-bump and rub against me like domestic cats. Their fur was more dense and wiry than a domestic cat, and felt "dusty." As I was dreaming this, I was aware that I was asleep and dreaming. Eventually I woke from the secondary dream into the primary dream, of just being in bed, and I tried to say something, but was unable to talk because I couldn't move my mouth. This made me aware that I was still asleep in the real world, so I woke up for real.

Now, I've had lucid dreams before, and I've had dreams-within-dreams before, but I haven't ever heard of a dream-within-a-dream becoming lucid! Has anyone else here ever had anything like this happen, or know of a case where it happened?

Tucker