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Nested Dreams, Blurring True and False

April 5, 2026·Confused

This dream was originally written in Simplified Chinese.

Translations are AI-generated and may not capture every nuance.

I had a very complex dream. Basically, every time I had a dream I would wake up, but that wasn't a real awakening. I was still asleep, but I thought I had genuinely woken up, and then I would use my phone to record the dream. Halfway through, I realized I didn't seem to have ever woken up. Then I thought, the previous dreams were just too weird. I thought I had woken up again, but in reality, I still hadn't. Then I used my phone to record all my previous dreams once more, felt relieved, and went back to sleep again. Then I had another very, very long dream, a completely chaotic dream. This dream had absolutely no logic, and I don't remember it very clearly either. It was roughly like, one second I was in a cave, and the next second I ran into a flower; one moment I was clearly fighting someone, and the next second I was inexplicably chatting with them.

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