Published dream diary · English · released source text

A Dream within Another Dream

Nathalie Regard

101-nights -sleep and dream study night 024 (2023) · DREAMS section, Night 24; all recalled sections in this source-night entry, before the separate Day-by-Day waking log.

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I recall a dream: I feel, my commitment to writing my dreams is courageous. This helps me to move forward.

A mixture of two dream states. When lying on a bed, I recognize it is my mother's house in Chile. For several weeks, I have been uncommunicative in this room working with the electrodes, and in this sense, she has been patient and supportive.

A new feeling shows up. What am I doing here? I ask myself. I would rather be with my mom! I have not even seen her! My poor mother! Should I suggest having dinner together?

Quickly I hear she comes down into the bathroom in my room. On the bed, still inside my dream, I draw circles. From far away I hear when she enters the room.

When she intends to wake me up, the

exhaustion keeps me motionless. From that state, however, I manage to connect and communicate with my mother to tell her that I cannot wake up.

She is understanding and knows that resting is vital for me, so she leaves the room. When she is gone, I'm still asleep as well as partially awake inside the dream, I remain in a mixed state, here and there. I'm in a dream within another dream.

In my own room in the studio, as I lie now on my bed, I am able to see the outside entrance through the reflection of the windowpane. It is a scene in the street in which someone stands in front of the metal curtain.

My silent in-dreams voice shouts “[person A]! [person A]!”

Source & context

A published self-diary by Nathalie Regard in 101 nights, co-created with Guillaume Dumas. Released English text; original language/translator not stated. Recalled sections from one source night stay grouped. Statements about people, health and events describe dreams, not verified facts or diagnoses. Not a Synastry community submission.

Nathalie Regard (dreamer, diarist and recorder); Guillaume Dumas (project co-creator). 101-nights -sleep and dream study night 024. Zenodo, 2023. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7787312. CC BY 4.0. Synastry added navigation metadata, normalized linewraps and visibly bracketed changes; no new dream narrative or translation.

Only the source-night ordinal is used. The metadata publication year is not a dream date; month/day source headings are not promoted to an exact calendar date. No real-world personal location is inferred.

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DREAMS section, Night 24; all recalled sections in this source-night entry, before the separate Day-by-Day waking log.

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Private references are visibly bracketed; any omitted no-recall preface or source recording/metadata heading is explicitly bracketed. Paragraph linewraps normalized. Title/themes/scene description are editorial navigation additions; no new narrative or translation.

Released English source wording retained with documented visible privacy substitutions and bracketed source-marker omissions; paragraph linewraps folded. No assertion of original language or translator.

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