Hello! I've had a strange false awakening nightmare 3 times, and wonder if it could mean anything or if anyone had a translation idea. It gets pretty terrifying and I feel like I'm stuck forever.

Basically, I go to bed and fall asleep. Next, in the dream, I wake up in my bed, everything is the same nothing is changed, I literally think I am awake, no question. I reach to turn on my the light, but it does not turn on. I grab my phone, also in same spot I put it before I went to bed, but it does not light up. I realize it is a dream, and go back to bed hoping to wake up in real life. I wake up again in the dream, light.. nope, phone.. nope. It happens several times over and over, and I feel trapped like I will never get out. Last night I looped so many times, and got so frustrated that I threw my lamp in the dream, another time my phone haha. It was so real. It always is.

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This happened once in my dorm, and again a few months before that. No matter the location, I wake up in the dream, how I fell asleep. The same thing, the light won't turn on, then my phone won't light up. I've left the room before, in need of comfort, to go to my friend who lived upstairs, but realized I was still dreaming, and hopelessly went back to bed in attempts to wake up. Last night, in the dream, I left my room to go to my parents downstairs, walked down my hallway, halfway down the stairs, and saw the living room was a bit 'stretched' in a sense, again, go back to my room thinking 'what can I do'. Everything is spot on, Im completely aware. Last night in about two awakenings, I woke up under my comforter and my pink sheet, but I went to bed under the pink sheet only, that told me I was still trapped.

There are no monsters, weird shapes/shadows, or entities. The closest thing to it was hearing a mouse drag a trash bag in my room once. At the time, I did have a trash bag and I would hear a mouse sometimes. We live near the woods, so we get critters. Nothing out of the ordinary. Its a nightmare because Im scared in my dream, the light won't turn on, its kinda dark, and Im trapped in a real life dream. Maybe Im scared something will happen, but nothing ever does.

Waking up in real life has never been so amazing. My phone, where its been this whole time, actually lights up, my light turns on when I turn the knob from my bed. I know Im awake, I stay awake for a few hours before going back to sleep. Back to normal.

Any ideas why this happens once in a while? I used the zen app to meditate before bed, Im not sure what triggers these nightmares. Thank you all!

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