Dreams within a dream.

I only had this happen a few times, but recently it was the most vivid ever. It's made me think of how deel the levels of consciousness and reality can get.

About a month ago I had a close friend die in an extremely terrible way. I was dreaming we were in my grandparents basement, which is where many of us would hang out back when we were 10. We all were just chatting, and everything was fine. Then randomly I became sentient of reality and remember looking him in the eyes and saying "Wait, are you ok? Then I realized I was inside a dream and everything wasn't real. It freaked me out so badly I started to scream, but nothing came out and everything was silent. This is identical to what I experience during sleep paralysis, except in this situation I was completely inside a dream. Then I opened my eyes and woke up, except I was in a completely different dream. I was breathing heavy in the dream, and actually though I back in the real world. I was on the floor, and in a room that made no sense. Then I started walking, and my mind started to crack the code on the perception of reality, dreams, and consciousness. In that dream I was deeply thinking about the layers of reality, which is crazy to even be able to attempt to articulate while dreaming. It's the first time in my life I actually though I was in the real world, even though I was still dreaming. The whole time I was walking and thinking I could hear voices, even know there were no people. My mom was one of them. I kept walking till I found a bed. It has no blanket or pillow, just a green sheet which I instantly knew was my dead friends childhood bed. I remember it clearly from many sleep overs because his favorite color was green, and he even influenced me in ways where it became my favorite color too. I remember still hearing voices and random conversation all around me, and thought to myself "I'm just going to rest my eyes for a bit." Then fell asleep inside my dream, and it drifted of to normal random dreams I would typically have.

So now I'm like how many layers are there? Is it truly infinite, it is there a limit? I feel dreams have taken me places that constantly blow my mind and perception of reality as a whole.

I almost hesitated to post after reading given my sn but, take that for what it is I guess. I don't know what exactly made me decide to log in here today.

I've only ever fallen asleep in a dream, but I don't think I had a dream in that dream. I clearly recall leaning against the person sitting on my right, our arms looped over each other's shoulders, leaning against each other. Then drifting off to sleep. I woke up in the dream like omg, uh oh, and then woke up in reality.