(This really happened.)

The other night I had a weird dream. Scratch that: two weird dreams. A weird dream INSIDE another weird dream.

Maybe I should start from the middle.

So I had a lucid dream. I don’t actually remember what I did in this dream, just that I could control the whole world, in a lucid-like manner. I don’t think I’ve ever had a lucid dream before, at least not one I remembered afterwards.

Then I woke up. I remember speaking to someone about how I had just had a lucid dream. Don’t remember who, just that it was someone.

Then I woke up. After I woke up, I realized that I had not, in fact, had a lucid dream at all. My mind had just decided that I did, while in the first level, and since I was dreaming then, it wasn’t hard to convince my dreaming self that my memories of my previous dream fit my preconceived notions of what lucid dreaming felt like; but that justification vanished as soon as I reflected upon waking.

The problem is that I only had two levels. My understanding of Inception (always uncertain) says there should be three. So am I still dreaming? Should I be worried about someone trying to insert arbitrary information into my head?