When it gets to the point where you are close to waking up but you can feel that it's still too early so you don't even open your eyes to attempt to continue sleeping for a bit longer and feel yourself drift back into sleep, that's what was going on this one day but something unusual happened right after.
At first it felt like something on my back as I was laying on the side, I was still attempting to fall back into sleep I thought so I just moved my back a little so it would stop itching or whatever it was, a few seconds later I felt it. A hand, as real as a hand on your back could ever feel, first the whole palm on your back then slowly scratching your back while lifting the hand away. "What the fuck is going on?" Usually when I dream and something as weird as this happens I realize quickly I am in a dream and become lucid, either choose to wake up or take control of the scenario but this was different, this felt as real as anything ever could. Yet I couldn't move, the hand movement occurred for only a couple seconds but I felt as I was in shock, didn't even open my eyes just laid there and things stated racing in my head. "How is this possible?" The odds of someone being under my bed are practically 0, even if by the off chance someone happened to be there why would they give themselves away by literally scratching my back? Why am I overthinking about all of this instead of getting the fuck up and checking what was going on. I stayed for a bit longer in the same position and attempted to hear any sounds. Nothing.
Finally I got up in a quick move and checked under the bed, nothing. It was already morning and there was sunlight, would've been even more stupid to pull something off like that. I knew it wasn't my roommate cause he would've made noise moving in and back out of my room even if I hadn't heard him come in, so I walk into the living room and see him awake drinking coffee and I tell him "dude, I think I'm losing my mind or must be hallucinating or something, I felt someone touch my back while sleeping and it could not have been a dream because it felt even more real than lucid dreaming".
His reaction to it was off, almost as if he hadn't heard what I said and just continued talking about something else random, didn't take me long until I realized that I was dreaming now and woke up. After waking up I spent a good few minutes going through what the fuck had just happened, and I am still not sure but the only conclusion I came to was that I must've been dreaming within a dream and for some reason the second dream felt more real than anything I had ever experienced before. I've had one of these double dreams once but it was a very long time ago and only happened that one time and back then it didn't include the sensation of touch.
Really weird though, I would've bet anything that I was either going crazy or that the touch was real but never would I have been able to guess that it was a dream within a dream, at the time of it happening at least. What a nice dream within a dream combined with sleep paralysis to wake up to.
Anyone ever experienced something similar?