Dreams Within Dreams  I'm on a metro bus in Oak Valley. We're doing part of the loop around Home Avenue, Main Street, and 3rd Street, Last Avenue, and 2nd Street. I have my luggage with me, and am going home. I realize that I don't remember the flights to Los Angeles and to Metropolis. I can't remember traveling to get back home, even though I'm about to arrive. I ask several young boys on the bus where we are and how long we've been driving. They don't seem to know. I touch my surroundings to see if they are real: there are considerable inconsistencies that cause me to question my state of consciousness. I do not detect anything physically unusual. At one point I think I point at a car to see the energy in it, as Don Juan taught Carlos Castaneda, but I see nothing usual about the car.  I'm with my brother Wally and another man. I seem to be sleeping and dreaming, and then awake, drifting between sleep and wakefulness. I am on the verge of lucidity, and I try not to wake up; I try to maintain my lucidity in the dream (the dream within this dream). I test the reality of the situation by biting something and pounding/punching the floor to see if my hand/arm goes through. The floor is hard, and I conclude I'm not dreaming. I try to will my arm to go through the floor, moving it slowly, steadily, and firmly, but I can't pass it through the floor. I then awaken and find myself with the two men, who are laughing at me. I've been biting onto the toe of one of their shoes and pounding the floor with my fist. I think that those actions are incompatible with the atonia of REM, but I think that my body twitches in REM somehow caused this action or was the action. I'm outside on the front lawn at home in Oak Valley on the north side of the steps near the light. I try to write down the dream of the pounding and biting on the grass using a pen. I don't write the dream down completely, or clearly. It's hard to write on grass and rock/concrete. There is a group of women around, including my high school classmate Marybeth Neumann and others. They talk about dreams. I experience a dream [within this dream I'm now writing] in which there is a question of reality and dreaming: A dream within a dream within a dream.