a dream within a dream?

synopsis:
experiencing an episode of sleep paralysis in between deep sleeps

3:24am
I’m trying to memorize a pattern that’s seemingly new to me every night
Every night my body fails to fall asleep
Fearing the moment it wakes up

3:35am (stage 1)
I hallucinated someone knocking on my bedroom door
I still haven’t figured who it is
But my body can’t keep up with the very fact that someone might be in my room
Or trying to stabilize my irregular breaths
that I finally shut my eyes
exhausting myself by questioning if I should fear it or not

3:55am (stage 2)
I’m floating in the shores of my nerve signals
Still aware that I might be watched

4:10am( stage 3)
I slowly sink
An orange aura blinds my vision
Sound is a foreign sensation to me
i feel everything though

4:24 (stage 4 NREM)
I’m swimming in a monochromatic ambiance
carrying a staircase as a backpack
A carousel crowning my head
My silleheuotte mirroring that of an angel’s

4:55am (stage 3)
I go from a float to a sink
To a flight
My breaths equally as confused
Equally as rapid

5:10am (stage 2)
I wake up to an accelerating sensation
My heart rapidly thumping
I sit back
Take a deep a breath
Grab my phone
A blue light flashes and says that it’s 4:51
I answer back to a few texts
And attempt to fall back into sleep

5:35am (stage 1 REM)
I fall asleep faster than the first attempt
The same figure that was knocking previously clouds my eyes
I grow hopeful that it may be someone I know
The figure tries to grab my shoulders trying to wake me up
My eyes are open
Seemingly open
My body fails to get up
My breaths also fail to understand what’s happening
I slowly try to regulate my breaths
And close my eyes

5:36am
I wake up
slightly confused as to what i was experiencing exactly
If it was a dream within a dream
or if it was just a mere figment of a distant memory…