look at me, and tell me if you've known me before

you keep having dreams where something humiliating or terrible happens to you. every time you have a dream like this, you are aware that it is a dream, so you try really hard to wake up. one night, you have this dream and you try to wake up, and you do. but it turns out that your waking up is just another dream, and something humiliating/terrible happens there, and you try to wake up for real, and you think you have. but it just turns out to be another dream and so on, so you’re never sure when you’ve really woken up.