Why does it hurt when I dream while awake?

[CFTraveler]

The nausea might have something to do with your position and the fact that you're trying to focus 'inside' intently. It may be throwing off your sense of balance, which combines ear fluid and your sense of where the horizon is, and in some people this triggers nausea.
Try something different: Change your position to where you can feel your body being supported, and tense your buttocks when you feel the nausea. Also, don't try to see- instead work on a visualization that you go to before going blank- something pleasant, and focus your attention on the scene, until you feel relaxed enough, and then switch to 'observe' in front of your eyes- but the minute you find yourself trying to focus on the scene that presents, go to the visualization after you have 'seen'.

[Saturn]

The nausea might have something to do with your position and the fact that you're trying to focus 'inside' intently. It may be throwing off your sense of balance, which combines ear fluid and your sense of where the horizon is, and in some people this triggers nausea.
Try something different: Change your position to where you can feel your body being supported, and tense your buttocks when you feel the nausea. Also, don't try to see- instead work on a visualization that you go to before going blank- something pleasant, and focus your attention on the scene, until you feel relaxed enough, and then switch to 'observe' in front of your eyes- but the minute you find yourself trying to focus on the scene that presents, go to the visualization after you have 'seen'.

Can you explain more about the visualization before going blank part? How would that work if you personally were doing it?

I tried again this morning and I noticed that it was easier this time, but I was also having a dream within a dream within a dream... So my attempt to trigger a scene was in the second dream. I get up and check my right eye in my bathroom mirror because there's been something wrong with it since childhood and it was feeling dry. My reflection looks like a different person and my eye was like a red vortex.
I wake up and I'm laying in my bed. I hear a fly buzzing around my head so I pull the blanket over my face so it wont land on me. Then my hand touches something that feels like a card. I get out of bed and I see that I was surrounded by a bunch of cards on the mattress. I start picking up the cards to put them away, and then I wake up for real this time.