like the protagonist in Gogol's Portrait

i hate dreams 
inside dreams 
to wake in a dream 
to confirm the other 
is true to only wake up 
and realize both were but a fragment 
of my imagination 
such stuff is made 
to madden the curls 
on my hair, to question 
my very existence and that of the person 
who wakes to tell me - he had a dream about a lesson 
what the lesson was well...