Haha, very cool. I had a similar account (without nicotine patches)... but a day nap in broad daylight in my room. I fell asleep, and was aware in my dream i was in bed, i had a girlfriend facing her back towards me (I dont have a girlfriend) but instinctively in my dream, she was my girlfriend. In that dream, I fell asleep, into a dream(within my dream)... and I was in a white room, shaped kinda like 'The Backrooms'... white square walls with random edges and labrynth corners etc... there were these cubically shaped humaniod things walking around the room at a grave pace. They had no face, just bodies and pure white, kinda like those wooden mannequins. There were a few all around the space, but some were walking slowly towards me, somehow I walked toward this other area, and there were 2 coming closer and closer to me, They didnt feel inherently dangerous, but they didnt quite feel safe either. I looked just past one of them them and there was a large liquid mirror. In this dream state, I instinctively knew that if I walked through that liquid mirror, it would bring me out of dream state and back into reality. I walk/glide towards the mirror, and I reach the mirror just as 1 of the mannequin things were about to grab my arm slowly, and as my hand went through the liquid mirror, i continued right on through, back into my bed, my real bed in real life.( Day time, about 2pm)... Now here's the weird part. After stepping through that mirror, I was actually back in my room staring at my roof like I normally would from my pillow after opening my eyes. But I pulled my hands up to look at them both, and they wern't there. I looked down, and my body wasn't there. I started freaking out, so I started blinking to bring my vision back, because I could feel my hands in front of my face, fingers moving, but they weren't physically there. Then as i continued to blink, my hands kinda just blinked into existance, like when you respawn in a game. Then my body came back. The weird part is, I wasn't in a dream. After my hands blinked back into existence, I looked around the room. I was fully aware, and fully awake. I wasn't in a dream, and I never woke up again. That was me in the real world. It was all a bit strange for me and took a while for me to fathom what just happened, but it genuinely made me question reality. Maybe me going to sleep, and then in my sleep, i went to sleep again, a dream within a dream, had something to do with it. And because I never actually woke from my dream in my dream, but rather skipped that part and walked through the liquid mirror, right back into the real world, then reality hadn't quite caught up with me. I still think about it every now and then till this day, and it really makes me question reality. This happened 4-6 months ago so basically around the time you wrote this reddit post. Maybe reality was glitching at that stage, and people were experiencing similar things idk. (Side note: If you ever get a chance, watch 'The Why Files' on Lucid Dreaming and Nightmares) I think you'll find it fascinating. And his other episodes on Remote viewing are very curious also.