Is this a dream?

Recently I've been having dreams in which I wake up multiple times. This morning I woke up twice and now feel unsure whether or not I'm still dreaming. I told some family about my concern and they brushed it off. I'm worried that people will hurt me now that I know this is a dream. If that's not the case, I feel that I may have been selected to be part of a research group to find how to escape the dreams. I was recently diagnosed as schizoaffective and am taking abilify and effexor. I'm not sure what to think.

Unless I'm a dream, which I'm not, you're not dreaming. That's a delusion you're experiencing. It's part of Schizoaffective Disorder. Hopefully, with the right medication, you can stop experiencing them.

You're not dreaming and you're not part of a research group. However, psychosis, from my experience, can feel very dreamlike. So, it may even be the case that your brain is mimicking a dreamstate through how it is communicating within itself - I'm not sure on that one but it certainly sounds possible.

So my advice is to understand that yes you are still part of the "real" world, and that hopefully in time these feelings of being in a dream will pass. In the meantime, try not to do anything stupid, like you would if you really were in a dream!