Sometimes I dream that I am falling in my sleep. The sensation is very real, as if you are really falling from a building. I know for certain that I have never experienced something like this in real life. So how is it possible for me to know how it feels to fall off a building (in the dream)?
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Rovon is right, falling is also the most common type of dream, followed by being chased or followed. Other dreams have signs too. If you dream about having no teeth or getting them knocked out, it means that youre concerned about your apperance and the way ou look. Its amazing how the human mind works to you through dreams, isnt it?
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this is natural and normal  Dream and fear, there's several possibilities as to why you dreamed this dream... i could not begin to speculate based on the information you provided.. what you dream is secondary to the state of affairs you are presently in or going/leaving from.\nthat is a better indicator of reasons for the fear..\nit is said that we have several tools to help aide us such as feeling that you are being watched and you look around and see that you are... we feel/sense  others eyes on us. or feeling that a situation/place/person/event is "right" or "not right" (intuition) i believe that the dream is another sense that we use... you i believe have the answer... there is no question without an answer... your answer is probably right (99%) chance, because you analyzed your dream yourself (answered your question..\nmay i suggest that you take control over your dream  it is possible to dream what you want to dream.. with practice..\ntry thinking of clouds before you go to sleep, water, landscape,\nthese are the easiest to get you started.. then focus on what you would like to dream about (it takes time) but you can and will focus your subconscious on your conscience thoughts/images.\n\nsorry to b so long winded.. this is vital and a tool that we seldom use. and its for our peace
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I had an out of body experience.  I floated above my body and watched my friends try to wake me up.  They were yelling at me to breathe and I was alright after a short time.  When I came down, I realized what a low existence we live in.  Reality is a very low existence.  It's hard to put in words.....)(
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I usually remember what I dreamed about most nights.  Some nights it's really silly and fun to recount.  As I'm waking up more now, the details of last night's dream are beginning to fade.  But I do remember one thing.  I was shopping for a new mattress that doesn't shake around when my husband gets up, sits on the side of the bed, and works his socks on.  Man!  He makes an earthquake in the morning!  It's probably the dream I was having WHILE he was putting his socks on.\n\nAnyway, I like this question.  I wouldn't mind answering it every day!\n\n:)
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I'd definitely pick to have my flying dream again.  I've had it more than once and can remember some of the details, but mostly, I could feel myself flying.  I'm kind of scared of heights...not so much of being high up, but of being high up and not secured to something.  I remember the actualy feeling of being in the air, looking down and getting light in my stomach.  I eventually taught myself how to fly.  It required a thought process, and if I stopped the process, I'd fall, though I never hit the ground.  It makes you feel like you can take over the world when you wake up.
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hmmm, good question....\n\nMaybe because it seems to be in a constant state of falling.
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I actually had a dream that my family moved and it was a terrible dream and a bad situation.  We had just moved about a week before, so I blew it off.  About a month later my husband lost his job for something stupid and we moved.  When we got to the house we got our U-haul stuck in the mud in our yard and at some point I was looking at the U-haul and the house, and it was just the same as in my dream.  It didn't make me feel ant better knowing that I had dreamt it.  Best wishes
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dreams show what your really feeling inside.try this website.\nhttp://dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/
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The answer to what your dreams mean lies with yourself.  Ask yourself what waves mean to you.  Do you like the water or are you afraid of drowning perhaps.  How do you feel in the dream? Are you overtaken by the waves or are you riding high on them and enjoying it.  If you are overtaken then maybe you feel "swamped" by something in your life.  If you are enjoying the surf then you may feel on top of the world.\n\nNo one else can tell you what a particular image in a dream means because it comes from your head.  The meaning is only relevant to you and no one else.\n\nDreams are left over thoughts from the day and may have no meaning at all, just the mind amusing itself or it may be trying to tell you something and only you would know that answer.
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When I dream, I don't just see things, I also feel them.  I remember dreams that I've tasted food, felt pain, smelled flowers, and heard noises.  I would imagine that in a blind person's dreams, that is how they dream, the same way they experience the world.
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your dreams speak of things in real life\n\nseems like you feel someone is holding you back and your fighting to get ahead, and when asking for help know one answers or cant seem to help you
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I have had reoccurring dreams of a plane crash.  I am never on the plane, but I see it, know it will crash and I just watch it happen.  The plane always comes in at angle with one wing pointed down, and that wing hits the ground first.  The crash is always very firey, and as I watch I know there is nothing I can do.  In the dream I always just stand there looking at the fire and wreckage.
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I can sometimes do that.  If I'm dreaming and know I'm dreaming, I'll lower my inhibitions a bit and just let myself go because I know it's "not real".  (i.e., if it's a "happy" dream and I want to go through with it because I know there won't be any consequences because it's "just a dream")\nAnd I have woken up from a dream and wanted to go back to resume my dream.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  If I am not "fully awake" and I focus on the dream and where I was, I can resume it.  If I wake up fully and try to go back to sleep to resume it, it doesn't usually work...\n\nInteresting question...
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This sounds like a phenomenon called sleep paralysis.  When you are in deep sleep, especially REM sleep when you are dreaming, your body goes into a partial paralytic state.  Most of your voluntary motions are paralyzed to keep you from acting out your dreams.  Occasionally, some people wake up mentally before their body gets the signal to wake up.  You become mentally aware and awake again, but your body is lagging behind in that partial paralysis.  It typically lasts for only a few minutes at most.  Most people report that it is a terrifying experience; they have no idea what is going on and can't move.  This can result in tremendous anxiety about trying to fall asleep, and often creates panic attacks.\n\nApparently, this condition is not harmful to you in anyway, except for the emotional trauma.  The next time it happens, stay calm.  Think to yourself that you are just in a different physiological state, one that few people ever encounter.  It will pass after a few minutes, and you should feel normal again.  Try to relax and let it run its course.  By understanding what is happening, you can be assure that you have no reason to panic.  Its just one of those little things you'll learn to cope with.\n\nYou can talk to a doctor if you want, but they probably won't do much if anything about it.  They will probably just give you a prescription for anxiety.  I encourage you to do some more research and look at online communities of other people with sleeping disorders for people who share your problem.  They will help you find ways to minimize the impact.\n\nAs for the connection of this with your uncle's death, I'm at a loss.  There may be some spiritual explanation for that as well.
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A Balloon in the Wind.  Because that's what I feel like sometimes.  Like I'm just floating from place to place, from event to event, not really effecting anything, not effected by anything.  I just exist.
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No, it is not surreal.\n\nAnd as bizarre as it may sound, you don't have any sensation of falling, or of how high you are.\n\nWhen you are in freefall, the only sensation of movement you have is the wind blowing past your face; you feel as if you are floating.   As you gaze out at your surroundings (in my case, the Mojave Desert in California) you realize that you are above it all, but it isn't rushing at you at breakneck speed.\n\nWhen you open the chute at about 5,000 feet, the noise stops, and you slowly coast down to the ground.\n\nYou should give it a try; you'll be glad you did.
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Yes and yes.\n\nWhen you actually fall asleep, your body  enters a state that effectively paralyzes you so you do not get up and act out your dreams (the same state malfunctions in some people leading to "sleep walking" and other "wakeful" sleep disorders).\n\nHaving the "jerk" reaction is caused because the body has not reached the phase of sleep where you are unable to move but you may have already "drifted" and started to dream, so for example, if you dream you are falling, you will instinctively move, but because you are so relaxed, you do not jump right out of bed.  You just sort of kick out or twitch instead.\n\nI hate it when that happens because it wakes me up and takes forever to fall asleep again!