why is it thatwhen you fall in a dream you jump in your sleep?
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When you are experiencing a dream your body will try to simulate the experience. That might explain why if you have a bad you toss and turn.
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Because,when you're falling asleep,every muscle in your body relaxes.Sometimes your muscles are so uptight that they spasm as they start to relax...
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WHAT IS LUCID DREAMING?\n\nLucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden  who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Lucidity usually begins in the midst of a dream when the dreamer realizes that the experience is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. Often this realization is triggered by the dreamer noticing some impossible or unlikely occurrence in the dream, such as flying or meeting the deceased. Sometimes people become lucid without noticing any particular clue in the dream; they just suddenly realize they are in a dream. A minority of lucid dreams (according to the research of LaBerge and colleagues, about 10 percent) are the result of returning to REM (dreaming) sleep directly from an awakening with unbroken reflective consciousness.\n\nThe basic definition of lucid dreaming requires nothing more than becoming aware that you are dreaming. However, the quality of lucidity can vary greatly. When lucidity is at a high level, you are aware that everything experienced in the dream is occurring in your mind, that there is no real danger, and that you are asleep in bed and will awaken shortly. With low-level lucidity you may be aware to a certain extent that you are dreaming, perhaps enough to fly or alter what you are doing, but not enough to realize that the people are dream representations, or that you can suffer no physical damage, or that you are actually in bed.
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When I was 3 or 4 yrs old I had a reoccuring dream that I was running on top of a grain elevator and I fell to the ground. Sometimes I would wake up and other times I would hit the ground and roll into a pre-dug grave but I wasn't dead. Than I definitely would wake up sweating. Thanks a lot for that one. Now I am scared to go to sleep. I want my Mommy.
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this is called sleep paralysis.  it happens when your mind wakes up faster than your body, and it is still stuck in sleep mode.. paralyzed so that you don't act out your dreams.  you will find this almsot always happens near the morning rather than earlier in the night, and you will usually be sleeping in a position with your back flat on the bed.    it is indeed scary, whenever this happens to me, i try screaming and am unable to, i also feel like i am suffocating sometimes because i try to breathe and it doesn't come regular
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You are in a between wake and sleep state and everything you are dreaming feels real. Happens to a lot of people my son fights in his sleep and swears he hurts in the morning.\n\nthey said its normal
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Dreams are the subconscious minds' method of acting out possible scenarios in our own lives. There have been experiments into sleep deprivation...dreaming occurs during the REM (rapid-eye-movement) cycle and at this point the body is paralysed, all apart from breathing equipment and the eyes. This is to stop the body physically acting out its dreams. Nightmares occur when the dreams basically overlap into the non-REM cycle (non-rapid-eye-movement), it is at this point that people sleep walk or talk.\nDuring these experiments, participants were woken as soon as they fell into REM sleep (dream sleep), this stopped them from having dreams. Participants reported that they felt as if they had had no sleep, they eventually started having hallucinations...the body was having dreams during the period that they were awake, they overlapped into the conscious mind, such was the physical need to have dreams.\nNo-one actually knows why people (and animals) have dreams, but researchers have acknowledged their significance in human evolution.
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this sounds like sleep paralysis sweetie ...it isn't a ghost or anything like that\nwhat happens is that at the point of dream sleep the body releases hormones so that we dont act out our dreams \nsometimes this is released too early or we wake during it\nthis can bring about some waking dreams and we cant move during the experience\nplease look up sleep paralysis and hypnagogic state \nand please dont worry xx
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this dream suggests that your actions are disconnected from your emotions.
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Because when you're vividly dreaming your brain really isn't switched off like it is during light or no dreaming.  Your body may be rested but your brain is still tired.\n\nMy mother had a dream one time that the new beanie babies came out and she was going from store to store looking for this particular one that she had to get for my sister.  She woke up in a pool of sweat and was sooo exhausted that she had to call off work.
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that's a good observation. The shock occurs because of the discharge of neurotransmitters (chemicals that neurons use to communicate with one another) that occurs just prior to falling asleep. People believe this has something to do with paralyzing us---so we don't act out our dreams.
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Resist the feelings in your dreams, you will hear a whistle high tone, almost insupportable. Then you become real in your dream, knowing you are dreaming too. the smallest hesitation can alarm your dream, keep cool, then in your dream you can do whatever you want. You can even come out of your body to see yourself asleep, and go wherever you may want to go, you may see things that you always wanted to see, people, places, situations, you may even fly to other worlds, see Hell, see dead people, people you haven't seen before in your life, can talk to you, can solve puzzles, problems, invent, seek hidden objects, you will be completely in a different world the world of dreams, you can do sex with whoever you want to and wet yourself, you can see the past but not the future, remember always in your dream that the little hesitation alarms off your dream, so seeing things getting on the edge; like an unknown vision that you might think is going to bring you harm, could wake you up immediately in a split second of the horror scene.\nSo, Good luck.
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I read somewhere that it is because you are not positioned well while sleeping, so then the nightmare happens so you will wake up and move.
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To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel for a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life. For an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle with all your might to gain some object and then see some friend lose property of the same value in aiding your cause. \n\nTo see others dying, forebodes general ill luck to you and to your friends. \n\nTo see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry. Bad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines. \nTo dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you. Fortune will turn against you. \nThe meaning of blood in a dream, no matter what form the dream is in, always symbolizes caution. Watch out for enemies, strangers and others who may wish to cause you discredit. \n\nMoney - Represents one's values in life. It may symbolize self worth. In exchanging money, it may represent changes about to happen in your life. Take note of any numbers and find their meaning(s). For instance, five often symbolizes changes in life.\n\nPeople - Most often represents the different aspects of oneself; emotions, attitudes, desires, fears, etc. look to the particular characteristics of a person or persons in the dream.\n\nthats all i can tell u hope it helps!!!
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dreams are just means to release stress or solve some internal problems or pressure .... \n\nfigure it out
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I've died many times in my dreams.  I've bleed to death, been blown up, and even fallen off of cliffs.  It's a very odd experience.  I usually wake up suddenly and feel a bit 'rattled', but I've certainly never died as result of it.  Nor do I take these dreams as a 'bad omen.'  As far as I can tell, dreams have no real meaning unless you want them to have meaning.  Jung was a quack.
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its your muscles doing a final relax before u go to sleep - usually because you arent properly asleep then they are still `on call` for any reactions !  Hence twitching in your sleep , like your falling off a cliff or something , it doesnt happen when your fully asleep.