If you're active in your dream, while sleeping, can it physically affect you?
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Oh definately.  To the brain, you are really experiencing what is going on in the dream...well, sort of.  Anyway, it is not uncommon to have muscle contractions while sleeping in response to dreams.
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Yes I believe there is a great deal of significance to dreams. Your mind is giving you clues while you are asleep to help you through issues in your waking life. They may not be major things, some can be pretty petty. \n  There is a reason for the cliche "Let me sleep on it"\n  Your dreams contain many symbols and when analyzed can help you understand many things that may be happening in your life. Things that while you are awake you may not even be aware of.\n There are many excelllent dream dictionaries and such available through any bookstore, online and in the malls.\n Online websites are rather limited but can help with some quick analysis.\n Dream on !
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If we are actually spirits in human bodies, I think the the constraints existing in our physical universe need to be taken away for a period at night.  If your body needs physical activity as it does during the day, the spirit needs activity as well, but without the existence of gravity, having to breathe, having consequences, etc.  After all, in a dream, if you don't like your boss, you can throw a pie in his face and still have a job in the morning.  So dreams may be a spirit's way of exercising while the body is at rest.  We do know dreaming is critical to life, and if it is "turned off" with drugs or fatique or whatever, it very negatively affects life.
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that is your body's reminder to you that you need to move!\n\nusually when that happens, there is a loss of blood circulation from that area, and it "falls asleep." it's a painful reminder sent to us by our muscle tissue that it needs oxygen!
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In my case, i'm actually fully awake and can hear everything that's going on around me, i just can move, speak or open my eyes.  The first few times it happened, it scared the whey out of me.  I still find it frightening.\n\nI did some research on it and while the people on here that have said it is part of our defense mechanism to keep us from acting out dreams and thereby harming ourselves or others, are correct, the sleep paralysis is actually different in that we are not dreaming when it happens.\n\nYou can use any and/or all of the search engines available and find quite a bit of information on it.\n\nOne of the things i find most helpful is a tip i read on one of the sites.  It said to rapidly move your eyes back and forth or to try moving your feet.  While these don't always work, i have found that sometimes they do and when they do work, i can bring myself out of it.\n\nAnother thing i do is try not to sleep during the day if i'm home alone.  In my case, it happens if i nap; but, because of some other health issues, i nap a lot.  So, if i have to sleep during the day, i will either do it while my husband is home or i'll call my sister or a friend ~ in any case, i ask someone to either come in or call after an hour and wake me up.\n\nThere are some that associate sleep paralysis with narcolepsy, so you might want to use the available search engines and do some research.\n\nFOR THE PERSON WITH THE NECK PROBLEMS:  Could you please explain how it is related to your neck problems?  I, too, have neck problems and i'm always wanting to learn more about the sleep paralysis.
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Very likely. Dreams are a window straight into your sub-concious so depending on the question, you may well receive an answer to something...
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Yes. It is called"Lucid Dreaming"\n\nCheck out;\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2005-38,GGLR:en&q=Lucid+Dreaming
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I think it can.  I have not had nightmares, yet.  But my dreams are very vivid.  Sometimes it's hard to tell if something happened or if it was a dream.. :)
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being unable to move in your dream could indicate a situation in your waking life in which you feel helpless in or unable to act in. The darkness in your dream could represent something that you are unwilling to see in your waking life or it can also suggest subconcience depression or your negative side. The devil in your dreams indicates a problem that you may need to confront in your waking life. Maybe something with a friend or a family member or just something personal. Also if you are religious you can pray right before you go to bed asking jesus to help you in your dreams and to help you sleep with peacefull dreams. If you talk to him and call on his name he will not turn his back on you.
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You might have sleep apnea.  This would cause your heart to pound as your oxygen level would go down and your heart would race to bring it back up.  If not, could you have been having a nightmare and not remember it?  You may have just been dreaming.  I dream that I wake up only to realize that it was part of a dream and that I wasn't really awake.  I don't mean to minimize your terror or worry just something I thought of.
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You might be been in a sleep state where your mind is awake but your body is paralysed. This is a natural mechanism of the body to prevent you from acting out your dreams. You can get out this state easily by wishing to move a small part of your body eg: a finger or toe.\n\nIf you are strong believer of the paranormal, get a priest, medicne man or a vodoo master to give you some advise.
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In real life I find it very unlikely, but  in your dreams it can totally happen. IT Doesn't hurt to dream with Vin Diesel's biceps.
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There is no way of controlling dreams.  Dreams only occur in deep REM when you are very relxed, and they could originate from what you ate, are worried about, etc.
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Basically, dreams are caused by REM or Rapid Eye Movement. Brain activity changes with sleep in four different patterns, ranging from light sleep (you can be woken up at any time) to really deep sleep (a bomb couldn't wake you). It is said that REM or dreams begin from Level 3 onwards, and goes into short 10-15 minute lapses before it slows down and lowers itself to Level 2 brain activity (which is half-asleep and half-awake). It will happen over 7-8 times in a night.\n\nDreams on the other hand are basically imagination - and basic brain activity that result in images. They could be your thoughts, or your worries, or anything you make of. That's why, people usually relate dreams to the things that are happening in their life.\n\nHope this helps!
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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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Usually dreams are influenced by pictures, movies, books, conversations, music, or others means of communication that you have been actively involved in for the past 24 hours before you slept.\n\nIt is mere coincidence that some if not all of your dreams came true.\n\nDon't dwell too much on whether your dreams will come true or not. Just focus on clean living and pray that God will bless your life no matter what dreams you have.
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Many, many times.  The first few times was kind of scary, now not so much.  When you sleep, your body actually produces a chemical so that you don't act out your dreams.  (There is usually a deficiency of some sort in "sleepwalkers" for instance.)\n\nYou can actually learn to control when this happens.  The key is to try and "stay awake", even as you "fall asleep".\nI know it sounds weird, but I've done this many times.  It takes some practice, but it can be done.  Just tell yourself, over and over while you're a drifting off into sleepy land to "wake" only in your mind.  Don't move around.  Only try moving after you are actually asleep.  If you can't move your body (arms, legs, etc.), but you "know" you are awake, you are almost in control.  The next step is to "leave" your body, then you are in total control.