Falling Dreams

Welcome to your monkey brain. For a loooooooong time we probably slept in trees, where falling isn't a great idea. So it's hardly surprising that our subconscious has bits specifically designed to worry about it a lot, even though we now only have to worry about falling a couple of feet onto the floor.

I don't dream about falling a lot, but I do get quite a few of those moments, just as you've dropped off, when my whole body 'twitches' awake, as if I've just lost my balance and need to recover. I'm clearly descended from a line of pretty wobbly monkeys.

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I only have them if I have fallen asleep somewhere that isn't my bed, like on a train, or just sitting at a table. I had once during a GCSE exam (yes, I had fallen asleep) and I dreamt that a football was flying at my face, I woke up and jolted the table really hard. It was a little embarrassing :p
 
i ushally get falling dreams , but 90% of the time when i hit the bottom my body jumps and wakes me up.

Sleep Talking is win :) my gf does it all the time
 
I've had two or three dreams (that I remember) where I've fallen from great height and actually impacted the ground, then woken up shortly after.

I am not dead.
 
I used to have one all the time trying to kick a damn football. I'd run up to it swing my leg back but then float above it and miss. It just repeated until the dream stopped or I woke up. I sometimes woke up majorly frustrated with it.
 
The falling sensation in dreams is related to a sudden drop in blood pressure as your brain and body relax. If you fall into a gentle sleep then you wake normally but if your bloody pressure drops quickly you get this 'falling' sensation and awake to allow you BP to go back to normal. I have ha da few dreams like this that normally result in my 'jumping' as though startled. Freaks with wife out sometimes hehe :p :D
 
just before nodding off last night, I heard a sharp piercing sound in my ear, really shook me up, was sweating for about 5 mins before getting to sleep :/



awesome 'falling' scene from Buffalo Soldiers


awesome film :)
 
Steameh said:
I used to have one all the time trying to kick a damn football. I'd run up to it swing my leg back but then float above it and miss. It just repeated until the dream stopped or I woke up. I sometimes woke up majorly frustrated with it.
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Never fear! The Dream Master is here!! :)

Vita said:
I heard in such dreams you can die o.O
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Let's address this first with a little common sense. If someone dreamt that they had fallen and hit the ground and -- in real life -- died, how would they relay that information to the living?

Vita said:
Dreams which you are falling to the ground hurtling at great speed, but before you hit the ground you wake up? I used to have them as a kid all the time. I even once hit the ground, then woke up.
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In my experience, falling dreams are caused by something occurring in your life where you feel hopeless. The manner of the fall (and the height) demonstrate just how serious the issue is to you.

For example, if you are in deep doo-doo with the law for doing something stupid, you might make a lunge out of an airplane. But a nasty spill from a ladder or roof might just be recognising your own clumsiness.

Now the trick is what happens after the fall. If you don't surprise and shock yourself into waking up and manage to hit the ground, what happens after that? Were you being pursued by someone and the chase continued (this leads back to the hopeless situation)? Do you just see yourself lying there and people find you and mourn for you? This could be due to neglect from friends and family ('I'll show them' type attitude). Or do you have complete control, take flight again, and do it over and over? This is just ego pulling through (and also the most fun!).

Again, dreams reflect the things that are going on in your life, sometimes with no more meaning than something you saw recently on TV coming to play.

Steameh said:
I used to have one all the time trying to kick a damn football. I'd run up to it swing my leg back but then float above it and miss. It just repeated until the dream stopped or I woke up. I sometimes woke up majorly frustrated with it.
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Charlie Brown? Is that you?! :D
 
Falling dreams are very common.

So are dreams when you're taking a poo on the toilet :)


The only way you can die from a dream is if the shock of something causes you to have a heart attack. So until you hit 60+, no a dream cannot kill you if your healthy.


I used to have a reoccuring dream when I was little, when I was in a small stone garage with friends and we used to run around and start flying. Was great ^^
 
Normally when you feel like you are losing controll of a situation.

And you are asleep during Lucid Dreams, you are just aware you are dreaming. I've spent years studying LD's and have read several books to learn to do it. ;)

Dont worry, if you hit the ground you wont die. This used to be a roumor that went around in Primary Schools lol
 
AtlanticP said:
The falling sensation in dreams is related to a sudden drop in blood pressure as your brain and body relax. If you fall into a gentle sleep then you wake normally but if your bloody pressure drops quickly you get this 'falling' sensation and awake to allow you BP to go back to normal. I have ha da few dreams like this that normally result in my 'jumping' as though startled. Freaks with wife out sometimes hehe :p :D
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That's different from actually having a dream with visual representations of falling, like say off a cliff.
 
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