Could someone help me with my dream?

Question

I donn't need dream translation.
One night when I was sleeping, I was dreaming that I was in a mall. I somehow realized that it was a dream, so I wanted to have fun in there. So I started to run across the mall(but somehow I couldn't control my self), at the same time I was feeling slightly awake.(I couldn't move on my own will, or wake up, but I could feel stuff, it was so weird.)
The thing is, when I started to run, I couldn't see anything in my dream. (It was black) but I could still FEEL that I was running. As I ran faster, I could FEEL MY LEGS SLOWLY FLOATING UP TOWARD THE CEILING. I wanted to stop running but I couldnt control it with my will, but the running soon slowy decreased its speed to a stop, and thats when my legs started to slowly come down. I could even feel the landing of my feet to the bed.
Then I woke up. I was so freaked out. Was I halucinatiung? I was so sure they were rising. Any reasonable or scientific explanation? Sorry its so long.

i dont do drugs...

Answer 1

No, you found out that the ONLY WAY YOU COULD "STAY IN CONTROL, was to give up control.

In other words, this is all a "control" issue.

First, you start out running in black, and your not even sure your running, and "you can't control it." Faster you ran, you could feel your legs moving UP and AWAY. As YOU SLOW DOWN, your legs come down until you "hit" the bed.

So you start out not being able to move, feeling out of control, yet slightly awake, slightly lucid. You start running and things get out of control even MORE. You slow down and everything starts coming together. Finally you stop and everything is fine.

So, just realize that sometimes "in order to be in "control" we have to "give up control" and just let life HAPPEN to us. We can't plan for life, it just happens, while we plan OUR DAY.

Good luck!

Answer 2

It sounds like a lucid dream, and the same kind of mechanism as is found in sleepwalking. Sleep walking isn't very well understood, but it's believed that the part of the brain that is supposed to inhibit movement during sleep to prevent us from acting out our dreams does not function correctly. Lesser examples of this include swinging an arm out when dreaming of golf, or kicking when dreaming of football.

It is very possible that your dream was a lucid dream. I have these, and sometimes I know I'm dreaming but cannot wake myself. This can be rather scary, as I know I'm asleep, and obviously posses conscious desires, e.g to wake or manipulate the dream to make it more favourable, but am trapped in the dreamscape. This sounds similar to your experience, and I understand how it could be disconcerting for you.

It is possible, as I previously described, that because your dream was so lucid, your body was not inhibited as it should have been, and in fact you did raise your legs in your sleep. If they were raised for a while, this may have heightened the sensation in your dream by adding a tingling that you felt in reality, as your blood flow was reduced by the position. You may have been sleeping lightly at this point, or more comsciously aware of your body because of the lucid dreaming, and thus have recognised when your feet returned to your bed.

You may have heard that lucid dreams are where you can explore them yourself, but this takes practice, so don't dismiss this idea on those grounds.

That's my explanation anyway.

Answer 3

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary

I know you didnt want a translation, but this is what I use when I can't figure dreams out.

How do you KNOW that you were really feeling the bed.... or if you were just dreaming that you were dreaming and felt the bed? It wouldve been so much better if you woke up and your legs were still up....then you could be sure.

Answer 4

I've had something similar happen to me, but it had to do with laughing. In my dream I was laughing at something funny, and then i was somewhere in between and realized that I was laughing, but couldn't really stop for a while, even though i knew it was just a dream and I couldn't really remember why i was laughing. It was weird. My girlfriend even told me that I was laughing in my sleep.

Anywho, I don't think you were halucinating. I think the brain works in weird ways. And somewhere between the conscious and subconscious, your brain functioned in some way that affected not only your dream, but your body.

Answer 5

sure.. I had a dream earlier wherein I had deja vu with regard to a similar dream. interior the dream I all of sudden felt like I had dreamed it earlier and then I grew to grow to be conscious i became into dreaming which became into much extra insane! I nonetheless went for the period of the dream yet I knew each thing that became into going to take place earlier it did as a results of fact i ought to bear in mind dreaming it earlier.. then i presumed I awakened yet I wasn't unsleeping incredibly i became into nonetheless drowsing, I in simple terms stopped being conscious.. and that i dreamed that i became into questioning approximately my dream deja vu, and desires interior desires and what i'd do when I awakened.. then i in my opinion awakened and that i became into perplexed... lol

Answer 6

You were dreaming and sometimes our dreams seems real but the fact is when you woke up, you were in bed and not in a mall.

Answer 7

i don't think you were hallucinating. this reminds me of those dreams you have when you're "falling" and you can feel it so vividly, but then you just wake up terrified.

i think it was a lucid dream, when you realize in your dream you're dreaming but it feels real somehow. just read below huh?

i don't know if there's any explanation for your dream.

Answer 8

that thing about being dreaming but also being not all the way aslep only happens to me when im really tired and pass out at work. like being aware of work going on around you and hearing people talking, but also being asleep.

Answer 9

it sounds lie u were lucid dreaming. thats when u know your dreaming. also, sounds like a littl astrological traveling too, im impressed. but u may not believe in though kind of things.

Answer 10

Sounds kinda scary to me, were you drinking or or drugs earlier?? Not trying to be funny, serious question. That could maybe affect your dreams.