can ur body react to an experience in your dreams accurately even if you havent had the experience in reality?

Question

for example i had a dream when i was about 7 years old that scared me so much that i become paralysed by the fear.(in the dream) but i was too young to actually know that you can be temporarily paralysed by fear in reality. Another example would be that i definately experienced orgasm in my dreams before i had one with a person in reality.

Answer 1

I've just been chatting to a colleague with regard to this and we have had quite and interesting debate amongst ourselves. Your body can only react to a situation that it has never encountered before by using two possibly schools of thought. The first and generally most believed, is that your body would respond to how your mind may perceive the appropriate reaction to be. We can take spin2021's answer to explain this. What spin says is that when he is shot he plays dead. This is how he envisages the scenario, there are a lot of possible outcomes to this - he could just die or perhaps go into a state of shock and arrest or even try to wrestle with the attacker. The truth with spins answer is we only know what he supposes from what ideas he has acquired through his life, as in reality it has never happened to him and until it does we can't say for certain. The second is our built in reaction to fight or flee. Staying with spin for the moment his built in reaction on being attacked is to flee the situation. He does this by playing dead. So it is possible that if you were to encounter a situation in a dream that you had never had experience of, your mind may try to trigger an automatic response that it thinks is appropriate.
So to recap, if you dream you are experiencing a situation that you have never had whilst awake, it really isn't any different to simply consciously imagining it. All your body can do is perhaps imagine the most appropriate reaction from your perception of this scenario. Just out of interest how many times do we act quite illogically to something quite normal in our dreams. Perhaps, for example you are running in a dream but not moving.
As for your orgasm, this is an automatic in-built bodily reaction. When the appropriate muscles are triggered to spasm you will always orgasm. Now your paralysis, we can re -look at the fight or flee theory for that!

Answer 2

According to Dreamcrowd:

To dream that you are scared, indicates that you are experiencing self-doubt and feelings of incompetence. You may be feeling a lack of control. Anger often masquerades as fear, so also consider issues about which you are angry about in your waking life.


Try posting your dream on Dreamcrowd for a free interpretation.

Answer 3

Yes, it can! I remember I was half awake when I was laying on my stomach. I was sorta dreaming that I was jumping from one table to another, and my leg actually kicked against the bed. Naturally, this woke me up with a trance.

Answer 4

Yes I had a dream that someone put a cord tight around my neck and I couldn't breath and I woke up coughing and chocking,this has never happened to me in real life.

Answer 5

yours sounds like a night terror (the first part)

i had a dream once where i was eating a cream horn, which was being held by me like a baby and was as big as a baby. i was eating it, but in reality i hate cream horns, they make me feel ill. i couldnt eat the next day after waking up, because i felt sick. i remember than dream and feel really ill

Answer 6

they say that if you dream your falling off a building and dont wake up before you hit the ground you can actually die because your brain thinks you died so it tells your heart to stop beating, but since im typing this clearly it has never happened to me so who knows

Answer 7

my first kiss happened interior my house. i replaced into analyzing for my college front examination at that factor (my boyfriend replaced into beside me, helping me the thank you to handle numbers) whilst without notice he stopped, smiled and stared... "could i?", then he leaned to kiss me so delicate. haha. his lips have been so comfortable, we ended up french kissing for just about 0.5 an hour. haha! i did not anticipate that we'd pass THAT a techniques. each kiss feels good exceptionally from the single you like / love.

Answer 8

yes. when you sleep your body releases a neuron that slightly paralyzes you . when you wake suddenly it can take a moment or two for your body to wash it out. and yes wet dreams do happen i had one when i was fifteen. its all normal stuff.

Answer 9

Wet dreams are common. As is learning to erect tents in your sleep.

Answer 10

i honestly dnt hav a clue but ya know... sounds reasonable to me! xx