Taking a Look at Dreams

Ninety percent of the time when you are falling asleep you will have a dream that you are walking along a cliff and you accidently slip and fall off the edge and it seems like you are falling forever. When you have already been sleeping for a while and you have this falling dream, it means you are losing grip of something important or you have a fear of an event coming up in the future that you can’t stop thinking about and you keep thinking you are going to fail.
Writing down your dreams every time you have one and wake up remembering it is a good idea because you can look back at the dream and think about why you might have had that dream and what was going on in your life when that dream occurred. Within five minutes after you wake up half of your dream is forgotten and after ten minutes of being awake, over ninety percent of your dream is forgotten. Going back to sleep after a bad dream is never easy, so thinking about something good and not scary is a good way of falling back to sleep and not worrying about waking up again that night with another bad dream.
Bad dreams are realistic, disturbing dreams that scare you until you are awaken from the deep sleep you were in. Bad dreams usually occur during REM which means Rapid Eye Movement. REM usually occupies twenty to twenty- five percent of your total sleep that you get in one night which is about ninety to one hundred and twenty minutes. Your body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain in order to prevent the movements, which occur in the dream from causing any physical movement of the body. The body can move at the beginning of your sleep or end of your sleep. If you are going through a tough time in your life or something is depressing you, you are more than likel...

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...ng him alive and he wasn’t awake. About two weeks after he passed away, I started having horrible dreams about him. He was alive in the dreams, but my grandpa being alive in them wasn’t the happy man I remember; he was furious. I kept having these dreams until I went to his grave and sat down and talked to him. The dreams started to go away and it seemed to get better after that.
Dreams are a mystery on how they work. No one really knows how they work and how they make such a big impact on our lives. The more you think about dreaming the weirder the dreams seem to be. Writing down your dreams is the best way to think about your dreams, try to forget about your dreams, or think of ways you can have more of the dream. I have heard if you start to fall in your sleep to not worry because you cannot die in your dreams, and if you do, you die in your real life.