Is it normal to dream that you're falling?

sometimes i have dreams where i trip or fall, and i would suddenly wake up while suddenly jerking

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94% Normal
Based on 54 votes (51 yes)
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  • this would be cool if it was in a lucid dream

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  • honeybear

    Happens to me but not often. Wake up heart beating fast. Wonder why is that?

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  • Holy crap I thought that It was just me!!!

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  • cosmiccitizen

    Yes its very normal. Here's what I found that explains why. It says:

    "One’s Conscious Awareness refreshes itself when it travels beyond the constraints of one’s 3rd dimensional physical body during the Rapid Eye Movement, (REM), portion of the human sleep cycle. During REM sleep, one’s Conscious Awareness is free to enter the Mind of one’s Emotional Body and travel to various places, observing events around the world.

    When young, spiritually oriented people have a tendency to travel far and explore distant locations within the joy filled energies of their permanent Emotional Bodies and escape the happy/unhappy emotional constraints of their temporary physical body. As one travels in Conscious Awareness, part of one’s 4th dimensional Emotional Body’s Mind remains energetically connected to one’s 3rd dimensional physical body’s brain.

    In this way, if any danger threatens one’s physical body while in REM sleep, one’s Conscious Awareness and Emotional Body can immediately return to one’s physical body. Therefore, if a loud noise occurs while one is in REM sleep, one’s brain suddenly becomes alert and one’s Conscious Awareness immediately returns to one’s physical body.

    This entire event is communicated by one’s Mind to one’s brain, but one’s 3rd dimensional brain is unable to understand 4th dimensional out of body experiences. Thus, all the brain remembers is a “dream” that one was falling from a great height and woke up just before one’s body hits the ground. In this manner, one wakes up startled and confused from such a “dream” because the original noise and rapid return of one’s Conscious Awareness to one’s physical body flooded one’s body with “fight or flight” adrenaline."

    Source: www.merkaba.org/out-of-body-experience-of-falling-from-a-great-height-in-a-dream/

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  • justanormalgirl

    Omg I do that allll the time haha one time I took a nap after a big exam where we just had to sit there and I like jerked awake gahah

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  • TabooMasterWriter

    i dream that too!!! LOL if everyone dreams it means its normal :)

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  • jrphotographer

    Happens a lot

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  • Shiloh128964

    Falling within your dream is said to be a sign of anxiety and vulnerability. It can also symbolize a decline in your energy or status. Falling can sometimes be an omen of misfortune to come, or represent submission to the control of another in, for example, sexual intercourse. Dreams of falling often occur during times of upheaval or Changes of great magnitude in your life.

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  • hotchickie81

    Happens to me frequently!

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  • I hear people die from those type of dreams.
    Cause it gets so intense and the heart beat a lot or something like that

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  • Sometimes your dreams mean something you may be stressed or anxious when you go to bed

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  • Eoso

    Happens all the time

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  • with me the ground just disapears and i fall for 3 seconds. then i feel like something just fell that distance inside me.

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  • Karategurl

    It's very normal. I would think just about everyone has those dreams.

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  • Aydew83

    oh me too you'll be startled awake

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  • badlilbraud101

    Its totally normal. Well its kinda hard to explain, but having that dream kinda means like your about to die, because if you dont wake up or move so you wont fall frm your dream, and you keep falling, it actually means your really dead. Thats why you move or jerk yourself to wake up. Yea kinda complicated. (:

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