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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Question (dreams)
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Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 13:02:59 EDT
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Bob Schleicher (ihuxk!rs55611 (!)) writes:
	... During the dream it would feel as if I was falling for minutes.
	I'd then wake up at the "moment of impact" on the floor next to the bed.
	Now ...  Did the entire falling part of the dream really occur in the
	second or so that I was actually falling out of bed, or did I just fall
	out of bed as a result of thrashing around while falling in my dream?

Interesting, because I think most people wake up IN bed.  (No anecdotes
to the contrary please!)  Anyway, here's a third possible explanation,
which I think is more likely: during the course of sleep your normal
movements take you to the edge of the bed.  You then feel that you are
lying on the edge (after all, your touch sensors are still working),
and the connection with falling is made.  The [falling part of the] dream
then begins, and ends with the actual impact.

A fourth possibility is that the impact does NOT wake you up, but rather
STARTS the [falling part of the] dream, eventually leading to the dreamed
impact which, since you perceive it, does wake you up.

Mark Brader