• Question: Is it possible to control your dreams.? And why do some dreams feel more realistic than others?

    Asked by drewpeacock to Alan, Murray, Sarah on 25 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 25 Mar 2011:

      I think you can control your dreams if you are sort of partically aware of what is going on, or of you wake up in the morning and fall back asleep, then I think you can kind of influence your dreams. But I don’t know why some dreams feel more real than others, I think it depends on what your dream is about. Like whether something similar has happened to you before because then your mind can make it more real by relating it to your previous experience. A few years ago I was in a serious car accident and for months afterwards I would wake up sitting bolt upright with my arms outstretched like I was gripping onto a steering wheel and swerving to avoid something. It was horrible, but I guess the accident must have been playing on my mind and then it would come back to me while I slept…

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