I used to get those dreams loads when I was a kid. You're right to wonder if it really happened. In fact it did. When you go to sleep, your brain does all its standard maintenance. This requires it to pretty much shut off all your less vital functions, such as movement (otherwise you'd go round sleepwalking all the time etc. However as your awareness isn't completely shut off all the time, you can sometimes be in a partial dream state but still be partly aware. This means when you send signals to your legs to move they are still turned off, but you're aware of it, which you wouldn't normally be.
I think that's about right, anyway. This is what happens to people when they have all these angel dreams, alien abductions etc.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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