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Well, have any of you ever seen The Matrix? Remember when Morpheus was explaining Neo about how the mind and body are directly linked and how whatever happens to you in the Matrix (dreams) will directly affect your body in the real world (reality)? Having intense dreams like you guys described can stimulate the mind so much that it sends signals to your body that mimic the feeling you've felt in your dreams. The thing about dreams, though, is that your mind does not believe it's 100% real, and thus you wake up or can force yourself to awaken (I've done it many times).
The hardest thing to do, is to realize that you are dreaming. When you are being chased by something/someone, or see a scary face through the window, what do you feel? Panic. Your heart starts racing both in the dream and in reality, you get a rush of blood throughout your whole body, you believe what you see and you cannot stop it. The more you are afraid of the dream, the more intense the sensation you feel. Forcing yourself back awake is realizing that there is a way out somehow, that what you're experiencing has a way of being stopped. Realizing that thought further will place you in a state of lucid dreaming. Once you command yourself to calm down, the nightmare will end.
The closest I've gotten to stopping the nightmare is when I once stopped running from this omnious black cloud that was chasing me, facing it, and...waking up in panic. My heart was racing for half an hour after that.
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Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques
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