are you dreaming in a coma?
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Patients in a coma appear unconscious. They do not respond to touch, sound or pain, and cannot be awakened. Their brains often show no signs of the normal sleep-wakefulness cycle, which means they are unlikely to be dreaming. ... Whether they dream or not probably depends on the cause of the coma.
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What are hypnagogic hallucinations? If you think you're seeing — or smelling, hearing, tasting, or feeling — things when you're asleep, you may not be dreaming. It's possible you're experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations. These can occur in the consciousness state between waking and sleeping.
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Patients in a vegetative state are awake, breathe on their own, and seem to go in and out of sleep. But they do not respond to what is happening around them and exhibit no signs of conscious awareness. With communication impossible, friends and family are left wondering if the patients even know they are there.
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For a person, this dream is a warning: it's time to reconsider the values of life and own position, clear thoughts and feelings. If you suffer from a severe stroke, in reality you have committed a bad deed and reproach yourself for a moment of weakness.
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In your real life, you are probably being forced into an action that you don't want to take. Either you are currently being forced to take that action, or you have a fear that you might be forced in the near future. This dream appears to be about lack of control more than anything else.
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To dream that you cannot open your eyes, indicates that there is a waking situation that you are just plain refusing to see or acknowledge. ... So in dreaming that you are trying to open your eyes, your mind may actually be telling you to really open your eyes to the point where you actually wake up.
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Since, in your dream, you are 'having a child,' that might mean that you feel that hope has a new beginning in your life, or innocence does. Your unconscious may feel that you have begun trying to escape from the responsibilities you have.
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it just means that you don't remember your dreams. Years ago this was proven in a laboratory, were people who said they had no dreams, or woken when they had rapid eye movements, and then they admitted they were dreaming. Another thing this means is that your sleeping brain is doing what it's supposed to do.
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To dream that you are dreaming can mean a lack of attention to everyday affairs. It can also suggest you are only dreaming, only imagining, or that you haven't woken up to something. But more likely it is a way to hide feelings we do not wish to acknowledge.
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But you have your most vivid dreams during a phase called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, when your brain is most active. Some experts say we dream at least four to six times a night. A lucid dream is one in which you know you're dreaming. ... Lucid dreaming is a brain state between REM sleep and being awake.
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The easiest way to tell if you're dreaming is to practice checking if you're dreaming while you're awake. That way, it will become a habit and you'll start doing reality checks in your dreams! If everything looks and seems normal, then you're awake. However, if things are slightly off, it could mean you're dreaming!
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Dreaming about seeing or witnessing that someone is injured in a car accident; means that you cannot control the action of others. They have to live with the consequences of their own decisions. You may or may not know the person involved in the accident in the dream.
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Dreams don't mean things. ... To dream of killing someone or that you are being murdered may suggest that your unconscious is trying to kill off an unpleasant or unneeded aspect of yourself. Dreams about murder may be releasing repressed rage or anger towards someone or something, possibly yourself.
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It can mean that you are experiencing a strong emotion while awake, as love or fear or anger. I often dream with people I really care about or people I'm upset with, and the dreams are always feel pretty real.
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We tend to dream more during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when the brain is most awake. ... If you wake up during REM sleep, it can also, apparently, make it feel more realistic.
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The dream within a dream may be a hybrid sleep-wake state of consciousness. The neuroscience of sleep and dreams teaches us that there are three basic brain states: waking, REM (rapid eye movement), and non-REM (NREM) sleep. ... For example, sleep paralysis represents a hybrid of REM and waking.
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Dream About Being Attacked or Bitten by Zombie To dream that zombie bites you in the dream, and you know that you will turn into zombies yourself shortly after. It reflects that you have been forced into a difficult situation where you have to let go of your hopes and dreams in the waking life.