Why do I physically experience what happens to me in my dreams? (Enigma pls answer!)?

What you described sounds very much like physiological effects being a trigger for your dreams. Rather than the dream being the thing that has caused the following physical effect, your mind may already be aware (while you're asleep) of something going on (e.g. the pains in your legs, pain in the area you were "shot"), and it then turns it into a dream scenario.

As for your drowning dream, the opposite could apply; the dream could be so intense that on waking it's still fresh in your mind and for a split second you continue to try and catch your breath, which is why you find yourself gasping.

So it's mostly likely that with the waking feelings of pain, arousal, etc. these feelings were already present but during sleep, and your subconscious has turned them into an image/created symbolisation for them.

There is a possibility that the dream was so intense that you imagined you could feel these things when you awoke. But in this instance it would be just in your mind and you would probably be aware of this after a moment or two.

Hope this has helped.

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There are two schools of thought here - mainly chicken and egg.

Firstly you may be very sensitive to psychosymatic experiences and therefore dreams will have a greater effect on you than other people. Question: if someone says they are cold do you also start to feel cold? - the dream comes before the effect

Secondly, the dreams may be a reaction to what you're experiencing. Get pins and needles, dream of having your foot amputated, wet the bed, dream of falling in a river, etc. - the effect comes before the dream.

I think this is one of two things. Either your mind is convinced by your dream and you are therefore experiencing a similar phenomenon. Or, it has been proven that external phenomenon infiltrate you dreams, so perhaps the pain or arousal or other feelings cause your dreams.

There is a kind of dreaming that some people naturally have or others are hypnotised into having: I can't remember the actual word but it means they are really realistic. I'm sorry I cannot remember the word, but there is nothing you can do about it!

This is how you experience the same things when you're awake. Everything that seems to take place out there, takes place inside your brain. It's what "you" use to interpret this dimension. If you recall an event when awake you feel it, even though it's just a memory.

You have an over reactive imagination, which can cause your mind to think something is real, even when its part of your brain that made it up.

1 2 Freddys coming for you 3 4 better lock your door 5 6 get a crucifix ha ha ha ha ha ha your dead.

Neo - "I thought it wasn't real"

Morpheus - "Your mind makes it real"