Movement in your dreams

When you move in your dreams, whatever it may be that you are doing. Like walking, running, picking up something, throwing, anything.


Have you ever been told that you exhibit these symptoms like flailing your arms or actually moving your legs around while asleep from someone else observing you? Or you know you were moving around in reality?
It's kind of weird.


Like a few examples from me:
1) This morning before I woke up, I was digging furiously in the soil looking for some bullet shell casing, I don't remember why. When I woke up, I found my arms crossed on the chest but they were very tired.

2) There was this one time I was attempting to fight someone using hand to hand self defense, when I was trying to kick some villain, it was really hard to move my legs like it was underwater. I woke up when I kicked the wall.

3) I once was dreaming I was getting shot from behind by (Ok, don't laugh, Arnold Schwartznegger) with a machinegun. When I woke up, I found myself in the ledge between the bed and the crack of the wall, no wonder I actually felt some pain.


I have also been told that I mutter or talk a lot in my sleep too, from other's observations, but that's another story.

How about you?

There were a couple of times when I did something like that. It's usually when I'm dreaming immediately before I wake up. I dreamed that I was eating cereal and woke up seeing myself with the gesture as if I was holding a bowl and a spoon. Another time, I was signing and talking to someone. I woke up in the middle of the sentence and saw myself finishing the sentence. Weird.

I know some people who sign a lot in their sleep.

When I was a kid, I used to dream I was being chased by a giant alligator under the ocean. I kept running and looking back and it was like in slow motion and my legs would not move as fast as I wanted.

Not so many dreams in adulthood though.

I snore when I have a cold... but apparently don't talk in sleep.

I occasionally twist and turn if I have bad dreams (which doesn't happen often). I know that because the entire bedsheets are upside down

I don't know if I talk or move in my sleep, but I know my DD does. I was up doing something on the laptop one night and she had fallen asleep on the bed beside me. Then I heard her start whining, and I asked her what was wrong and she goes "I can't get my jelly off the spoon!" I was like WTF? Has she gone mad?

Another time she sat up (with her eyes still closed) and she demanded that I cook her eggs and bacon and this was at 2 in the morning! I said no honey its 2:00 am, you need to go back to bed, then she said the sun was up, that's when I realized she was sleep talking again.

Its amusing when she gets going. She hasn't done it in a while but I'll have my camera ready for when she does it again and I can hopefully film it. It's hilarious.