Originally Posted by
CFTraveler
Sometimes a physical stimulus will create a dream image- it's not that it's not happening, it's that something else is happening that your subconscious is reinterpreting and giving form. One time I was dreaming/being in paralysis that a beautiful butterfly was in my ear. It was so uncomfortable it made me wake up. When I woke up I realized it was a mosquito. So the bug 'was' there, but it was not what the image was.
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