The swift breeze pulls you back and your arms flail out to try to catch your balance. Blue sky surrounds you and you look down. Your standing on the very top of a 10 story building, alone and fear pierces your soul. You don’t know what time it is or how you got there. Suddenly, you find yourself falling through mid-air and an overwhelming sense of helplessness overcomes your body, both mentally and physically. The cold, gray concrete gets closer and right when you think you’re in for it, you find yourself sitting up in your bed in a cold sweat. You realize it was only a dream.

                So what are these sensations we experience when we are asleep, what do they mean and why do they happen? According to Discovery Health, dreams happen most in the R.E.M stage, or the deepest stage of sleep in which the eyes move rapidly, the body develops an inconsistent heart rate and the skeletal muscles experience paralysis which occurs to keep us from acting out our dreams.  If we wake up in this stage of sleep, we are most likely to remember our dreams. There are many theories regarding why dreams occur and what they mean. Some say that dreams are our way of working through all of the worry and stress in our lives while others say they are simply brain impulses. Whether or not we know why we have dreams or what they are, the question still arises: what do they mean? There is one way to find out and that is through dream interpretation. The following states some common dreams, according to dreamforth.com, people might have and what they could possibly mean.

• FALLING: When one has a dream that they are falling and they are frightened by it, it could indicate that they may be overwhelmed by a difficult situation and they feel powerless or unbalanced, or they have dreams they have not been able to attain.
• UNDRESSED IN PUBLIC:  Dreams where one is exposed in public can imply that a person feels vulnerability in their lives or holds a fear of exposure to a situation in their lives.
• BEING CHASED: A dream where one is being chased can imply an avoidance of circumstances that a person feels are impossible to overcome or a strong emotion that a person feels is hard to let go of.
• FLYING: Dreams of flying and enjoyment indicate ones sense of empowerment over their lives, overcoming a situation or a new perspective.
• LOSING TEETH: Dreams of losing teeth could mean that one is worried about financial issues, a loss of power over something in one’s life or a fear of getting older.