Hi Guys. I came across this site after looking for a few answers and it looks like the place to be.

I had a dream last night where I was handing a guy a booklet over a counter but accidentally bumped another booklet off the counter and on to the ground. Now at that exact point of hitting the ground, a piece of A4 paper fell off my bed side table onto the ground and I woke up.

The problem is, it took a few seconds to bump the booklet off the counter before it made the sound of hitting the ground. How did my mind know that the external sound was coming or did my subconscious hold onto the sound and only let me physically hear it once it had decided to set up a scenario in the dream.

I've also had gunshots and explosions in dreams that have woken both me and my missus up (so it was an external noise) that also had a lead up to in a dream.

Cheers guys
I hope you can help me understand what happened.
I've always been interested in dreaming but never knew that there were sites dedicated to dreaming.