I am not sure that "dream reactions" is quite right, I said reactions to dream content. But, the root causes of heart attacks are often physical conditioning, facilitated by an external trigger.
There is something more interesting however and that is a cathartic experience triggered by psychological changes brought about by lucid dreaming. One's psychological foundation depends a great deal on learned experience, and as learning actually changes synaptic pathways, it is hard wired. The real psychological changes brought about by lucid dreaming can lead to events in which the mind must actually destroy synaptic pathways because of conflict with what one learns.
The danger in this is that one might seek professional care and the drugs prescribed may interupt a natural and quite frankly mechanical processes. The events are quite intense, and if one does not understand, quite scary. I have, early in my life gone through two of these. The second one, I saw it coming and simply rode it out. The main effects last about three days. Secondary effects can last for months.
The depth of these, of course depends upon one's past experience.
When it was written that at the time of the awakening of man's mind the world will be turned upside down, the reference was to more than doctrinal understanding, but real psychological changes. These changes are not unknown to science, it is known that there are two fundamental methods of processing information. Very high IQ people process information by, as Plato pointed out, the use of standards, definitions. One can see the difference in set theory, the two methods of constructing a set, enumeration and definition. Simpler minds use enumeration, and cannot change, the distinction is effected on a biological level, however, people born with the ability into society as it is today, never learn to exercise thought through definition.
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