I fell unconcious and got a dream withing few minutes?

[munish259272]

Hi, I never new that i had some kind of phobia or fear. but in year 2004 i went for a blood donation and funny thing happened. i started feeling something weary in my head(as if i have been drugged) when i saw a guy bleeding from his hand(a lot of blood) so i went took a chair and sat down but within a minute or some seconds i fell down on floor completely unconscious.and had this dream. "i am going inside a train and a big dragon with wings is flying over the train and i was watching it.it seemed like it was trying to catch me i woke up and found myself on the ground surrounded by everybody and the doc was rubbing my chest with ice cubes and had no idea how i got down on the ground and who removed my shirt. can somebody explain this phenomena. i don't know how someone could get into a REM state where dreams occur within a short period of time while it takes hours to get to this state while normal sleep.

[dutchraptor]

Well firstly it is possible to dream in Non-REM stages of sleep, secondly when people take naps during the day they often fall straight into a dream (a lot of DreamViews members actually lucid dream during naps). Thirdly usually when we faint we fall straight into late stage of sleep, the function of this is to "reset" the brain, for survival reasons you must as quickly as possible regain consciousness which is a likely reason why we fall into this dreaming state. I don't know much of the exact reasons other than what roughly happens. Point is there are many times when we can skip the first few stages of sleep and enter a dream straight away.

[Woodstock]

i don't know how someone could get into a REM state where dreams occur within a short period of time while it takes hours to get to this state while normal sleep. I accidentally found that meditation can help you have lucid dreams at the beginning of the night, no sleep before it. If you click on the link in my signature, there are a few other people who have done the same thing. We don't know if they were nREM or if you can control REM stages, but we do know that dreams don't only happen during a normal REM stage.