Well I was just thinking...

When I was younger I can remember sometimes having dreams about just continuous falling... It felt so very VERY life like, the feeling of falling got so bad that I ended up waking myself up every time... I can remember this happening a few times, not just that once.

My question is, do these dreams mean something? and would this be a type of LD because I could feel how the fall felt and I ended up waking myself up? Can people normally wake themselves up in a normal dream without having to be Lucid? It felt so very real like I can still remember it and that must of been about 9 years ago when I was about 7.

Please reply because this has just started to bug me and now I'm curious.