Vivid dreams can wake you and make it hard to get back to sleep. And you might not sleep well if you’re too focused on lucid dreaming. Confusion, delirium, and hallucinations. In people who have certain mental health disorders, lucid dreams may blur the line between what’s real and what’s imagined.

Olfactory and gustatory sensations occurred in approximately 1% of all dream reports. A significantly greater percentage of women than men reported one or more dreams containing references to olfactory sensations.

If you think you’re seeing — or smelling, hearing, tasting, or feeling — things when you’re asleep, you may not be dreaming. It’s possible you’re experiencing hypnagogic hallucinations. These can occur in the consciousness state between waking and sleeping. As a result, these hallucinations often cause fear.

No, with the possible exception of a coma. Dreams are caused by our brains, so as long as you have the capacity to wake up, you will.

Dying in a dream is a stressful event, which causes your brain to release adrenaline. You can’t sleep and have an adrenaline rush at the same time so you wake up. These dreams where you die and wake up are usually more memorable due to the fact that you wake up whereas most people don’t remember 95% of their dreams.

When someone dies in your dream — whether it’s a loved one or a stranger — it’s almost always upsetting, explains Lauri Loewenberg, a dream analyst. “Death in dreams actually means there’s some sort of change or ending happening in your life.

Visitation dreams can be very vivid and the dreamer may feel that the deceased loved one was really present. These dreams are so realistic that you can smell, feel, and hear your loved one. These real-feeling dreams are likely to be examples of your deceased loved one reaching out to contact you.