Have you ever...

Have you ever had such a realistic dream that you reacted to it consciously?

I had a dream like that years ago about my parents' dog. In the dream the dog had been possessed by some evil coyote spirit and was trying to kill the family. I would look into the backyard and see her eyes glowing and then her dog form would flicker into the evil coyote form and back. When I came downstairs someone had let her in the house (abnormal) and I was trying to convince them to lock her outside. She gave me an evil coyote smirk and I was terrified!

When I awoke from the dream my heart was racing and I was wracked with anxiety about this evil coyote spirit taking over our family dog! I turned on the lights and scrunched myself into the corner of my bed against a wall and wrapped up in pillows and blankets. I hardly slept the rest of the night just trying to calm myself down and the next morning-even after I had reassured myself that it was all a dream-I jumped when I saw the family dog in the backyard. I was startled so much that the family noticed and I had to explain my nightmare!

Well this morning during a nap I had another dream that had me actin' funny in real life.

This dream involved the fiance and I going to the mall and shopping clearance racks. Not an entirely alien concept but the store we were in had a huge blue flame flickering in an odd fixture at the ceiling above a open space in the floor of the store.

There was a poster about "planet-something something" and it showed a huge jet-like engine and I realized that the blue flame was like this contraption idling. One of the store keepers and my fiance wandered off to go the bathroom as the female store keeper told me more about the device and how it would magnify our view into the cosmos so we could see distant planets.

The men returned from the bathroom and she prepared to fire this huge machine. I've been to a demonstration of a jet engine and remembered how loud it was so I clapped my hands over my hears---

Not only did I race to my hands over my ears in the dream, I fumbled my hands out of my blankets and pillows to cover my ears in real life!