Types of dreams:
- Nightmares – An unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety, disgust or sadness. The dream may contain situations of discomfort, psychological or physical terror, or panic.
- Falling – The feeling of falling through the air while dreaming is a frequent theme that has emerged from dream research.
- Lucid dreams – A type of dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming while they are dreaming. It is a trainable skill.
- False awakening – A vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep, while the dreamer in reality continues to sleep. After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing daily morning routine such as showering, cooking, cleaning, eating, and using the bathroom.
- Recurring dream – A dream which is experienced repeatedly over a long period. They can be pleasant or nightmarish and unique to the person and their experiences.
- Daydreaming – The stream of consciousness that detaches from current, external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction. When thoughts move to a different place while daydreaming it’s referred to as mind wandering.
- Precognition – The purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience.
- Astral projection – A term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light, through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout the astral plane.