Do Dreams Mean Anything? Why Do I Feel Like I’m Falling? Or Wake Up Paralyzed? We Asked Experts.

Dreaming is widely considered a universal human experience. “We all dream every night,” even if we might not recall it, said sleep expert David Neubauer, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Despite the ubiquity of dreams, however, they are often still shrouded in mystery.