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Why do some dreams cause a physical response? Like after a bad dream waking up with the heart racing?

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Why do some dreams cause a physical response? Like after a bad dream waking up with the heart racing?

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A. Even though our bodies are paralyzed during dreams, our involuntary body responses including breathing and heart rate still respond. When something happens in a dream, we think it s real, and so we can get scared and nervous just like we do in real life.