Maybe the veil of separation between the inner reality and the outer reality is getting thinner and your higher self is preparing you to handle this adjustment.

In a certain way many people do live in a make believe reality of their imagination where they are constantly worrying about things that have not happened yet. Such a person lives in an imaginary reality.

You are constantly at a crossroad of imagination and reality.

Like an artist, your physical existence is the result on the canvas. Everything else, including the details in your dreams, are your inspiration; to create your art (of physical expression)

You are the master when your imagination contains all that you are experiencing and all that you want to experience.

If your imagination contains all that you DO NOT want to experience, you will be informed of this dis-connect through a constant state of dis - ease.

Keep it long enough and you will be informed in a physical reflection the inner state of your constant dis - ease.

So you can say that someone who is worrying about all the things that might happen to them has confused their dream world to the real world, because what they are worrying about doesn't actually exist in their life yet. (Only in their imagination)

So you can say that MOST people confuse their dream world to the real world and constantly suffer the consequences of this habit.

The only moment that exists is now. The past is but an illusion, even if it really happened, it only exists now in our mind. So dreams after they are drempt are in the past also. We use physical, sensational cues to determine if it is a memory of a real event or of a dream. Sometimes I fly in my dreams and sometimes I have to jump off a cliff or building to get air, and sometimes it seems so real that I pinch myself to make sure I am really dreaming because I wouldn't want to jump if I am not dreaming. So even while in dreams, they can seem so real that it is difficult to tell if it's a dream or reality. However, when I wake up and know that I don't really fly, that that memory is of a dream.

Dreams can be very useful and because I consciously make a point to receive guidance and information through them, I find that I often do. When I wake up and remember something that seems meaningful-as in what you have written about, I ask my guides or "spiritual team" as I think of them, to help me become consciously aware of anything I should know, do or understand.

It is quite amazing what comes through when you spend some quiet time.

For me, it is usually after I make the intention known that I am open and receptive to the answers. And then it seems to be when I am doing something that finds me alone with my thoughts yet monotonous enough that it doesn't require my focused attention-like doing dishes, taking a shower or working in the yard etc. All the sudden, I have an "aha moment" when I get the meaning.

This seems like that it could be a premonition of your future. Please be aware and careful if you happen to be at college and get that weird feeling creeping up on you like, "I have done this before!" Pay attention to that feeling because you could remember the police officer and thus drive a little less carelessly.

I have had this experience as well as the opposite (thinking you dreamt something that actually happened). The actual nature of dreams are an interesting issue. Neville wrote Out of This World where he explained them as a kind of fourth dimensional movement across time.

There was this guy, Dunne, who wrote another book called "An Experiment With Time". The basic idea of Dunne's book is that he had a dream of an accident and shortly after he saw the news of that accident in real life. Intrigued, he made an experiment where he recorded his dreams and then looked for news stories that matched them. He found that his dreams would often predict real events, something most people do not realize simply because they do not pay attention to their dreams.

This other guy, Ian Wilson, did something similar but even crazier. He got into lucid dreaming early in life and then started noticing something disturbing: some of his dreams playing out in real life in exactly the same way he dreamt them. So he did an experiment: when he became lucid in his dreams, he would add a geometrical shape somewhere to see if, in case one of those dreams came true, this would affect waking reality. It turned out that it did. He made a triangle appear on the forehead of one of his co-workers.

It seems that the relation between the dream world and the waking world is not so much one of unreal versus real as it is of a different layer (dimension) of reality. How these two dimensions interact is a topic that more people should discuss.

yes a number of times it happens specially when i have my exams. i find myself dreaming that i have not completed my exam and i start panicking when i get up i feel i have lost it all n then suddenly i realize i was dreaming