Nightmares

A dream is supposed to tell you how you really feel is it not? Then why am I having nightmares so realistic. I was sleeping calmly one minute, the next something pokes me hard in the ribs, it felt so real that I jumped and I had to look all around, I am not the kind of person that gets scared easily but I’m not used to being poked in the middle of the night so I freaked, I have had experiences like that when I was five but that was a long time ago and I thought it was just my imagination, I would wake up with big scratches all over my stomach but my parents said I was the one that scratched myself at night , the thing is that I don’t know if it was or not ,what I do know is that what happened that night  felt so real it still gives me goose bumps and then theirs the dreams where I fall of a cliff or some sort of mountain, but the one that I will not forget is the one were I’m standing on some metal structure surrounded by water and everyone is falling of while I just stand their un able to help or speak to tell them to hold on, it felt horrible to see them drowning and screaming for help and I wonder why I did not fall with them. It was more like I was looking at them from behind a veil yet was standing in the same place. There is more weird dreams I’ve had some are not so memorable. Two months ago I had a dream were I was dressed like back in the medieval times big red puffy dress, I was standing in a dark hall with my aunt looking at a painting on the wall of a very ugly dog, I know it was me in the dream but the person didn’t look like me, anyway I was telling my aunt that the dog was the ugliest dog I had ever seen and she replied that I shouldn’t say that because the dog could have bin me in my past life then she walked away. I still don’t know what that means but it got me thinking allot about the possibility of the meaning. Maybe it means that I’m changing in some way and I should fix that before I do something I regret or it means that I’m judging people wrongly, maybe its just a normal weird dream like everyone else thinks but I know it happened for a reason maybe I watched a movie before that triggered me to dream about that but I honestly don’t remember.